Well I for one had played the DDO F2P version and did actually sign up for it with a monthly payment (more for the points), so I'm pretty sure this is a good move on Turbine's part with LOTRO. That being said, the lag I've been experiencing this opening weekend shows a bit of non-thinking on Turbine's side.

I understand that there is a european version of LOTRO, but yet the NA version is not IP blocked. Now, I'm all for community and all, but when you have people logging into the game from all over the world because this version is now free, your gonna have some serious issues.

The past 2 days I've personally experienced the usual lg, rubberbanding, loss of chat server, connection issues, updater not matching version of game, put in a queue, game freeze, charcter freeze (while game continues around him) which of course leads to lag death, and all the other usual occurences of over clogged servers.

Now I know it may not be fair to do an IP block, or warranted, but by making one version accessible but not the other is kinda eff'd up. I probably should have done some research to find a better server than what the game gave me (starts with a dw), but still, the game should be able to handle such a load. At least put some limits on the server capacity if it starts going laggy at some amount of users.

Will continue to play it, may also sub to it eventually, but in its current state some hard decisions are going to have to be made. As for the vets and lifers from other countries outside NA that play in the NA version I have little comment on that aspect, as its common sense that ignoring your own regions game and going for the furthest one away instead is basically kinda screwing yerself.

Well, send your regards to Codemasters... they are screwing it up for everyone.

Now even EU players are raiding the US servers, since our F2P is nowhere to be seen yet. Result: lag, queues, disappointed players on both sides of the Atlantic.  Bad mojo.

"Well done" CM! :(

DB

Of course the real game is watching that Examine line of the updater...maybe it'll move past it this minute, maybe not...