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Lord of the Rings Online: Server and Website Problems
Drew
Member Posts: 434
Seems like the folks over at LotRO have run into some problems with a few of their servers, and their primary website appears to be down. They're working on correcting the problem.
We're currently investigating issues that are impacting several of our game and website services. Thanks for your patience while we work to resolve them!
While their main website's down, you can check out LotRO at their Facebook page.
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This little bulletin made me realize how little LOTRO news there has been lately.
Lol yes everthing has been rift dcuo, lotro kind of fell way down in the postings at this point you either love the game and are not posting or you moved on with the point of not caring any more.
I guess somebody jammed their servers up with a dns attack.
DDO isn't running either...
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If DDO isn't running as well, then it's something rather serious on their end and will probably take them a good while to fix it.
Legends are generally bad news; there's not much difference between heroes and madmen.
-Solid Snake
Cant access anything at all to do with Turbine
Funny that this popped up. I just went to log in and nothing was working. I was already on MMORPG.com and was gonna head over to the LotRO section when all of a sudden this came up over the feed.
What a coincidence.
Glad to know whats going on (or... not going on as it were).
It's a gimmick to drive people to their facebook page.
Yep, it's like Turbine has disappeared from the internet completely.
Working in IT Myselof, I feel for them today.. I know what they are going through.. here is hoping they get it resloved fast, and it's not something that is too serious...
Maybe it's time for them to upgrade to guinea pigs from the hamsters they have always had
Someone probably overdrew their lotro-mart account...
I couldn't log on a couple of days ago, after a new patch, then yesterday it was okay- and now this. A buggy patch I guess. No real upgrade since Moria-what news is there?
If Ascherons Call servers are down and DDO servers are down, plus the LoTRo servers, i strongly doubt its from a buggy patch, unless Turbine does the amazingly impossible and uses the same patches for all three games ?
Lolipops !
lol I have a couple guinea pigs, they're not into heavy physical strain, mostly just eating, sleeping, and gnawing on stuff. Rabbits or chinchillas would probably work though...
the struggle to free myself from restraints becomes my very shackles
Months of rollbacks!
I can't connect either- I think we all know what's really happening- Sauron is using hax.
I just actually connected to the main lotro website (an improvement!), and there's a message up saying the site is down for SCHEDULED maintenance. LOL!
I'm pretty sure that if someone "scheduled" maintenance to take place over a 5 hour period on a Sunday afternoon (EST, of course), that person is no longer employed.
I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque...
I can now get past the "Getting Data Centers" point on the launcher, but the big red x for connect in the next screen
Turbine is a company with its head in the clouds. They are crazy unstable. Both their games and the company itself. I lost my patience with them a long time ago.
Crazy unstable? I don't think so, can count on one hand the number of times there have been issues like this that put us out of the game without notice.
How do let your entire enterprise have a single point of failure like this? Everything Turbine has is down. DDO, LOTRO, AC, Home page, account management, everything!! Have they never heard of redundency and contingency management? You are doing some pretty poor IT planning if stuff like that can happen.
Possible reasons why all of Turbine's servers are down:
1. General power outage in the area where their server farm is.
2. DNS attack.
3. Sara Oakheart is behind it.
Hedonismbot: Your latest performance was as delectable as dipping my bottom over and over into a bath of the silkiest oils and creams.
An all day power outage? One would think they would have backup generator system. So I dont think that is it.
Now maybe Sara oakheart is having her hackers hack the system with a DNS attack.
An enterprise that is wholely and totally dependent on IT, like Turbine, you would hope, would not rely on just one source of power. Every IT shop I have worked for has had a backup power option, and they were not even totally internet driven businesses like Turbine.
DNS attack is another thing but for it to affect all of their online entities means either they have a common point of failure or the attack was massive and coordinated and hit all of their entities at once.
AT the last it shop i worked at they had a generator that ha enough diesel to power it for 48 hour straight. That's the entire building, parking deck arms, security system and computers. They could order a truck and have it on site to refuel the generator in 10 minutes.
This smells a lot like an entire backbone failure, not the farms but the router/routers that the farms plug into. I suspect a massive hardware failure.
One has to wonder about backup of-site plans are/were.