Thread: 5th Anniversary Hub

Originally Posted by Laerien

I'm not a perfect english writer but you seem to have serious reading comprehension problem. I used the word "unfair" for the fact Turbine is giving different treatment to customers based on something they can't change (the joining date).

Only one wins the lottery but the lottery is open for everyone, this is not the case.

LOL, how about you re-read my post? The point I made was, that there are millions of things in this world where you can't go back in time, or otherwise guarantee a desired outcome. That's not unfair. That's life.

I was lucky this time, with my account creation date just before the cut-off. But Turbine could just as well have had a separate set of rewards for people who played on the actual launch day, in which case I would have missed out. If you honestly think this is all unfair, you don't understand the meaning of the word.

I'll help you out again:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/unfair

un·fair #(n-fâr)
adj. un·fair·er, un·fair·est
1. Not just or evenhanded; biased: an unfair call by an umpire.
2. Contrary to laws or conventions, especially in commerce; unethical: unfair trading.
un·fairly adv.
un·fairness n.


Again: your definition of 'fair' is 'getting it your way'.

looking forward to the festival!

I’m a European player who migrated from Codemasters last summer. Will I get anniversary gifts, too?
Yes! We have all the information we need to ensure that even migrated players will receive the appropriate gifts based on their eligible account age and status.

I have multiple LOTRO accounts on my master account. What happens to me?
Each individual eligible account will have the appropriate gifts applied to it.

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question and/or if it has been answered already but can anyone tell me if;

The gifts for all accounts are counted for the "join date" of the oldest account, or for each account individually?

Stupid question.
When is the festival going to start?

I really hope we can turn that double XP thing off.

As a October 2011 premium player I won't get much which is Ok and I realize Turbine can't make everyone happy but perhaps in the future the gifts should be broken into two types:

1) Account-level gifts based, like today, on the join date.

2) Character-level gifts based on Character level.

This would reward both the player longevity and those who have poured a lot of time and effort since joining.

Originally Posted by Daerthil

Stupid question.
When is the festival going to start?

Monday, the 16, probably right the patch is applied

<http://www.lotro.com/component/content/article/76-launcher-news/1909-scheduled-server-downtime-600-am-1100-am-eastern--4-gmt-monday-april-16th->

Where does the "veteran" part of the discussion come from? This is a celebration of the GAMES anniversary not any one player. The top awards go to the players who have been there longest. Turbine COULD quite legitimately given a reward ONLY to those players logged on before a certain date. Try persuading the local bar owner you are 18 or 21 (depending on country you are in) three weeks before your birthday! Bet you will not get served!

Originally Posted by hank7629

As a October 2011 premium player I won't get much which is Ok and I realize Turbine can't make everyone happy but perhaps in the future the gifts should be broken into two types:

1) Account-level gifts based, like today, on the join date.

2) Character-level gifts based on Character level.

This would reward both the player longevity and those who have poured a lot of time and effort since joining.

It would not make a difference. People will complain about it being 'unfair' anyway. The plain truth is, that there is noting at all wrong with any of this, except the odd sense of entitlement that the complainers seem to have.

It's such a crazy twisted way of looking at it, that it makes me laugh out loud.

I wonder if Turbine had announced in, let's say 2006, that they would give cosmetic horses in 2012 to those who subscribed in '07, if any of the complainers would have signed up earlier.

Oh and if their answer to that is 'yes', I am laughing even louder :-)

I'm disappointed that the anniversary gifts specific to Years 1-3 don't have anything unique; that is, the items you receive besides the portrait, cloak and fireworks are items anyone can purchase through the store. I know it's free stuff regardless but part of the reason that I am admittedly envious that I didn't start playing the game until August 2008 is because the 4 and 5 year players get a unique item and I don't. I'm not saying that a 3 year player should get a steed or an outfit but something special for the 3 year players, and the 2 year players, and the 1 year players would have been nice.

Greetings and a Happy 5th Anniversary to everyone.

Yet another EU player here looking to find out when my account was originally created with Codemasters. I've tried the Codemasters Accounts page but I can't seem to login, I just keep getting a "Login failed. We could not retrieve your account." message! Tried changing my password, that worked but still cannot login to my CM account! Even tried contacting CM support and the ticket fails with a "Unable to connect to database" message!

So, is there any other way of finding out when I created my original CM LotRO account? I did play during the beta and am a founder/lifetime subscriber. My Turbine Account shows a Signup date of June 2, 2011 and under "Game Version History" I have the following:
Extra Character Slot
Shadows of Angmar™ Pre-order
Shadows of Angmar™ Trial
Shadows of Angmar™ Dell Bundle
Mines of Moria™ Standard
Shared Storage
Shadows of Angmar™ Mines of Moria Promo
Shadows of Angmar™ Promo
Shadows of Angmar™ Standard
Siege of Mirkwood™
Shadows of Angmar™ Pre-order
(EBGames™/GameStop™)
Extra Character Slot
Rise of Isengard™
Mithril Edition

Any help would be most appreciated.

Originally Posted by GrizzlyUK

Greetings and a Happy 5th Anniversary to everyone.

Yet another EU player here looking to find out when my account was originally created with Codemasters. I've tried the Codemasters Accounts page but I can't seem to login, I just keep getting a "Login failed. We could not retrieve your account." message! Tried changing my password, that worked but still cannot login to my CM account! Even tried contacting CM support and the ticket fails with a "Unable to connect to database" message!

So, is there any other way of finding out when I created my original CM LotRO account? I did play during the beta and am a founder/lifetime subscriber. My Turbine Account shows a Signup date of June 2, 2011 and under "Game Version History" I have the following:
Extra Character Slot
Shadows of Angmar™ Pre-order
Shadows of Angmar™ Trial
Shadows of Angmar™ Dell Bundle
Mines of Moria™ Standard
Shared Storage
Shadows of Angmar™ Mines of Moria Promo
Shadows of Angmar™ Promo
Shadows of Angmar™ Standard
Siege of Mirkwood™
Shadows of Angmar™ Pre-order
(EBGames™/GameStop™)
Extra Character Slot
Rise of Isengard™
Mithril Edition

Any help would be most appreciated.

You need your password from The codemasters days. The one you used to log into eu lotro. I managed to get in right away. Since the COG system is still active, I think you should contact Codemasters support in some way. Perhaps call them?

Originally Posted by GrizzlyUK

Greetings and a Happy 5th Anniversary to everyone.

Yet another EU player here looking to find out when my account was originally created with Codemasters. I've tried the Codemasters Accounts page but I can't seem to login, I just keep getting a "Login failed. We could not retrieve your account." message! Tried changing my password, that worked but still cannot login to my CM account! Even tried contacting CM support and the ticket fails with a "Unable to connect to database" message!

So, is there any other way of finding out when I created my original CM LotRO account? I did play during the beta and am a founder/lifetime subscriber. My Turbine Account shows a Signup date of June 2, 2011 and under "Game Version History" I have the following:
Extra Character Slot
Shadows of Angmar™ Pre-order
Shadows of Angmar™ Trial
Shadows of Angmar™ Dell Bundle
Mines of Moria™ Standard
Shared Storage
Shadows of Angmar™ Mines of Moria Promo
Shadows of Angmar™ Promo
Shadows of Angmar™ Standard
Siege of Mirkwood™
Shadows of Angmar™ Pre-order
(EBGames™/GameStop™)
Extra Character Slot
Rise of Isengard™
Mithril Edition

Any help would be most appreciated.

In any case, Turbine has said that they have the actual account start dates for all migrated European players. So while personally knowing your date might give you peace of mind, it's not necessary for you to get the rewards you qualify for.

Originally Posted by Ronigard

You need your password from The codemasters days. The one you used to log into eu lotro. I managed to get in right away. Since the COG system is still active, I think you should contact Codemasters support in some way. Perhaps call them?

Thanks for your reply, made me re-think which password I was using so I tried an old one and it worked! So, according to my Codemasters Online account:
Product: LOTRO
Creation Date: 16/04/07
Gametime remaining: unlimited
Status: open

Should be eligible for the 5 year gifts then!

Originally Posted by Hrodberht

In any case, Turbine has said that they have the actual account start dates for all migrated European players. So while personally knowing your date might give you peace of mind, it's not necessary for you to get the rewards you qualify for.

It was more for my own peace of mind really, but when I couldn't login to my old Codies account I was a little concerned about what was wrong, but it's all sorted now thankfully.

Good evening!

I don't know if someone else has asked this question earlier in this thread but here it goes.

I have been playing since 29/01/08 but i have payed in periods.
Right know i'm not paying i'm just a Premium guy
My question is if i have to be a VIP to get all my gifts for my four years of playing or is it enough to be Premium?


Thanks in advance!

As long as you are premium by tomorrow you are good to go. Makes me wish I played on my original account instead of my F2P account lmao

My original account is eligible for Y5 rewards and this one is only good for Y1 =(

Originally Posted by Jayarih

As long as you are premium by tomorrow you are good to go. Makes me wish I played on my original account instead of my F2P account lmao

My original account is eligible for Y5 rewards and this one is only good for Y1 =(

Sorry to hear that. I have seen a few folks with similar sad tales - I'm curious why you decided to create a new account rather than use your existing one? I have been visiting EQ2 on occasion and always use my old paid account for my F2P ventures there which ensures I have many year of vet rewards annually.

I forgot exactly why (think it was cause at the time I figured since I didnt have anything beyond SoA since I only was able to play a month that there wasnt really enough of a difference for me to use it again, that and I wanted to see how far I could go on purely F2P) but at the time I just created a new account for the F2P beta and just continued using it. I could just grind on my original account but I have unlocked quite a few stuff already. Bought about 6K tp worth of unlocks on this account for just under 4K spent TP. Its only fluff so Im not too bothered that I cant have that stuff on the account I do play.

Originally Posted by Jayarih

I forgot exactly why (think it was cause at the time I figured since I didnt have anything beyond SoA since I only was able to play a month that there wasnt really enough of a difference for me to use it again, that and I wanted to see how far I could go on purely F2P) but at the time I just created a new account for the F2P beta and just continued using it. I could just grind on my original account but I have unlocked quite a few stuff already. Bought about 6K tp worth of unlocks on this account for just under 4K spent TP. Its only fluff so Im not too bothered that I cant have that stuff on the account I do play.

Cheers - thanks for the info.

Hopefully a true vet reward program will grow out of these anniverasry celebrations so everyone can look forward to nice stuff annually whatever their join date.

Originally Posted by GrizzlyUK

Greetings and a Happy 5th Anniversary to everyone.

Yet another EU player here looking to find out when my account was originally created with Codemasters. I've tried the Codemasters Accounts page but I can't seem to login, I just keep getting a "Login failed. We could not retrieve your account." message! Tried changing my password, that worked but still cannot login to my CM account! Even tried contacting CM support and the ticket fails with a "Unable to connect to database" message!

So, is there any other way of finding out when I created my original CM LotRO account? I did play during the beta and am a founder/lifetime subscriber. My Turbine Account shows a Signup date of June 2, 2011 and under "Game Version History" I have the following:
Extra Character Slot
Shadows of Angmar™ Pre-order
Shadows of Angmar™ Trial
Shadows of Angmar™ Dell Bundle
Mines of Moria™ Standard
Shared Storage
Shadows of Angmar™ Mines of Moria Promo
Shadows of Angmar™ Promo
Shadows of Angmar™ Standard
Siege of Mirkwood™
Shadows of Angmar™ Pre-order
(EBGames™/GameStop™)
Extra Character Slot
Rise of Isengard™
Mithril Edition

Any help would be most appreciated.

If you knew your login details you should have been able to find out the date i just checked mine.

Product: LOTRO

Creation Date: 25/05/07

So awesome lots of free goodies for me :-)

Anyone know if the anniversary gifts will only be granted to characters that exist on (were created by) April 15 (or 17) or will all future characters created on an account get the appropriate gifts as well?

Normally I'd conclude "all future characters," but there was that year that Turbine gave us the Bard discount only on characters that existed during that year's anniversary event. Inconsistency leads to questions and doubts.

Originally Posted by axan

If you knew your login details you should have been able to find out the date i just checked mine.

Product: LOTRO

Creation Date: 25/05/07

So awesome lots of free goodies for me :-)

Indeed, but the initial problem I had was that I was using my normal Codies account login details instead of my Codies Online account details! Ronigard's reply to my post made me realise I was using the wrong account details so I was then able to login and verify my original account creation date.

Fireworks Laden Horse = pure win. LOVE that a flare of sorts is fired off periodically.

Originally Posted by Tenerial

And what does one do if the signup date on their myaccount.turbine.com page is incorrect?

I preordered and bought two lifetime accounts at launch. But due to having too many codes associated with a master account they had to split the two into separate accounts. Now my signup date shows Sept 30, 2009. Which is way wrong.

Guess I call support tomorrow and find out what they can do. I'll be annoyed mightly to find out I'll miss out on the 5 year stuff because of this.

A quick call to Turbine CS straightened this out for me. The young man fixed it faster than it took me to explain it. Anyone else in this situation should call. Kudos to Turbine CS on this.

Originally Posted by Fipiara

Fireworks Laden Horse = pure win. LOVE that a flare of sorts is fired off periodically.

That sounds pretty full of win.

Originally Posted by Astatine

29/04/2008 still shows up on Codemasters' system for my account, but it hasn't received anything.

I believe this is probably because whoever wrote the scripts to award anniversary swag to EU transfers was not aware of one of the historical edge-cases.

Players who had already transferred a DDO account from Codemasters to Turbine, or who had already created a US DDO account that had the same name as the EU Lotro account they needed to transfer were required to use a new name for the transferred account. I expect any other name clash situations also required the transferring account to be renamed. Obviously this was not intended to prejudice their seniority or subscription status.

In my case the account is a lifetime account with about ten characters, mostly on one former EU server. I doubt anyone else will be using its old name, besides my DDO account, but the rewards belong with the characters, especially those which were actually created 4 years ago.

What is the way forward for people in this situation?

I do/did not have a DDO account, but I changed my account name when migrating from EU/Codemasters to US/Turbine. The details listed:

- Started on EU server Laurelin in April 2008, played a couple of months paying a monthly subscription.
- After a half year or so I got myself a lifetime account.
- Did the migration last year from Codemasters to Turbine and I choose a different account name than I used for my Cog account.
- I received all the 4-year gifts on the two character I played with yesterday.
- I do (and did not) not use my Turbine and Codemaster accounts for other games.

Hope this helps.

I'm lifetimer, played lotro since codemaster management 2007, always full account and Turbine give me 3 years avatar...

Originally Posted by whh82

I do/did not have a DDO account, but I changed my account name when migrating from EU/Codemasters to US/Turbine. The details listed:

- Started on EU server Laurelin in April 2008, played a couple of months paying a monthly subscription.
- After a half year or so I got myself a lifetime account.
- Did the migration last year from Codemasters to Turbine and I choose a different account name than I used for my Cog account.
- I received all the 4-year gifts on the two character I played with yesterday.
- I do (and did not) not use my Turbine and Codemaster accounts for other games.

Hope this helps.

Actually, it looks like a false alarm, at least in part. I've deleted the original post because the second time I logged in today (after posting) a 4-year giftbox appeared. I don't have the portrait frames yet, but it looks like Turbine did not forget those who had to rename transferred accounts after all. I'm off to try my luck in the beerfight

Happy Anniversary everyone!

Originally Posted by Astatine

Actually, it looks like a false alarm, at least in part. I've deleted the original post because the second time I logged in today (after posting) a 4-year giftbox appeared. I don't have the portrait frames yet, but it looks like Turbine did not forget those who had to rename transferred accounts after all. I'm off to try my luck in the beerfight

Happy Anniversary everyone!

Happy Anniversary!

I assume you checked the portrait frame by right-clicking on your portret? They do not appear in you bags, they are just available for selection when you right-click your portrait in game.

Shouldn't the portrait frames available be universal per account? Of my 9 characters, most could select the 'year 5' frame but some could only pick '1', some could pick '4', and another few could go to year '3'. There did not appear to be any correlation between char-gen date or char-level.

Originally Posted by auximenes

Shouldn't the portrait frames available be universal per account? Of my 9 characters, most could select the 'year 5' frame but some could only pick '1', some could pick '4', and another few could go to year '3'. There did not appear to be any correlation between char-gen date or char-level.

You should have the same year on all characters on one account. This seems to be a problem some people are having. Try relogging and see what's available to you then.

Originally Posted by whh82

Happy Anniversary!

I assume you checked the portrait frame by right-clicking on your portrait? They do not appear in you bags, they are just available for selection when you right-click your portrait in game.

Thanks, that was it!

Just wanted to say thanks to Turbine for the gifts and the games to Celebrate the 5th anniversary with.I missed the 4 year gifts by a month, but I just like getting free gifts. lol.. maybe winning a horse in the "Lost Invitations" Quest has put me in a even better mood, but I've enjoyed everything except the fireworks in the Shire, and that's only cause I haven't caught two other people there at the same time....

Happy 5th, LOTRO..and all it's players, even if you just started playing today!

Originally Posted by LOTRO_addict

I've enjoyed everything except the fireworks in the Shire, and that's only cause I haven't caught two other people there at the same time....

Don't bother with the Shire fireworks unless you have AT LEAST 3. If you attempt it with 2 folks, you both better be pro And awake. Flunked it twice, then realized the other person must have gone afk halfway through. Two might be feasible, but even when a different 2nd person tried it with me, the hobbits weren't impressed.

Two is quite possible, if you're coordinated. Me and my wife did it.

There's a tight row of launchers along the front end of the stage on each side. Place yourself at the middle of one and you can launch all of that row without moving. One person at each of those rows and you can keep launching continually. If both do that, you'll succeed, but not by a big margin