http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16051
--- Comment #21 from Athrun samurai_no_densetsu@yahoo.es 2011-06-19 10:03:14 CDT --- Hello Anastasius,
Thank you very much for your kind answer.
I'm aware of what you are telling as I been mantained the LOTRO AppDB page along with Daniel Santos, Mikko Korkalo and other volunteers since 2008. Unluckily for us that's the way Turbine works, if you check obsolete versions of LOTRO on the AppDB you will find that almost every revision of LOTRO had his own way to install. What I mean?. That by example you cannot install LOTRO with the original CD (and you had to rsync from a Windows install) but you can install without problems a Book 12 standalone client and upper, and more funnier, if you rsynced an original CD install you will be not able to update (as the updater doesn't update the game exe and patcher).
Turbine isn't constant. I archieved three times to give instructions to archieve a good and current install without too many hacks, thrice times (or more) it changed, there's huge differences between clients, that lead to things like, if you did a current clean install LOTRO will run without "winetricks d3dx9" but if you updated from a not so old client you will need, there are differeces between LOTRO US (Turbine) and LOTRO EU (Codemasters) clients, depending how and when did you installed your client can have as less as 3.500 archives or even more than 11.000, and so I could go on the rest of the day...
So, what I learned and what's my point of view as mantainer of LOTRO? Fixing old Turbine's stuff does not assures you anything, as almost on every release they change something (and give headaches to all people using wine), so if any dev wants to fix this issue, I won't be opposing, but the experience tells me, keep current, keep giving good support, be on the present and try your best.
All the best.
Athrun