News on the close of Closed and the open of Open...

Mithrandolir

...and things of that nature



Posted by Patience on the Beta Boards



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Schedule for the End of Closed Beta



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Hi everyone,



Here's a brief outline of what you can expect over the next few days as we transition from Closed to Open Beta:





Monday, March 26:

From 7:00PM - 10:00PM EDT, Turbine admins will be on Brandywine and Meneldor with surprises for the players. (Hint: Bring Minstrels. Lots and lots of Minstrels.)

Tuesday, March 27:

LOTRO game servers will go dark in the morning and will remain closed until Friday. All player characters will be wiped.

Wednesday, March 28:

Beta forums: The beta forums will be brought down in the morning. Accounts created on the Beta forums and associated with either Pre-order or Beta keys will be preserved. All other accounts will be wiped.

Live forums: The live forums (currently located at http://www.lotro.com/forums) will be brought down in the late afternoon, and will not come back up.

If there are any posts which you feel should be saved and/or reposted on the new forums, this is the time to save them!

After March 28th, the beta.lotro.com forums address will no longer be valid, and http://forums.lotro.com will be the link to the only set of official forums. Only Pre-order customers and beta players will be able to post on the public forums. If you had a Closed Beta, Open Beta, or Pre-order account on the beta forums, you will be able to log in and use this account.

Wednesday - Thursday, March 28-29:

The forums will be open to beta players.

Friday, March 30:

Servers go live and Open Beta begins for Pre-order customers! See you in Middle-earth!

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Meghan "Patience" Rodberg

Online Community Manager

The Lord of the Rings Online

"Settle down, Beavis."



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dougmysticey

Woo hoo, Can't wait. So, I think I know the answer but in open beta is it only one character we can carry over to live game or will we be able to have more than one but still with a level cap of 15?

0over0

 

Originally posted by dougmysticey

Woo hoo, Can't wait. So, I think I know the answer but in open beta is it only one character we can carry over to live game or will we be able to have more than one but still with a level cap of 15?

I think it's up to 5 characters. Also, there is no limit on tradeskilling, though it might be hard to get any recipes after awhile with nothing but low-levels on-at least you can bank lots and lots of resources.

And there are no limits on the monster-play creatures.

Mithrandolir

Originally posted by dougmysticey

Woo hoo, Can't wait. So, I think I know the answer but in open beta is it only one character we can carry over to live game or will we be able to have more than one but still with a level cap of 15?

5 characters per server, limited only by the amount of servers