I've been desperately trying to install the free MMO, Lord of the Rings Online (I'll refer to it as LOTRO from now). To be honest, I have no idea when this game takes place - whether it's before, during or after the events of the three novels (exlcuding "The Hobbit", because there was aleady a game adaptation of that).
The first time I tried to install, it took around 3 days to do so. Why? Because - believe it or not - I wasn't using a dongle: I was using Talk-Talk broadband, but I had to do so wirelessly. I was only downloading at 100kb minimum.
My laptop screen Trollfaced me.
So then I decided to just let it download from 5AM to 9PM for around three days. Finally, the patcher appeared and I was overjoyed! But then I realized it was installing another 3 gigabytes on top of the six I'd recently downloaded! WHAT?!
My laptop screen Trollfaced me. Again.
So I agreed to install that 3gig, which took around two hours. When that was done, I tried logging in with BOTH OF MY CODEMASTERS AND TURBINE ACCOUNTS!!!! Did it work?! No.
My laptop screen Trollfaced me. Thrice.
That was when I realized I was installing the US version! Of course, how silly of me to not notice that THERE WAS NO NOTIFICATION OF THIS BEING THE UNITED STATES VERSION OF THE GAME!!!! So I uninstalled that, and in my rage, I roared. I would boast about reaching climax during that roar, but that would be stupid. And a lie.
So I installed the EU version of the game, which was ten gigabytes. Too much. I tried on my Iomega hard-drive, but apparently I didn't have permission. I gave it full access, but what happened? It wasn't part of Win32, and that really brought my piss to the boil. I suffered 3rd degree burns in my bladder. So then I decided to install it on my Data drive and - voila - it has done it!
So now I'm happy. I'm just around 75% installed, then we've got to extract the files, then install the patcher, and then I'm done! I'm ready to play LOTRO!
I'm probably happier than this kid here!
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