LOTRO, DDO Servers Still Down After Days Of Instability

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LOTRO, DDO Servers Still Down After Days Of Instability

Players of The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online have had a rough go of it the past few days as server instability has wrecked havoc on Standing Stone Games' services.

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alkarionlog

well last time I saw this issue on a game they closed the said game, because they couldn't bother to fix it

Erinak1

alkarionlog said:

well last time I saw this issue on a game they closed the said game, because they couldn't bother to fix it

Considering both games together earnt them over $20 mil last year, I imagine they will be pretty eager to fix it.

Amathe

Server says to players - you shall not pass!

Nanbino

Shut it off. Dedicated private servers run better than this corporate money grab.

xpsync

I only became aware of this today, WHOLLY SHIT, if i was a lotro player i'd be jonesing hard for sure.

Asm0deus

I haven't played LOTRO for 1 week now as the data servers having been shitting their pants on and off and Arkenstone is always down when I go to play.....

Erinak1

remsleep said:




Erinak1 said:






alkarionlog said:



well last time I saw this issue on a game they closed the said game, because they couldn't bother to fix it











Considering both games together earnt them over $20 mil last year, I imagine they will be pretty eager to fix it.








I know that $20mil seems a lot from the outside, but once you factor in costs - staff, office, hosting, dev and marketing costs and everything else - $20mil is not much





Money earned vs actual profit - pretty huge difference.



It's not like they are swimming in cash like Epic at this point (Fortnite made $400 million in april 2020 alone)









Yea but when you're a game company, you need money coming in from somewhere :P If they closed down their only 2 games, what exactly would they do? People generally don't close down companies just because.

xpsync

remsleep said:

I know that $20mil seems a lot from the outside, but once you factor in costs - staff, office, hosting, dev and marketing costs and everything else - $20mil is not much

Money earned vs actual profit - pretty huge difference.

It's not like they are swimming in cash like Epic at this point (Fortnite made $400 million in april 2020 alone)

Very true.

Maybe Epic will have the free game of the week, handing out lifetime subs, after they buy them all new servers, hell why stop there brand new top shelf data center of their very own.

Epic is like drug lords they don't know what to do with all the cash.

Seriously though i truly feel for lotro players.

Erinak1

remsleep said:




Erinak1 said:






alkarionlog said:



well last time I saw this issue on a game they closed the said game, because they couldn't bother to fix it











Considering both games together earnt them over $20 mil last year, I imagine they will be pretty eager to fix it.








I know that $20mil seems a lot from the outside, but once you factor in costs - staff, office, hosting, dev and marketing costs and everything else - $20mil is not much





Money earned vs actual profit - pretty huge difference.



It's not like they are swimming in cash like Epic at this point (Fortnite made $400 million in april 2020 alone)









Yea but when you're a game company, you need money coming in from somewhere :P If they closed down their only 2 games, what exactly would they do? People generally don't close down companies just because.

xpsync

remsleep said:

I know that $20mil seems a lot from the outside, but once you factor in costs - staff, office, hosting, dev and marketing costs and everything else - $20mil is not much

Money earned vs actual profit - pretty huge difference.

It's not like they are swimming in cash like Epic at this point (Fortnite made $400 million in april 2020 alone)

Very true.

Maybe Epic will have the free game of the week, handing out lifetime subs, after they buy them all new servers, hell why stop there brand new top shelf data center of their very own.

Epic is like drug lords they don't know what to do with all the cash.

Seriously though i truly feel for lotro players.

Viper482

Nanbino said:

Shut it off. Dedicated private servers run better than this corporate money grab.

A cashgrab that puts out an awesome game with tons of content? You sad because your cheap butt has to pay for something? Man you f2p clowns...

Po_gg

A few days ago someone necro'd a DDO thread with this issue, nice to see the news section noticed it as well eventually...

I'm with Asm0deus just from this side of the Atlantic. Evernight took it pretty bad alongside Arkenstone, so I rather steer away without attempting "to pass" like balrogs in Moria (to log in).

It might prevent the mess-up of the character data - knowing Turbine/SSG...

I miss out on the last tier of Midsummer rewards this way, but better safe than sorry.

Kyleran

Viper482 said:

Nanbino said:

Shut it off. Dedicated private servers run better than this corporate money grab.

A cashgrab that puts out an awesome game with tons of content? You sad because your cheap butt has to pay for something? Man you f2p clowns...

All the content in the world isn't worth squat if they can't keep the servers running well 24 x 7 x 365 days a year.

If they can't be bothered to provide good service, they are a cash grab and should be shut down.

Allwynd_01

SSG are cheapskates on everything - their servers, their game clients, their content updates, everything. I'm not surprised at all that this janky game that looks like a low budget indie pet project is struggling every step of the way.

They don't have EU servers, the lag is insane and unplayable, which makes the already boring and janky combat even more unbearable... I kill one mob and uninstall the game, because it makes me sick... in contrast I can spend like 3-4 hours just grinding mobs in Vanilla WoW while listening to podcatsts and never get bored at all until I have to get up and do something for the Real Life.

It seems like 99% of the budget for this game went into creating the zones, implementing the music and using all the names that are intellectual property of Tolkien and his family. It seems like no thought or enthusiasm went into developing the game whatsoever - just sloppily copy-paste the WoW mechanics in a way that's worse than F2P Chinese WoW clones and call it a day.

And the only reason the game is still being kept alive by some clueless, retired whales in their 50s and 60s is because there is no other MMORPG set in Middle Earth...



Hopefully that changes in the near future and this misunderstanding of a "game" gets canned for good.

Scot

Can I ask why people gave Amathe's joke a wtf? Obviously this is a serious issue, but you should be able to chill out and have a laugh, there are worse things in the world than not being able to access your game.

Amathe

Scot said:

Can I ask why people gave Amathe's joke a wtf? Obviously this is a serious issue, but you should be able to chill out and have a laugh, there are worse things in the world than not being able to access your game.

Thanks for the support. I'm just trying to keep it light. But if that effort falls flat with some, I'll live. I have nothing against LOTRO, btw, and I'm pretty sure I didn't unplug the server.

DarkEvilHatred

Kyleran said:



Viper482 said:




Nanbino said:


Shut it off. Dedicated private servers run better than this corporate money grab.








A cashgrab that puts out an awesome game with tons of content? You sad because your cheap butt has to pay for something? Man you f2p clowns...



All the content in the world isn't worth squat if they can't keep the servers running well 24 x 7 x 365 days a year.

If they can't be bothered to provide good service, they are a cash grab and should be shut down.








Shit happens. Not everything is an easy fix. Think about COVID...

DarkEvilHatred

Apologies... edited as it was a double post.

alkarionlog

DarkEvilHatred said:

Kyleran said:



Viper482 said:




Nanbino said:


Shut it off. Dedicated private servers run better than this corporate money grab.








A cashgrab that puts out an awesome game with tons of content? You sad because your cheap butt has to pay for something? Man you f2p clowns...



All the content in the world isn't worth squat if they can't keep the servers running well 24 x 7 x 365 days a year.

If they can't be bothered to provide good service, they are a cash grab and should be shut down.








Shit happens. Not everything is an easy fix. Think about COVID...

well we could prevent that, but that would mean putting china in they place with no one really want to do so we get covid, swine flu will be the next again, chiken flu was the last time, spanish flu, came also from china, so pretty much only good thing china can export who is of quality is deadly virus

Ozmodan

Allwynd_01 said:

SSG are cheapskates on everything - their servers, their game clients, their content updates, everything. I'm not surprised at all that this janky game that looks like a low budget indie pet project is struggling every step of the way.

They don't have EU servers, the lag is insane and unplayable, which makes the already boring and janky combat even more unbearable... I kill one mob and uninstall the game, because it makes me sick... in contrast I can spend like 3-4 hours just grinding mobs in Vanilla WoW while listening to podcatsts and never get bored at all until I have to get up and do something for the Real Life.

It seems like 99% of the budget for this game went into creating the zones, implementing the music and using all the names that are intellectual property of Tolkien and his family. It seems like no thought or enthusiasm went into developing the game whatsoever - just sloppily copy-paste the WoW mechanics in a way that's worse than F2P Chinese WoW clones and call it a day.

And the only reason the game is still being kept alive by some clueless, retired whales in their 50s and 60s is because there is no other MMORPG set in Middle Earth...



Hopefully that changes in the near future and this misunderstanding of a "game" gets canned for good.

Are you done spouting nonsense now?  I have a lot of EU friends that play with no issues and SSG has never been cheapskates ever.  They put out a lot of content for their players.  Please go troll another site.

perrin82

Allwynd_01 said:

SSG are cheapskates on everything - their servers, their game clients, their content updates, everything. I'm not surprised at all that this janky game that looks like a low budget indie pet project is struggling every step of the way.

They don't have EU servers, the lag is insane and unplayable, which makes the already boring and janky combat even more unbearable... I kill one mob and uninstall the game, because it makes me sick... in contrast I can spend like 3-4 hours just grinding mobs in Vanilla WoW while listening to podcatsts and never get bored at all until I have to get up and do something for the Real Life.

It seems like 99% of the budget for this game went into creating the zones, implementing the music and using all the names that are intellectual property of Tolkien and his family. It seems like no thought or enthusiasm went into developing the game whatsoever - just sloppily copy-paste the WoW mechanics in a way that's worse than F2P Chinese WoW clones and call it a day.

And the only reason the game is still being kept alive by some clueless, retired whales in their 50s and 60s is because there is no other MMORPG set in Middle Earth...



Hopefully that changes in the near future and this misunderstanding of a "game" gets canned for good.

I hope tjey address the server instability fast because it could result with more lost fans.

I disagree on some parts of the comment. The game is 13 years old and throughout that time it brought many good times for my Kin and I. Also, SSG took something that was going to be shutdown and at least produced content and kept it alive. 

Viper482

Kyleran said:



Viper482 said:




Nanbino said:


Shut it off. Dedicated private servers run better than this corporate money grab.








A cashgrab that puts out an awesome game with tons of content? You sad because your cheap butt has to pay for something? Man you f2p clowns...



All the content in the world isn't worth squat if they can't keep the servers running well 24 x 7 x 365 days a year.

If they can't be bothered to provide good service, they are a cash grab and should be shut down.








Sarcasm?

Viper482

Kyleran said:



Viper482 said:




Nanbino said:


Shut it off. Dedicated private servers run better than this corporate money grab.








A cashgrab that puts out an awesome game with tons of content? You sad because your cheap butt has to pay for something? Man you f2p clowns...



All the content in the world isn't worth squat if they can't keep the servers running well 24 x 7 x 365 days a year.

If they can't be bothered to provide good service, they are a cash grab and should be shut down.








Sarcasm?

katzklaw

Allwynd_01 said:

SSG are cheapskates on everything - their servers, their game clients, their content updates, everything. I'm not surprised at all that this janky game that looks like a low budget indie pet project is struggling every step of the way.

They don't have EU servers, the lag is insane and unplayable, which makes the already boring and janky combat even more unbearable... I kill one mob and uninstall the game, because it makes me sick... in contrast I can spend like 3-4 hours just grinding mobs in Vanilla WoW while listening to podcatsts and never get bored at all until I have to get up and do something for the Real Life.

It seems like 99% of the budget for this game went into creating the zones, implementing the music and using all the names that are intellectual property of Tolkien and his family. It seems like no thought or enthusiasm went into developing the game whatsoever - just sloppily copy-paste the WoW mechanics in a way that's worse than F2P Chinese WoW clones and call it a day.

And the only reason the game is still being kept alive by some clueless, retired whales in their 50s and 60s is because there is no other MMORPG set in Middle Earth...



Hopefully that changes in the near future and this misunderstanding of a "game" gets canned for good.

looool.  both these games are old. 13-14 years old. of course they're going to *look* poor at this point compared to modern offerings. i haven't actually played LotRO, but if it's anything like DDO, it was made with much care and attention to detail, which was the later muddied a bit by lack of focus.. but certainly not a "janky" game or struggling indie project by any means. 

and i LOL at your idea that another game could get the LotR IP and do  it better... Neverwinter tried the same thing with DDO... and while it's a nice enough game... it is literally what you accuse LotRO of... a copy-paste WoW clone that is D&D in name only. i went and checked it out for a week and came right to DDO. 

you sound like a hater who didn't get his way about something and are now running around trash talking the game 

Tokken

are they gonna compensate players for not being able to log on?