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All Euro Servers Down Again

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in Lord of the Rings Online

For the 3rd time in a week, all the European servers have been down for hours. The current downtime is now running close to 19 hours.

This is starting to look more and more like the fiasco that SOE had when UbiSoft was running the European servers for EQ/EQ2.

And to add insult to injury, those of us playing on non US servers cannot even use the Turbine LOTRO forums.

The US servers have already announced the patch for tomorrow, yet the Euro servers cannot even get the LAST patch to work.

It's deja vu all over again.

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  • ZorvanZorvan Member CommonPosts: 8,912
    Welcome to Codemasters quality.
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    I am starting to see that. I debated whether to go with a US sub, having seen all the problems that SOE had with UbiSoft - with patches running as much as 4 months behind the US servers, and several times the downtime from crashes that the US servers had.

    It is starting to look like my fears were justified.

  • NevarionNevarion Member Posts: 274
    That's good to know, my thanks. Will certainly influence my decision of where to play if.



    Anyway hope you can get back to play any time soon!
  • ZorvanZorvan Member CommonPosts: 8,912
    It's why I suggested to everyone when it was getting close to release to play  the NA version. With any game, the developer is always going to take the most care of their game, compared to someone just raking in money from a license. Also, I just have never had any faith at all in Codemasters, and what you guys are going through is one of the reasons for that.
  • CerionCerion Member Posts: 1,005
    Sorry to hear of the trouble.  Some of my knship ended up playing on Euro Servers (we still keep a common website), so I feel your pain.

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  • Redline65Redline65 Member Posts: 486
    Third time in a week? 19 hours??!! Glad I'm not playing on Codemaster's servers, I'd be furious. It's one thing to be down that much in beta, but you guys are paying customers now.
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    Originally posted by Redline65

    Third time in a week? 19 hours??!! Glad I'm not playing on Codemaster's servers, I'd be furious. It's one thing to be down that much in beta, but you guys are paying customers now.

    The first time they were down over 24 hours. The 2nd "only" about 16 hours. The downtime for this patch is now running over 20 hours, and still gettng the "gee we're sorry, but ..." message when I try to login. And I see that the US servers have another patch scheduled for tomorrow.. the Euro servers cannot even get today's patch to work.

    I am in the US but I finally decided to go with a Euro server because most of my friends from my old guild are there. It is looking more and more like a mistake.

    And I find it insulting that those using the Euro servers cannot even access the Turbine forums.

  • Terminus-EstTerminus-Est Member UncommonPosts: 352
    I am starting to regret taking the lifetime subscription.
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    Euro servers finally up again.. after only 21 hours.

  • altairzqaltairzq Member Posts: 3,811
    So much for the smoothest bug free MMORPG launch ever.
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    Originally posted by altairzq

    So much for the smoothest bug free MMORPG launch ever.
    European Servers are an exception. It is codemasters. The fact that the game is running is amazing for them rofl.
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    Originally posted by altairzq

    So much for the smoothest bug free MMORPG launch ever.



    Turbine is not the problem. The Turbine (US) servers have gone almost without a hitch.

    Codemasters is running the servers in Europe. I just hope this does not turn out to be another fiasco like the SOE/UbiSoft thing was. Another patch in 6 days, so we will see if they can do it in less than 24 hours this time.

    50 hours downtime in the first 6 days is not a good start.

  • altairzqaltairzq Member Posts: 3,811
    OK, my mistake.
  • RattrapRattrap Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 1,599
    Damn. I lost the whole gaming session yesterday .. and even waited by the computer for 3 hours trying to log in



    I hope codemasters recognise this and cash us some free days !

    "Before this battle is over all the world will know that few...stood against many." - King Leonidas

  • JackdogJackdog Member UncommonPosts: 6,321
    I fee sorry for you guys and gals over there, I had a bad feeling the first time I read that Code Masters and Digital Alchemy were going to handling it on that side of the pond. Code Masters needs to get it together or Turbine needs to can their asses.

    I miss DAoC

  • vam345vam345 Member Posts: 4

    They sayed it 1st time that there is big problem with loggin service and they making "temporary" sollution for it. So till it realy fixed ( it didnt happans yet ) i expecting even more downtime...

    Still its poor job from CM not to fix this.

    About 2 week late patch... /speachless

     

    hmm comming to think if this could mean we get June context patch in July... then i will be realy angry.

  • almalexiusalmalexius Member UncommonPosts: 180
    I haven't been playing this game too much so i really didn't notice the problems yet but i couldn't log in yesterday at 21.00. Is this related to the problems? I tried this morning and then it went fine.

    WOW,eq2,Vanguard,WAR,LOTRO,AOC,Rift Aion, SWTOR, TERA.

    Currently playing GW2.

  • RattrapRattrap Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 1,599
    Originally posted by Jackdog

    I fee sorry for you guys and gals over there, I had a bad feeling the first time I read that Code Masters and Digital Alchemy were going to handling it on that side of the pond. Code Masters needs to get it together or Turbine needs to can their asses.
    At least we have RP servers

    "Before this battle is over all the world will know that few...stood against many." - King Leonidas

  • herculeshercules Member UncommonPosts: 4,925

    I posted my concerns just a few days into the pre order launch of EU servers after the almost 1 day it was offline and was met with "its beta(hello its not .its early access" and "everything is cool".

    The reality of it is the LOTRO engine is one of the most solid engines ever build in a mmorpg .But codemasters have done a terrible terrible job handling it.Its like putting a 10 year old in the seat of a ferrari and watching him make the vechile scream on gear 1.

    This guys have poor knowledge of how to handle things and constantly have issues.Also they have included too few servers which means they are overcrowded and a few like shadowbun and evernight are basically crumpling under the pressure .

    Login issues are so numerous that its best to actually count the time it is stable rather then unstable.

    I went for the 6 months plan because i plan to cancel if codemaster do not get their act together by time my free month is over.

  • runedragonrunedragon Member UncommonPosts: 57
    I have had this game for nearly a week and only managed to log in once and play for 2 hours before everything went down.... Not something I am happy about at all.  Codemasters needs their asses kicked.  Loved it while I could play it........ Guess I will be getting a grand totalt of 8 hours play out of the initial 30 days.... And I am gonna be hitting them for it
  • JackdogJackdog Member UncommonPosts: 6,321
    I have a feeling Turbine is not going to put up with this for long. Offt topic but didn't SOE have some issues with EQII at launch in Europe?I can't recall the name of the company they used but it wasn't Codemasters and I could be wrong also. Having a senior moment.

    I miss DAoC

  • SlickShoesSlickShoes Member UncommonPosts: 1,019
    Originally posted by Jackdog

    I have a feeling Turbine is not going to put up with this for long. Offt topic but didn't SOE have some issues with EQII at launch in Europe?I can't recall the name of the company they used but it wasn't Codemasters and I could be wrong also. Having a senior moment.
    It was Ubisoft the guy mentioned it in the first post!



    So far i havent missed any play time as i dont get to even log in until after 9pm at night but i can understand the frustration of other players. I wouldnt imagine turbine will be too happy at codemasters handling of this as it reflects bad on them aswell!

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  • DonnieBrascoDonnieBrasco Member Posts: 1,757

    Yeah, now it was the 4th time, and exactly on those hours when most of us casuals would want to play (btw 7-10 PM).

    I have missed a whole session yesterday that i have carefully planned to have (as I can't play every day...). Dang.

    I found myself playing Guild Wars  :) as at this point I have no other subscriptions for any MMO besides LOTRO...

     

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  • kayleekaylee Member Posts: 32
    All the more reason why i decided to go with the US rather than the European. Sadly the support on most games by European handlers are sorely lacking ...
  • OBK1OBK1 Member Posts: 637

    Turbine is not free from guilt, they hired Codemasters for this job, I surely hope they put some pressure on them! I do think a permanent fix will come pretty soon though, my guess is that the game is a lot more popular than Codemasters anticipated and they pay for not being prepared. Once they get the correct size of their server park we should be alright in Europe as well.

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