I knew that whatever they fixed last Friday was 1. Serious enough to need to be fixed immediately and 2. Enough of a threat that the devs couldn't announce it and risk people exploiting it My guess was they identified an item dupe glitch but this is wild
One of the chatters and also LOTRO streamer who was discussing this with me in the video, CheckingMyLootz, said there was a similar bug with EU accounts with the Codemaster servers. I don't recall this, but I've taken my time away from LOTRO in the past. His theory is that SSG must've gotten too close to the same coding that caused Codemaster to activate that glitch happened previously, which is fair. Yeah it's crazy they canceled Friday's livestream and fixed it LATE Friday night.
@@aubreytheweirdone Yeah i remember something similar years ago before they migrated the servers over to Turbine, it was right after a major update and happened to a few people and they fixed it almost right away. Fortunately the way characters appear to be loaded into the selection screen and loaded into the game itself seem to be two seperate log ins with authentication for each, so even if you had someone elses characters on the selection screen it still checks your credentials before it actually loads them into the game, so you wouldn't be able to actually play them.
if i logged in an saw someone else's characters, i'd have to send them mail explaining what happened, but also asking them if they'd like to come visit my hobbit home for tea and sconces, would be lovely to have a guest 🥲
Every MMO I have played has had an emergency hotfix of some level. Some fairly maor, some very major. One MMO was down for over a week and had a rollback that was over a week. Things happen and when it arises, it gets fixed. How many hotfixes has LotRO had in 17 years? Trials of playing an online game that has many updates and doesnt depend on only updating content once or twice a year with ust xpacs.
Feel bad for the devs, but don't feel tooooooo bad for Cord. He has never wanted to be LOTRO's CM, and it shows! (He's DDO's CM made to do both jobs because SSG). Cord probably seems better than industry standard CM just because of how little actual community interaction he has means he's not pissing people off as often as many ;-}
Actually Cord does quite a bit in the background, he is regularly lurking in LotRO streamers channels when they're live, as Aubrey mentioned he will take time to email people in his own time when he's not even working, and communicates in general quite well directly with people. He could maybe be a little more visual in the socials, but that doesn't mean he isn't doing his job.
@@LootzMyCord has been widely known for NOT doing his job and the jobs he does do, poorly. FOR YEARS Stop glazing these AWFUL devs just because you don’t want “hate”
Hello , I've never played LOTRO. What server would you recommend for me and what class can be considered newbie friendly. (I am from Europe). I am not opposed to spend little bit of money if it can enhance my experience.
@@StefanCirko I would recommend you check out my server video for that answer :) I will say if you wanna spend money, a more active community is on Mordor rn for EU
Saying he’s busy, isn’t an option. This is a serious issue and honestly could have happened before, and we just not known about it. His response is very telling, just more “we know about it and we’re working on it thank you” Which is essentially him making an announcement to appease people while not directly answering questions, then he will come back and piddle another answer that doesn’t really say anything. Cord has been known to be a BS dev just trying to milk his job with as little work as possible, im not sure how this guy is still employed considering the state of the game in comparison to what it used to be. I guarantee if I performed the way Cordovan does at my job, even as a super, I would be fired IMMEDIATELY
LOTRO is live service therefore should always have CS available. I do not agree with everyone taking their time off from work in this matter, if the game would be singleplayer OK, but as a live service MMORPG it's not OK for noone to work throughout the weekends.
The customer service team do work 24/7, cord is not customer service as such, he's the community manager, he deals with the community side of things, just because he's not there doesn't mean nobody is.
@@mihamatavz5566 I didn’t specify this in the video but LOTRO & SSG does have a 24/7 live customer service. Cordovan and the development team aren’t on the clock 24/7 though. I should’ve specified that in the video. My mistake
You first have to ask Gandalf in Prancing Pony for permission to join his friendship and his company. It's a very closed and hidden company mind you but once you're in you're really in but you gotta keep it shhhh..! And as a bonus you're going for a helluva ride through middle earth so buckle your rucksack real hard! But I can be your real friend as an alternative depending which server you play on.
Yeah that was crazy I remember seeing the server shut down notice 30 minutes before it happened and everybody was freaking out
@@gscgold Yeah I had just wrapped up stream when the notice went out and I was like “dang what happened!?” lol
I knew that whatever they fixed last Friday was
1. Serious enough to need to be fixed immediately and
2. Enough of a threat that the devs couldn't announce it and risk people exploiting it
My guess was they identified an item dupe glitch but this is wild
One of the chatters and also LOTRO streamer who was discussing this with me in the video, CheckingMyLootz, said there was a similar bug with EU accounts with the Codemaster servers. I don't recall this, but I've taken my time away from LOTRO in the past. His theory is that SSG must've gotten too close to the same coding that caused Codemaster to activate that glitch happened previously, which is fair. Yeah it's crazy they canceled Friday's livestream and fixed it LATE Friday night.
@@aubreytheweirdone Yeah i remember something similar years ago before they migrated the servers over to Turbine, it was right after a major update and happened to a few people and they fixed it almost right away.
Fortunately the way characters appear to be loaded into the selection screen and loaded into the game itself seem to be two seperate log ins with authentication for each, so even if you had someone elses characters on the selection screen it still checks your credentials before it actually loads them into the game, so you wouldn't be able to actually play them.
@ That’s wild! Thanks for clarifying and responding :D I totally didn’t think to @ you either lol
good to see them jumping on problems like this quickly even pushing out a fix in the evening like that.
@@copydepastey IKR! I thought it was odd when they announced it, but now I’m like oh crap glad they did that
if i logged in an saw someone else's characters, i'd have to send them mail explaining what happened, but also asking them if they'd like to come visit my hobbit home for tea and sconces, would be lovely to have a guest 🥲
@@The-Apothekari Awww that sounds so cute!
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Every MMO I have played has had an emergency hotfix of some level. Some fairly maor, some very major. One MMO was down for over a week and had a rollback that was over a week. Things happen and when it arises, it gets fixed. How many hotfixes has LotRO had in 17 years? Trials of playing an online game that has many updates and doesnt depend on only updating content once or twice a year with ust xpacs.
Feel bad for the devs, but don't feel tooooooo bad for Cord. He has never wanted to be LOTRO's CM, and it shows! (He's DDO's CM made to do both jobs because SSG). Cord probably seems better than industry standard CM just because of how little actual community interaction he has means he's not pissing people off as often as many ;-}
Yep I heard years ago that he was more of a DDO guy and actually plays DDO a lot ,more than he plays lotro.
Actually Cord does quite a bit in the background, he is regularly lurking in LotRO streamers channels when they're live, as Aubrey mentioned he will take time to email people in his own time when he's not even working, and communicates in general quite well directly with people. He could maybe be a little more visual in the socials, but that doesn't mean he isn't doing his job.
@@LootzMy That's good to hear. I don't envy the guy. I know whatever he does is virtually just for the love of it... because SSG.
@@LootzMyCord has been widely known for NOT doing his job and the jobs he does do, poorly.
FOR YEARS
Stop glazing these AWFUL devs just because you don’t want “hate”
Aubrey avoiding saying the word 'erroneously'. 😏
@@Caerulean Don’t call me out like that… 😂😂😂
@@aubreytheweirdone 😆
Hello , I've never played LOTRO. What server would you recommend for me and what class can be considered newbie friendly. (I am from Europe). I am not opposed to spend little bit of money if it can enhance my experience.
@@StefanCirko I would recommend you check out my server video for that answer :) I will say if you wanna spend money, a more active community is on Mordor rn for EU
Hey why don't you check out dragon dogma
@@nameless6878 Just not interested at the moment.
Saying he’s busy, isn’t an option.
This is a serious issue and honestly could have happened before, and we just not known about it. His response is very telling, just more “we know about it and we’re working on it thank you”
Which is essentially him making an announcement to appease people while not directly answering questions, then he will come back and piddle another answer that doesn’t really say anything.
Cord has been known to be a BS dev just trying to milk his job with as little work as possible, im not sure how this guy is still employed considering the state of the game in comparison to what it used to be. I guarantee if I performed the way Cordovan does at my job, even as a super, I would be fired IMMEDIATELY
LOTRO is live service therefore should always have CS available. I do not agree with everyone taking their time off from work in this matter, if the game would be singleplayer OK, but as a live service MMORPG it's not OK for noone to work throughout the weekends.
Agreed, it doesn't have to be Cordovan, but not having someone available in an emergency is asking for trouble.
The customer service team do work 24/7, cord is not customer service as such, he's the community manager, he deals with the community side of things, just because he's not there doesn't mean nobody is.
@@mihamatavz5566 I didn’t specify this in the video but LOTRO & SSG does have a 24/7 live customer service. Cordovan and the development team aren’t on the clock 24/7 though. I should’ve specified that in the video. My mistake
Where is the best place to make friends in lotro?
@@TyLianti Twitch and discord servers in my experience:)
Here. We're your friends.
You first have to ask Gandalf in Prancing Pony for permission to join his friendship and his company. It's a very closed and hidden company mind you but once you're in you're really in but you gotta keep it shhhh..! And as a bonus you're going for a helluva ride through middle earth so buckle your rucksack real hard! But I can be your real friend as an alternative depending which server you play on.
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