Not spending anymore money on this game till lag is fixed

[SteelBlood]

This game has become just unplayable. Died multiple times within an hour because of lag. Have a gaming computer and the game servers are ran by a damn hamster wheel. Really regret buying the expansions when they were on sale because why buy something I can't even play?

Played over a decade, really wanted to come back to the game, but dealing with this issue for at least a month now and makes me really doubt I'll be coming back as an active player.

[MMOGamer71]

Ok?

[NavFamG]

You do know that not everyone experiences lag or even the same type of lag when they do. It's just as possible that it's your internet connection / server causing it.

Personally I haven't had any game breaking lag in quite a few years and when I do notice stuttering etc... I just stop my movement and let the computer catch up to the game.

[SteelBlood]

I know not everyone experiences lag, but quite a few are. I'm on gladden and see people complaining about lag every single day, multiple times a day. Rubber banding, skills taking way to long to activate, people not playing warden cause the lag is messing up their gambits. LOTRO is the only game I have lag issues on. Violent rubberbanding, skills taking 30 seconds to trigger, windows taking a long time to pop up (like quest dialogues), being unable to use doors, these are all server lag issues.

Let me give you an example of what happened within the span of an hour. I am in Mordor, and I suddenly rubberband forward 100m right in front of one of the lava filled crags. I stopped before I fell down the crag. Then I was teleported inside the crag anyways and started falling. Then I fell through the earth. And then I zoomed back up to normal ground and somehow didn't die.

Next, I was simply riding along a road and started taking massive damage when crossing a bridge. I was suddenly teleported to underneath the bridge into lava and died. I had to cross the bridge a second time later, and the exact same thing happened. I die more to lag than any enemies in the game.

And no it isn't just Mordor. Other examples include being unable to leave a room for about a minute because the door wouldn't open due to lag because it said "already in use" but the door just wouldn't open. Questing takes longer because I have to wait for dialogue windows to open up. Combat gives me headaches because skills take so long to trigger that I am just standing there getting murdered. Stopped playing my Warden (one of my favorite classes) because my gambits kept screwing up because the lag interferes with skill queuing as well as activating. More than once I rode into an area that looked clear, only to later have enemies spawn all around and next to me.

Every time one of these examples happened, I mentioned it in chat, and chat was filled with people saying they have the same issues. I know not everyone has these problems, but enough people do that it is a major issue with the game.

[WhamyKaBlamy]

Considering that I play with multiple people around the globe and we all experience the lag at the same time, for the same period of time, multiple times an hour then I'd hazard a guess it's not our internet connection and is actually on the server end. Especially when none of us experience any other connection issues while it happens.

[Elitewrecker PT]

I'm on evernight, supposedly the worst one in regards to lag issues, and rarely have that extreme of a problem, other than on warsteed but that's always happened since they were introduced.

[rumpelstiltskin]

its always hysterical when scrubs blame lag on dying. if you gotta type out a thesis length paragraph to prove yourself then youre probably fos.

[Keg]

Its also hysterical when people act like there is no lag....even when the devs admit there is and they are trying to narrow the problem down.......

[Kormach]

There is absolutely lag in this game. There always has been. The bigger issue is some people experience it more frequently and worse than others. There's been several times on Landroval when people are complaining about lag and I am not experiencing any of it.

I have been getting more lag in the last couple months than I've ever had before. SSG keeps talking about addressing it, but they are never really clear on what exactly they are doing. Hopefully, with new owners now, there will be more money put in to fixing servers and other hardware issues.

[Jacqora]

I have a very nice self-built gaming setup at home that I use, and despite having that and very good internet the lag and the rubber-banding is extremely annoying. This is probably the only game I play that I experience this. Every other MMO I play on my computer runs as smooth as butter. I really hope at some point they address this as a serious issue since it affects gameplay in a big way.

[listless]

I experience it the most after killing things, in that space of time when the game's updating the general chat and awarding loot.

[Agarwaen]

It's amazing how there are always a few SSG fanboys denying the existance of lag opr saying "it's your internet connection".

I also will no longer continue my VIP status until this is finally dealt with.

[eclipse]

There is a TON of rubber banding and window lags in the game. I havent had much problem with skills but then again im only lvl 16 or so and just got into the game a couple days ago.

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Publicado originalmente por Agarwaen:

It's amazing how there are always a few SSG fanboys denying the existance of lag opr saying "it's your internet connection".

Not a fanboy, but I do not get lag in this game. I play 14 lore-masters with pets and 2 minis, no lag. A few times a day the 15 characters that follow my main will stutter to keep up a bit, but other than that I play without issue.

[Jacqora]

Everybody just needs to accept that some don't get lag or rubber-banding, and a lot others do. For the people that do, it's a big problem. No one really knows what the issue is, all we can do is ask the game's team to solve the problem. And it's personal choice if you are going to stop putting money into a game because of an issue you can't control, which is perfectly okay and understandable.

[Wolfen]

When i think of people working on Lotro Servers i always imagine some few, poor fellows who are straying throught half-empty server-halls, fixing valves and gears here and there with old, oil-stained wrenches in the light of old gaslamps they are carrying.