Well it's finally over. Closed beta is officially ended and the devs went out with a bang! At least they say they did. I couldn't get past the lagfest to get a good look at any of it. Ah the joys of online gaming!

Turbine Community Matron Patience has posted this schedule for the remaining time until Open Beta:

Tuesday, March 27:[[br]] LOTRO game servers will go dark in the morning and will remain closed until Friday. All player characters will be wiped.

Wednesday, March 28:[[br]] Beta forums: The beta forums will be brought down in the morning. Accounts created on the Beta forums and associated with either Pre-order or Beta keys will be preserved. All other accounts will be wiped. [[br]]

Live forums: The live forums (currently located at http://www.lotro.com/forums) will be brought down in the late afternoon, and will not come back up. If there are any posts which you feel should be saved and/or reposted on the new forums, this is the time to save them! [[br]]

After March 28th, the beta.lotro.com forums address will no longer be valid, and http://forums.lotro.com will be the link to the only set of official forums. Only Pre-order customers and beta players will be able to post on the public forums. If you had a Closed Beta, Open Beta, or Pre-order account on the beta forums, you will be able to log in and use this account. [[br]]

Wednesday - Thursday, March 28-29: [[br]] The forums will be open to beta players.

Friday, March 30: [[br]] Servers go live and Open Beta begins for Pre-order customers! See you in Middle-earth!