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Population of servers?
free2kill
Member Posts: 31
Anyone have an idea on the population these servers can hold?.....before you have to be waiting in a que....which i feel i will be doing to log in and play on release.
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Given the numbers they are expecting ( see other threads ) this is a great question. I would love to know.
I expect this weekend to be a bit crazy.
-Allegria
My only concern is they are launching with seven servers.
I was kind of hoping for at least 10.
The server can handle alot of ppl but not the zone. In pvmp and last day of close beta it showed the game cant even handle more than 50 ppl in the same area.
The devs said they have plenty of servers ready to roll. They're going to need it...
http://lotrovault.ign.com/fullstory.php?id=27828
Over 1,000,000 Players To Be Invited To Free "World Tour of Middle-earth" For The Lord of the Rings Online (TM)
One of the Largest North American MMO Pre-Launch Events Ever Scheduled to Begin On April 6th!
WESTWOOD, MA and CHICAGO, IL - March 27, 2007 -- Turbine, Inc. and Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY) announced a massive, free "World Tour of Middle-earth" available to players throughout North America. Over one million players are planned to be invited into The Lord of the Rings Online (TM): Shadows of Angmar (TM), the most complete and authentic massively multiplayer online (MMO) world based upon the famous Books of J.R.R. Tolkien. The World Tour of Middle-earth is scheduled to begin on April 6th and continue until the anticipated launch of the game on April 24th.
"We decided to launch the World Tour of Middle-earth because of the overwhelming demand from players to get into the closed beta," said Jeffrey Anderson, President and CEO of Turbine, Inc. "We expect the World Tour of Middle-earth to be a spectacular event like nothing that you've ever seen before."
Free access to this hotly anticipated game combined with the staggering size and scale of the World Tour of Middle-earth make this an unprecedented event in the MMO industry. Players can pre-order the game at select retail stores nationwide or at www.lotro.com/preorder and start their adventures in Middle-earth beginning on March 30th.
Advancement in the game will be capped at level 15 which will give players a great opportunity to experience the most authentic online persistent recreation of Middle-earth ever created. Players should visit www.lotro.com/worldtour to get more information on how to obtain a World Tour key.
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The post listing the seven server names also said that these were the first to be announced.
The second stress test ran amazingly well, (full server, I was queued), and that plus the data gathered from last night's shindigs probably gave the devs an excellent idea of what to expect. Open beta will provide more data. Founders (only?) being able to keep their characters from open beta means that on launch day, those characters will not be using the creation tools, and will not be in the starting areas.
I imagine that Turbine will be a little light on servers initially; better to guess low than to be saddled with excess bandwidth costs. It's a lot easier to add servers in the first week or two than to have to merge later.
From sales figures, it seems that an unusually high percentage of the players will be Founders. That should help.