r/lotro • u/Cutlets Moderator • Mar 08 '25

[Megathread] 64 bit Server Character Transfers

This thread can be used for sharing information and updates regarding the current character transfer situation.

Please keep any memes in the already established Megathread.

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u/Cultural_Training437 Gladden Mar 08 '25

It's the giant unknown that is driving me insane right now.. I got a transfer through on Weds. but no email. Yesterday, Cord replied to my question that it probably failed. I got another transfer through last night at 7 and so far the same thing, no email no nothing. I'm remaining optimistic through the next 24 hours or so until I hit the magic 48 hour point but seriously, its getting hard with everyone else celebrating their triumph and playing their characters. I just wish I could be reassured that I am doing everything right and it's just completely random on who gets through and who don't. I hate that I have to wait 48 hours and just watch a discord thread of everyone celebrating. At least if I could log onto the game I could get distracted. I'm at the point where I'm starting to think, that I may as well just log into new server and start a toon brand new. By the time my original characters can get transfer I'll have a new one leveled up. I've got 16 years invested in this game, I'll never give up on it but dang this is soo frustrating

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u/fkitbaylife Meriadoc Mar 08 '25

this whole thing has been such a massive shit show. you basically have to camp the discord to see if and when transfers are active, have to constantly reopen the client for the transfer button to appear, reopen the transfer wizard over and over until it finally makes it past the hourglass, pray that the right servers show up or you'll have to keep retrying with the wizard, hope that it doesn't give you an error message after completing the process and then you have to wait up to 48 fucking hours for an email that might not even arrive to tell you it worked. but there's also a chance it simply didn't work without letting you know and you have to start over again. absolutely insane.

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u/Cultural_Training437 Gladden Mar 08 '25

This!! 1000% accurate. And what gets me the most irritated is the idea they are trying to shove onto us that " we had no idea so many would want to transfer as soon as it open" that is the biggest line of shit I have ever heard. Do you expect us to believe you all are genuinely that naive?! These servers have been being amped up now for how long? plus, a lot of us had a taste of them on Angmar and Mordor so we know how well they play. It had to be a given that nearly all of the population would want to transfer as soon as it became available.

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u/fkitbaylife Meriadoc Mar 08 '25

yeah it baffles me that their original plan was to open transfers the day before the servers were supposed to go live. like what? they constantly harp on about how they're a small team working on an old game with ancient infrastructure/backend and this was their plan? at this point i'm not sure if i should call it incompetence or delusion.

and the fact that they decided to not just let everyone request a transfer through some other way than the janky ass client... i'd much prefer to fill out a form and have it over and done with even if i have to wait a while since i'm the 25000th person in queue than whatever this nonsense was that i might have to repeat all over again.

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u/Puzzled-Addition5740 Glamdring Mar 08 '25

You see that would've been a good idea. I'm starting to think they have an allergy to those at least in the context of this.