All LotRO servers down for a hotfix

by Shawn Schuster Nov 18th 2008 at 6:15PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Events, in-game, Expansions, Launches, Server downtime, News items

If you just got home from work, planning on digging into a bit of LotRO's Mines of Moria goodness before dinner, you may be pretty peeved to find out that an emergency hotfix has brought the servers down from 5:30pm - 7:30pm Eastern.

But don't fret! That gives you plenty of time to read through our launch day coverage, which includes an interview with Executive Producer Jeffrey Steefel, a Know Your LotRO Lore article featuring The Watcher in the Water, an unboxing of the Collector's Edition and more! Plus, don't forget our previous coverage that could be just as helpful today, especially our complete tour of Book 1.
Update: The servers came back up promptly at 7:30 EST. Enjoy Moria!

Tags: launch-day, lord-of-the-rings-online, lotro, mines-of-moria, server-downtime, turbine

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

David said on 6:27PM 11-18-2008

yea, that downtime during primetime is pretty brootal, especially on day 1. But I'm sure Turbine isnt stupid and knows its 'primetime', so this must be a pretty important fix, so ill cut them some slack :P

David B said on 7:15PM 11-18-2008

I have always found it interesting that Turbine calls these "hotfixes". I work in IT and the very nature of a "hotfix" is a fix that you can keep the system "hot", or running while you fix it. I know they use this term to contrast to their normal "scheduled" updates, I just think they could have used a better word. Another company I knows actually keeps their servers running when they apply "hotfixes".

Tony said on 8:38PM 11-18-2008

I'd be more upset about it if they were a common thing. As it stands, they're very rare with this game.

Bissrok said on 11:43PM 11-18-2008

Well, the last tier of everyone's crafting skills were reset, so I'm alright with losing an hour of playtime if they can fix that. Especially since I was at work while it was down, so it really didn't inconvenience me in any way.