"Players already in-game will be Unaffected" ( LIE )

"The Turbine account management site at http://myaccount.turbine.com will be down for maintenance on Monday, May 21 between 7:00AM and 1:00PM EDT. While players already in the game when the site is brought down will be unaffected, some players may be unable to log into the game during the downtime. Thanks for your patience!"

But at 7am I was booted from the game .....And of cource, cannot log back in

There are people playing on every server right now - I'm looking at the stats. I'm sorry you were disconnected. It's our authentication servers that are down, not the game servers, which is why you can't log back in but people whose connections have stayed up are still in the game. We did *not* take the servers down.

Closing the thread!

-Meghan