notajedi wrote on May 24^th, 2015 at 6:33pm:



Do they do it better than us ?

And from Vyvyanne on LoTRO, (yup that one)

addition to our new content, we are kicking off a series of major service upgrades for The Lord of the Rings Online which should be completed by end of September of 2015. Let me outline the details of those changes.

New Store: At the end of the month of June we will be transitioning to a completely new store that features more payment options, one click buys and a cleaner interface. As part of this transition, those of you relying on certain alternative payments will lose access to those payments beginning June 12th for a short amount of time. Within a month of that date, however, we should have a new store online that will provide many more payment options than we have had previously. We are also taking advantage of this opportunity to update and streamline the in game store to be a better experience all around.


New Servers and Datacenters: We spoke about this Turbine wide upgrade at the beginning of the year and had expected to have it done by now, but weather and other obstacles set us back. We finally have some progress and we can safely say that by the end of September of 2015 we should have the servers moved to our new datacenters with upgraded hardware and Operating Systems. The US servers will operate from our new datacenter in New Jersey while our EU servers will move back to Europe and reside in our new datacenter in Amsterdam.

Transfer Systems and Server Merge: To support the move to the upgraded server hardware we will be implementing an improved server transfer service that will run from the game launcher rather than a website. Once implemented, server transfers can be account or character based so that all your account level items including marks, Mithril coins, etc. can be transferred. We are also adding functionality that will allow Kin leaders to disband their Kin on one world and then recreate it on another maintaining status and achievements earned by that Kin over its lifetime. More details and breakdowns on all of this to coming in the next few weeks as we move into final phases of development and testing.

You will have 3 months past the date of the launch of the new service in which to continue playing on the smaller worlds while planning and or making your move to a larger server. After that point your characters will always be available to be transferred to one of the remaining worlds, however you will only be able to log in to the remaining servers. More details on all of this as well as detailed instructions on how to move will be provided in email, in-game mail as well as website and forums in the months to come.

CanadianCurseword wrote on May 25^th, 2015 at 10:47am:

Someone hasn't been paying attention.

notajedi wrote on May 25^th, 2015 at 9:39am:


Not valid for DDO.

as I said in IRC :

LoTRO servers were moved to the US ( from Codemaster Amsterdam Hosted ( ATT owned ) datacenter ) through a game update.
They started their launcher, got an update and behold they were on the US servers.

DDO servers were dumped on a tape, put on a ship, then Both Keeper and Devourer were dumped ( with an opt-in twist that you had to follow tightly at all the steps ) on G-Land

No way they can move one of the current server back to Europe.
At least not easily...

The only interesting bit is that they went for a datacenter in Amsterdam... my WAG is the ATT one, since it hosted the games previously.

Ah Pook wrote on May 25^th, 2015 at 4:38pm:


Just being on the other side of NYC will likely reduce latency for most players. Boston was a poor choice for a datacenter geographically speaking.