Une date pour la sortie du livre 7

Alors que Turbine vient d'annoncer officiellement la sortie du livre 7 au 17 mars prochain pour les serveurs américains, Satine, responsable des communautés Codemasters prévient, dans un communiqué, qu'il y aura un décalage pour la mise en place de ce livre sur les serveurs européens. En effet, la release du livre 7 sur les serveurs Codemasters est donc prévue désormais au 26 mars 2009.

The Lord of the Rings Online™: Mines of Moria™
Book 7: Leaves of Lórien EU Release

Dear Players,

Turbine has officially announced that Book 7: Leaves of Lórien will be launched on their live servers on 17th March, 2009. Codemasters is currently anticipating a release date of 26th March, 2009.

Book 7 is the first major update since the launch of Mines of Moria™ and contains much more written dialogue than recent books. This new release includes story elements that go well beyond what had been estimated when our schedules were set. Although this is positive for the game as we deliver more playable content and story it does mean that more time is required to localise and customise for European release.

Unfortunately, market realities dictate that Turbine must continue on their plan to release as close to deadline as possible. While we have been working with them in an attempt to coordinate on a simultaneous release, the bottom line is that they feel they need to deliver to their players on schedule. Neither company takes this change in our normal delivery policy lightly. A variety of options were considered prior to changing the release schedule, but due to joint operational issues we are unable to launch together this time.

Both Turbine and Codemasters are keen to prevent a re-occurrence of such a delay for the EU and will continue working closely together to avoid separation of releases in the future whenever possible.

In the meantime, Codemasters are doing everything possible to get Book 7 ready for EU release as quickly as we can. We are working around the clock!

We do realize that this delay will be disappointing to many of you. While it’s not a book release, we have arranged a series of fun Bullroarer Took (St. Patrick's Day) activities to take place across Middle-earth. These are an exclusive event for Codemasters customers. Details will be posted to the website shortly.

See you in Middle-earth!

L'origine de ce décalage serait liée à une plus grande quantité de textes à traduire et un contenu additionnel rajouté au dernier moment. Codemasters assure que ce décalage sera évité autant que possible dans les futures mises à jour (comme ce fut le cas précedemment) et qu'ils mettent les bouchées doubles pour pouvoir le sortir à temps quand même !

Histoire de faire patienter les joueurs européens, quelques activités funs du serveur de test Bullroarer (liées à la Saint Patrick) vont prendre place dans la Terre du Milieu. Il s'agit d'une exclusivité pour les clients de Codemasters alors à très bientôt dans les tavernes en attendant de découvrir la Lothlorien !