Use this one:

http://launch.soe.com/installer/Vanguard_setup.exe

It's from here:

http://www.soe.com/getthegame/

It's the "Reinstall" option underneath the game link "Returning User?" option.

This is a 5.3GB download of the main game, not just the island trial.

As it's an exe file, I would strongly suggest going to the SOE website and getting it from there directly though.

Hope it helps.

The server is up!

Fingers crossed.

Originally posted by Saorlan

Guys the game is down for a bit. Get over it. Go out.

Stop the "I demand compensation" threads, stop the "SV suck" threads. Just go out and get some air.

Come back Monday and it will be fixed.

Seriously you like drug addicts or something.

Yes SV could be a bit more professional and tweet progress reports but communication seems to be a failure of all IT teams in general.

I don't recall any of my posts looking like that.

Also, Monday is a bank holiday in Sweden (I'm led to believe), so you may have to wait until Tuesday!

Just been reading through the MO forum posts over on the SV forums about the downtime. Oh boy, they are not happy MO bunnies!

Interestingly though. No one seems to be discussing the real issue. Why no update from SV. Absolutely no information is forthcoming from SV. If they were to update the forums with info, it might calm things down a bit.

Still down. Still no further announcements from SV.

Do they actually expect people to pay for this level of service?!?

Not even an update on what's *not* happening?

I guess this is actually useful information though. I now know that SV don't provide any form of server backup or server room maintenance during the games busiest period (weekends).

I didn't get to play the game for more than a couple of hours, but it was a useful trial period after all. :-)

Losing the weekend play time sucks.

I'm wondering just how much of this 14 days free trial time I'm actually going to get to spend in game?

I lost the first three days (evenings) to server down time, and now the weekend to further server down time. So far the game gets 2/10 for playability.

"The server has been shut down to prevent data loss due to hardware failure, we will try to have the situation resolved as soon as possible. Please keep in mind that it is weekend so it might take a bit longer than expected. We apologize for the inconvenience."

Not like a weekend evening might be prime time game playing time or anything. Not like (other) people aren't paying for them to maintain the servers or anything.

Sigh. No matter how much you try to like (and play) this game....

Today went a lot better!

I randomly stumbled upon a very helpful player who spent ages showing me the ropes and getting me back on my feet. Don't believe the hype about everyone being a rabid murderer. There are good people in MO.

The game definetly has 'something', it's just that it struggles so hard under the constant graphical glitching and server resets. I've only played for just under two days (casual evening play), and I can see why people like this game.

So...

Finally got to play MO.

Game started with me standing 'somewhere', I don't know where - as it was night time and pitch black so all I could see were the stars up above (quite nice looking). I stumbled around in the dark until I (literally) bumped into a merchant (I think).

No lanterns or burning torches in the starter area for night time... What is that about?

Strange and bewildering first experience.

I died twice, neither time at the hands of another player.

First time, I got stuck in a rock and couldn't figure out how to get unstuck - so suicided. I appeared next to a priest (?) in a completely different location, with no people, animals or much of anything with about 10% of my hit points. I wondered off looking for civilisation and got lost.

Second time, I fell of a steep drop while trying to find my bearings. This time I had to 'find' the priest (?) in the etherworld. This took a while and I ended somewhere else, even more remote. I now have about 2% of my original hit points. At least this time there were animals around (pigs, boars and wolfs). I stumbled upon a palisaded town (I think), there was no apparent way in, so I'm not sure.

I was accosted by a passing stranger. I say accosted ... somehow I have been lumbered with a pet horse. I didn't agree to the pet or even start or engage in conversation, they just dumped it on me as they passed by. How does that work, you don't even get the chance to turn it down?! So, now I have a pet horse that I have no idea how to use, and the bugger just follows me around.

I have a couple of questions:

How do I get my hit points back?

How do I ride the (pet) horse?

Where do I get a torch/lantern from, as I 'm dreading the next nightfall?

Is there a list of text line commands?

Originally posted by Moreplex

I think the average person who plays <insert any MMORPG here> has memory loss.  With everything  <insert dev name here>  has said and then either been proved wrong on or proved a lie I do not understand why there still is a couple hundred people playing.

I think "we" (the people still playing or wanting to give it a go), are just trying to remain optimistic in the face of not much else out there on the market being 'better'.

Personally, I hope this game is good, I've done a whole lot of waiting since starting my trial account.

Would be nice if I could try it. Still waiting for them to put the server back up!

Oh well, that didn't last long ... or get far. "version mismatch" apparently.

Thanks for the info Rohn. I'd just spotted this on the MO forums as well.

I wish the loading screen was a little more helpful then just freezing with "version mismatch" as the only info given.

Jeez, I thought I'd downloaded the wrong version of the game or something.

The info on their website and on the forums seems to be from yesterday.

Any idea how much longer it's going to be down?

Not that I'm eager to try it out nor nothing.

Well, my trial game finished downloading at some ungodly hour this morning, and I'm now going to sign up for the trial account and go off in search of Rocket Pigs.

Wish me luck.

Just downloading the trial of MO and have been browsing the forums (as you do). I spotted this post over on the official forums:

http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/62889-mmmmmm-1st-impressions.html

... and as I don't have an account as of yet, and can't post on there, I thought I would ask on here.

Just how broken and unfinished is this game?

I mean, rocket pigs, really?!?

Bear in mind, I'm used to Vanguard, so "broken and unfinished" has a slightly different meaning to me.

Joined Twighlyte Song today.

Originally posted by Redemp

Again though ... I can't think of a production team that might have done a better job with it then SoE did.

How about any production team (company) that wasn't producing EverQuest & EverQuest II?

I can see only one reason that SOE took on a third fantasy title, a title that directly and seriously competed with EQII. SOE have done exactly what people predicted they would, they've quietly let V:SOH dwindle away.

Had a third party production team purchased V:SOH, they would have had an absolute investment in the titles future. If it failed, they would lose future income and their jobs. As it is, SOE just reassigned the developers to EQII and future projects.

It's a shame. V:SOH has a lot of untapped potential that another production company could have taken far.

Hey ho.

How many members are you upto, what kind of levels, and what time zone do you play in?

Originally posted by Redemp  ... without SoE you wouldn't have played a working version of Vanguard and it wouldn't be running today.

 

... or maybe:

without $0£ getting involved, it would have eventually been purchased by a smaller, independent production team (or anyone but SOE), and they may have taken more time and may have been willing to put in more advertising effort and perhaps could have made it into the popular and vibrant MMORPG it deserves to be?

But as they say, if wishes were fishes...

Originally posted by boojiboy

...  the lack of investment, development and support did Vanguard in.  The world and game-play were completely open, you could dive into the quests, you could adventure, there were multiple ways to play.  I loved the openess and choices of Vanguard.

+1.

The game is playable as it stands now (mostly). The quests are no better or worse than any other games quests, but who are you going to play with?

Very few new players are joining Vanguard anymore, in fact, most are leaving. Everyone knows it's a dead game that is only bearly being kept on life support by $0£. One dev, seriously?!?

Who wants to play a game that is charging $14.99/month, that has no future but to remain stagnant and undeveloped?

It's a real pity. It's a great world, it could have been one of the best MMORPG's ever.

Shame on SOE.

Servers say "medium", but it feels like "low".

However, it's a good quality kind of low.