1045th in line? Isn’t PAX over?

Judging from completely unscientific measurements, it seems that the initial weekend of Free-to-play has been a big success for LOTRO. Servers are full, there’s been a lot of buzz this week about the game and most of the attention I think has been fairly positive.

To me it’s a little like watching your kids go away to school for the first time. You’re happy because you know there’s whole new worlds of discovery and prosperity coming their way. At the same time, while you know they will be coming back later, you kinda just want to play with them now.

Since many of you have some time on your hands (judging from the screenshot above) let us know what you think of this first weekend (or week, if you were part of the pre-launch) in the comments below. Happy? Sad? Enraged? Inebriated? We want to hear about it!

P.S. This screenshot was taken at about 12:55PM PDT on 9/12/2010 while trying to connect to Brandywine. All the other worlds were full as well, with queues of various size.

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http://tabletopgeeks.com/ Svenn

Thank goodness for priority login! :)
Mamosa

It seemed to be really nice yesterday, in the morning, and than around 4 o’clock the crazies hit. Some girl went on and on in OOC about her bff’s being in love and how she loved them or some other crazy garbage. While I KNOW that these type of players will not always last, there were so many of them. And it made me a little sad. I like the type of players who play lotro for the lore and style of game play.

Otherwise, lots of people seem to be coming back, and that’s awesome. As a new player myself, I would like to see high populated servers and the same kind of player that drew me to the game in the first place. I have only met a few (and very few at that) people who are completely unhappy or just nasty to the f2p/premium players. I thought that it would be higher, but I’m VERY happy to see that it’s not.
Paul

I’m not so sure priority login is working. I’m a two-year subscriber and I opened a new f2p account for me kid. When we attempted to login at about the same time we both were 700+ in the que and it seems to be dropping at the same rate.
Craig

If I ever have to wait more than 2 minutes to get into the game (I am a VIP charter member), I will drop my subscription.
http://dragonchasers.com pasmith

I’m getting mixed signals on the launch. Blogs seem to be reporting success, but twitter feedback talks of long queues, lag spikes and other yuckiness. Maybe it’s just Landroval that’s struggling?

I decided to opt-out this weekend and give them some time to get things smoothed over.
Bill

Hmm, priority login appears to be an issue right now:

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?355934-Is-priority-login-for-VIPs-working-or-not
Mamosa

I did see a few people say that they are VIP and even though they had a LARGE queue (1700) they got in pretty quickly. I waited an hour. I was promptly told to “get out”. Good times. So much for “friendly player base”.
Sallenia

When we played for a few hours last night there was a lot of complaining on the OOC channel about the wait times for logging in as well as the lag. Yes we did wipe twice due to lag issues, and yes it took about 15 minutes to log in. Does that warrant ranting and cursing the game of LOTRO, or Turbine? Patience seems to have abandoned the some of the LOTRO community, try to remember that this is the first weekend since F2P launched, of course it’s going to be super busy and full of noobs and of course there are going to be some issues and glitches. Give Turbine a break, I’m sure they are working on fixing those issues as quickly as possible. Someones comment on OOC last night was that in 6-8 months it would probably be fixed and we would look back and laugh. THIS IS THE FIRST WEEKEND! Try to have some patience people, it is after all a game, and the point of playing this game is that it’s FUN! Considering everything that’s changed this week I’d say they did a pretty good job at the transition.
kate

It’s been complete crap. I’ve been trying to log in for an hour now, and I can’t even get to the point where they tell me there’s a server queue… it just hangs and hangs and hangs (it’s not the client, I was able to get in on Thursday).

Add that together with people’s forum account being messed up and VIPs not being able to post, and it’s been a complete disaster.

I’m downloading the WoW trial now.
Shaun

I logged in yesterday (mid Sunday afternoon) and although there was a queue of about 1100, I only had to wait about 3 or 4 minutes. Even as a VIP it was a non issue for me after I calmed down from my initial suprise. I have always enjoyed playing the game and it’s worth it to ride out a few bumps in the road here and there. I welcome the new players and the larger population base.
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