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Codemasters email customers regarding recent security breach.
Roger Edwards posted this on June 16th, 2011.
Categorized as account hacking, Codemasters, gaming, lotro, the guardian.
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Full link: http://www.containsmoderateperil.com/2011/06/codemasters-email-customers-regarding.html
Codemaster to Turbine Account Migration Open
Goldenstar posted this on June 1st, 2011.
Categorized as Codemasters, global service, LotRO News, migration, transfer, turbine.
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The account migration process from Codemasters to Turbine has officially opened! To start go to http://transfer.lotro.com
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Goldenstar posted this on May 31st, 2011.
Categorized as Codemasters, Europe, party.
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We received the following email with pictures of the Codemasters final party from Aaron of the Evernight server and thought it would be fun to share while our EU friends are waiting to be migrated. If you have any pictures to share, join our Flickr group and post them up for all to enjoy!
Hello CSTM,
My Name is Aaron and I play on the Evernight Server in the EU, and I listen to your blog and podcasts every week, it really is the highlight of my Sunday (because I’m GMT I can’t listen to you live 
) Keep up the great work. This week was the Codemaster migration and thanks to your site myself and my kinship found out just in time, we all thank you for that.
On May 31st the GM’s held a party outside the Prancing Pony, it really was a sad because we wouldn’t see them in there GMiness ever again, but it was fun because we had music, fireworks and a cute Hobbit couple playing music and dancing for everyone dancing for everyone this instantly made me think of Goldenstar and Merric. So I have attached some pictures of the party.
Read the rest of this entry »The last ride across Eriador.
Roger Edwards posted this on May 29th, 2011.
Categorized as Codemasters, gilrain, lotro.
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Yesterday evening a group of LOTRO players on the Gilrain server, gathered for a final ride through Eriador to mark the ending of the European service run by Codemasters. Organised by Thorebane, it was well attended with the group exceeding 70 + players at one point. Now I'm not particularly sentimental. I went along mainly out of curiosity and to see how the server coped with the volume of traffic in specific locations. I have fond memories of the great Mirkwood charge across the Anduin, back in December 2009.
Codemasters Code Twitter Giveaway!
Goldenstar posted this on May 27th, 2011.
Categorized as Codemasters, Events, Giveaway, Mines of Moria, Shadows of Angmar, twitter.
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Adalas in the US (Mabusian in EU) sent us some additional codes to give away to you. With this being the final weekend we’re going to be doing a super quick twitter contest to give this away!
Prize
Available to win is a complete Codemaster’s special bundle:
- 1 Shadows of Angmar Code
- 1 Mines of Moria Code
- 1 Gold Box Code good for a Bree Starter horse, Lucky Horseshoe, Scented Candles x5, and a Welcome Mat!
How to Enter
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Goldenstar posted this on May 26th, 2011.
Categorized as Codemasters, Events, Giveaway, moria, Shadows of Angmar, winners.
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Yesterday was the end of our two contests for Mines of Moria and Shadows of Angmar codes. The winners were selected and they were super prompt at responding.
All the codes have been delivered for to their new homes with the warning that they need to apply them by May 30th!
Winner of the Mines of Moria Key:
Codemasters Shadows of Angmar Giveaway!
Goldenstar posted this on May 19th, 2011.
Categorized as Codemasters, Events, Giveaway, Shadows of Angmar.
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We have such generous and wonderful fans here at CSTM and to prove it Yogho from the Civillian Army of the Lowlands Kinship on Laurelin [EU-RP] server has donated to CSTM not one but two codes for LOTRO Shadows of Angmar for the Codemasters service.
This falls under the same urgency as the Mines of Moria giveaway as these codes will not work after the migration to the Turbine Global Service so you must use them soon to activate them! According to Maneki on the Codemasters German forums that codes must be used by May 30th (thank you Falebrindor for that link).
Prizes
Read the rest of this entry »An email from Codemasters.
Roger Edwards posted this on May 17th, 2011.
Categorized as Archlord, Codemasters, lotro, turbine, Turbine Global Service.
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I received the following email from Codemasters last night. Initially I thought, this is a bit late in coming, then I considered some wider implications. Not every EU LOTRO player uses the forums or regularly visits fan based websites. We have players in our kinship who only log on occasionally due to real life commitments and can go for months without being seen. It is therefore more than likely that a considerable amount of the EU LOTRO player base may still be unaware of the transition to Turbine's Global Service.
This raises the question, exactly how long will the migration window be? People have tried to theorize based on previous migrations such as DDO and Archlord. There was a very interesting post on the EU forums concerning the latter:
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Turbine Global Service Transition Updates
Goldenstar posted this on May 11th, 2011.
Categorized as Codemasters, global service, LotRO News, turbine.
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It has been a couple weeks since the announcement of the Turbine Global Service coming starting June 1st. Folks most affected by this are our friends currently on Codemasters servers and are wondering how all this will play out.
Read the rest of this entry »Codemasters forums back online.
Roger Edwards posted this on May 10th, 2011.
Categorized as Codemasters, EU LOTRO forums, lotro.
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Yesterday evening I noticed that the EU LOTRO forums were unavailable. A few hours later I checked again, only to find them still offline. As the LOTRO forums are merely a subset of the entire Codemasters forums I tried to see if I could access any other material. Everything was conspicuously absent. So I nosed around on the internet to see if there was any news relating to this. As per usual, there were rumours in circulation ranging from DOS attacks to corporate sabotage. All of which seemed both silly and implausible. However in light of the recent PlayStation Network security issues, all possibilities were being considered with a little less scepticism than usual.
At approximately 13:00 GMT today the forum came back online. Everything appears to be in order and normal activities (mainly complaining) resumed. However, there were no specific details on the EU LOTRO forums but after some searching, the following statement was discovered in another tier of the forum hierarchy. It is brief but succinct. I would urge regular users to read it and consider it's ramifications.
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