Rubbinns wrote on May 22^nd, 2015 at 3:38am:


That's what you get for joining around MoTU time, Noob! 

Turd_Ferguson wrote on May 22^nd, 2015 at 10:36am:

Aint they all?

DropBear wrote on May 21^st, 2015 at 9:01pm:


I would like to point out that they are not upgrading, but migrating ddo, lotro and ac to the same server bank. Sure, its an upgrade for turbine, but for the players, I wont hold my breath waiting for this snafu. For gods sake, look at their last integration/migration of their forums...

Sev made it clear they were also migrating to new hardware somewhere in the thread.

Arkat wrote on May 22^nd, 2015 at 3:38pm:


I migrated to a new laptop in january ( the old one was 4 years old ) at work.

the new laptop is soooo much better that :

- I lost the SSD the previous one earned after a HDD crash. ( and I was told that this won't happen again, as SSD is NOT an option anymore )
- I lost the internal DvD Drive.
- The new laptop is slower than the old one... to try to compensate localy a RAM extension to 8 Gb was bought for everybody.

and the thing is still sucking more than the old one....

Migrating on new hardware will not improve the game if the hardware is chosen with only the lowest cost as the choosing factor.

Vargouille told me, when I asked ( about G-Land Crashes ) that a given game server has it's own hardware...
If they are 10 year old servers it should start to be difficult to find spare parts. Also at that time virtualization was not something thought of.
By moving to a new rack of servers they can virtualize servers on new hardware.... the hardware might be more powerful, but as there's more things to do it might not change anything.

Now It depends who drives the change... is it Turbine that try to cut costs ? or WB that try to consolidate all it's IT in a single place ?

Because if it's the second case, the wallet might be open.
( been there done that here... moving and consolidating test plants when we moved from one building to another... and basically it was open wallet season : if we wanted something for the infrastructure, we could buy it... High end rack cabinets, Cat 6 cabling, High end Terminal Concentrators, High End KVM, ... we got everything we asked )

mystafyi wrote on May 23^rd, 2015 at 10:32am:


I can't tell for AC ( if there's a store there ) but DDO and LoTRO stores are actually hosted by Akamai...
in the case of DDO some direct store links were leaked by Kookie in screenshots, and from there it was easy to find the LoTRO one...
( the screenies don't shows the links anymore )

Flav wrote on May 23^rd, 2015 at 11:02am:


indeed, but they did just say that the players wanted, nay, needed a new online store experience....

Barkabout wrote on May 24^th, 2015 at 1:17am:

Our data shows that drop rates for ff clickies have been underperforming.

Barkabout wrote on May 24^th, 2015 at 1:17am:


I am not sure about that. In 2010 and before, we used the ml1 ring of feathers and other permanent ff items that we just toggled on and off when needed. Most folks ran permanent ff except for the ole tempest spine.