Thread: Spring Fest?

Originally Posted by lf2536

passover steed? does it part the waters?

Yes. I'd buy it just for evendim

Originally Posted by lf2536

passover steed? does it part the waters?

It's a donkey.

Oh that would be soooo cute!!!

Originally Posted by Artemis023

It's a donkey.

Oh that would be soooo cute!!!

is it a white donkey?

For account wide steeds it would be possible to have a item that is account bound, generates a mount skill and won't be comsumed on use.
Ok, this way the player needs one item slot in the shared bank vault, but it would certainly simplify the process.



But please if you do something outside my.lotro, don't limit it to Twitter, but extend it to Email as well. It's one thing to read the page with the twitter info from time to time, but there are enough people who just don't want to use facebook or twitter.

Originally Posted by Sapience

This patch has nothing to do with the Spring Festival. That festival has not been cancelled, though it has been pushed back a little bit so that we could address some of the concerns over last year's Anniversary festival and make this year's much better, more fun, and have some cool items for you guys.

It is our 5th Anniversary after all.

Only just saw this - yippee! Indeed sounds like an eventful Spring/Summertime with lots of fun stuff to do! Excited!
Thanks for clarifying Sapience

Originally Posted by lf2536

passover steed? does it part the waters?

And it should also smell like freshly grated horseradish to keep mobs away from you!

Originally Posted by Sapience

The Anniversary festival will start a little before the actual anniversary, so I'd say closer to mid April than late. And running the Treasure Hunt over easter weekend is entirely possible. Though I wouldn't expect eggs. or Bunnies. Unless you try to picture a cave-claw with fur and big floppy ears...

*looks at my cave-claw mount, and wonders if Sapience has not noticed the cave-claw with the fur and big ears is already in the game*

So, it's our 5th anniversary. Which in both the USA and UK is "wood" themed gifts...I wonder what Turbine will come up with in the way of goodies?

New furniture for housing...say a corner hutch?

A big bonfire yard item, which lights up on use?

Mounts pulling wooden wagons for all that loot?

A huge wooden horse full of Rohirrim to pull into Isengard?

Spring festival for me is, Inn League quests(!!!) and the completion of my Eriador map deed,finally! Well,maybe a new spring festival mount as well? :O

Tentative date for Spring Fest this year May 15th-June 8th per calendar.

The next day more carts rolled up the Hill, and still more carts. There might have been some
grumbling about 'dealing locally', but that very week orders began to pour out of Bag End for every
kind of provision, commodity, or luxury that could be obtained in Hobbiton or Bywater or
anywhere in the neighbourhood. People became enthusiastic; and they began to tick off the days on
the calendar; and they watched eagerly for the postman, hoping for invitations.

Before long the invitations began pouring out, and the Hobbiton post-office was blocked, and
the Bywater post-office was snowed under, and voluntary assistant postmen were called for. There
was a constant stream of them going up the Hill, carrying hundreds of polite variations on --Thank
you, I shall certainly come.--

A notice appeared on the gate at Bag End: NO ADMITTANCE EXCEPT ON PARTY
BUSINESS.

Well, we won't have to wait until September, I'm sure. But I figured this passage would fit well with the anticipation

When i typed /help in game, I found some new emotes in emote list:
/chicken
/dance_dwarf3
/dance_elf3
/dance_hobbit3
/dance_man4

so new dances and funny emotes. Maybe they are coming with Spring fest! Its cool!

Originally Posted by AaylaKheledlire

When i typed /help in game, I found some new emotes in emote list:
/chicken
/dance_dwarf3
/dance_elf3
/dance_hobbit3
/dance_man4

so new dances and funny emotes. Maybe they are coming with Spring fest! Its cool!

CHICKEN ?!?!?! Awesome !!! Hope it's as hilarious as the /toast ...

Originally Posted by Dr.Mindbender

Kinda late for the Spring Fest at this point, considering it's so warm everywhere already. We might hit 80s today & tomorrow here in Boston. Perhaps ME isn't experiencing global warming ...

Heh heh... spoke a little early about the weather there....

Its May 9th, any word on when the Spring Festival will be starting?

Originally Posted by hobbit1968

Its May 9th, any word on when the Spring Festival will be starting?

It's been on the calender as a tentative date for awhile now. May 23 to June 11. The Farmer's Faire is slated for July 18 to August 5.

Originally Posted by Leira

It's been on the calender as a tentative date for awhile now. May 23 to June 11. The Farmer's Faire is slated for July 18 to August 5.

It was scheduled for May 16-June 8 with the Farmer's Faire being July 9-31... looks like they moved it back a week?

Originally Posted by Nyzira

It was scheduled for May 16-June 8 with the Farmer's Faire being July 9-31... looks like they moved it back a week?

Aye, they did move it. Probably because they extended the Anniversary Festival by a week.

Already May 18. Still waiting on Spring Fest to start! Simply cannot wait, I wanna pick up the Inn League Quests again and get my mount!

Originally Posted by The_Elven_Bard

Already May 18. Still waiting on Spring Fest to start! Simply cannot wait, I wanna pick up the Inn League Quests again and get my mount!

Thank you for reminding me, I forgot all about the Inn League!

Spring chicken!! Mmmm....delicious...tasty....

or barbeque spring bacon with cheese!

mmmm.....

Originally Posted by Sapience

This patch has nothing to do with the Spring Festival. That festival has not been cancelled, though it has been pushed back a little bit so that we could address some of the concerns over last year's Anniversary festival and make this year's much better, more fun, and have some cool items for you guys.

It is our 5th Anniversary after all.

You guys did a great job this year. Keep up the good work!

any news here?

Come on, Turbine! Please, last year, when I began to play, I just missed the Spring festival, for one day! I would like to try it, as others, too, I guess.

Spring Fest should start soon, hopefully. I am looking forward to doing the activities this year.

The calendar does have a tentative starting date, Wednesday the 23rd, I guess that's to make sure we all spend our holidays in our families' faces instead of glued to our screens...

Considering we really haven't heard anything about the Spring Fest I don't think it's going to start tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Rwraith

Considering we really haven't heard anything about the Spring Fest I don't think it's going to start tomorrow.

I heard this date last week, so I thoughted I check back today... yours is the only comment from this week, so I'm going to have to say I agree.

I got a real kick out of the guy from Turbine who said that they had to push it back because they wanted to make the 5th anniversay special.... RFLMAO... a letter chasing quest, a bunch of fireworks in two locations (and the six glitched ones we had to track down), thorin photocopy Thorin's brawl that half the people didn't bother with, and a horse with a new saddle that was 2x as much as usual so we could grind more.

I'm seriously hoping they put more thought into the Spring festival, but if all I end up doing is finishing the Map quest I started 1 year ago I wouldn't be surprised, after reading that excuse.

Came here looking for any information - nada. I agree I don't think it's starting tomorrow. If it was cancelled for the Anniversary thingy I would be miffed too.

We as a entire kin started around the Summerfest and I would love to come full circle - but with the 90+ temperatures here and summer creeping up on us it truly feels like there will be no Spring Festival.

Hope Sape or someone comments soon I am worrying now. Love my Fests!

Originally Posted by Newtoo

The calendar does have a tentative starting date, Wednesday the 23rd, I guess that's to make sure we all spend our holidays in our families' faces instead of glued to our screens...

Actually the calendar is says a tentative date of May 24. Keep in mind all calendar dates are entered based on Eastern Time (NYC/Boston). If your timezone is different you may see a different date.

Here's your demanded confirmation

Yay! Posting questions does help. Awesome community here, thanks Sapience!!

They just posted to facebook and twitter that its starting on the 24th. But I would like to point out that the calander does say May 23rd.


"May 23 2012 to Jun 11 2012 09:00 PM to 08:59 AM"

It may be because of time zone but regardless, you cannot say we are wrong just because we live in say... Washington.



But I do have to point out how funny I find it that we are about to celebrate the SPRING festival and I'm suffering in 90 degree weather here! 100 some days, and by the time the festival is coming to an end in mid June it will be a good 110 degrees! Nice Springy weather right! lol

My Dwarf will be wearing her best dress at the fest this year.

I should probably dye it tangerine for the lulz.

Originally Posted by brina_22

But I do have to point out how funny I find it that we are about to celebrate the SPRING festival and I'm suffering in 90 degree weather here! 100 some days, and by the time the festival is coming to an end in mid June it will be a good 110 degrees! Nice Springy weather right! lol

Yes that is why it's not the excitement it was a month ago.

Originally Posted by brina_22

But I do have to point out how funny I find it that we are about to celebrate the SPRING festival and I'm suffering in 90 degree weather here! 100 some days, and by the time the festival is coming to an end in mid June it will be a good 110 degrees! Nice Springy weather right! lol

Hate to break it to ya but not everyone is having your kind of weather, in fact it's not even going to break 75 for at least 2 weeks here so it's very spring like where I live.

Maybe it would be best since this is a world wide game to judge spring by it's dates, not your own special weather patterns.

It's not usually toward the end of spring but I am thankful for an awesome 5th anniversary celebration and can forgive a little delay.

Well if we're going to go by the dates then the spring festival will be ending onlytwo weeks before the first day of summer. That would be June 20th. lol Still more summery than spring in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Narrator, Scene 19

A year passed. Winter changed into Spring. Spring changed into Summer.Summer changed back into Winter. And Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss, and went straight on into Autumn. Until one day...

Yeah, we just had the first day here in Scotland this Spring that actually felt like Spring. Mind you, the harvest of rocks never touched by sunlight was utterly spoilt, but you can't plan for such rare events as sunlight here.