LOTRO Events Schedule

[Beia]

I and many truly love the Farmer's Faire. It's the one festival that feels and demonstrates a following of the Lord of the Rings Lore, more than any of the other festivals. This festival lets us feel that kindred spirit of friendship and fun with the hobbits of the Shire as they prepare for and enjoy and typical Shire party. The first time I played this festival I had such a great time participating in the hobbits' antics and Shire "life". Please keep it intact. LOTRO needs to protect the integrity of the homage to the books within the gameplay.

I Agree

[Shaleth]

There is no mention of encores for the faire events. Will you please do encores for them? I'm looking for the Anni encore atm.

How do you do this!? " the only things I still enjoy from that event is trying to get cosmetic pets from Cord and the GMs,"???

Thank you!!

[femgamer900]

Because of ppl coming back to game because of special, I see a lot of chatter in world of ppl want repeat seasonal event to get dances. I also need dances...waiting till mid June...so hard, so hard lol. Thanks for your consideration..

Play on

[Shadowvisitodir]

Will any event start tomorrow?

[Cordovan]

Quick Update: The Summer Festival has been rescheduled, and will run at the same time as the Farmer's Faire. The timing will be: 8/20/20@10am Eastern to 9/7/20@3am eastern. Exact timing subject to change, but that's where it sits currently.

[Trendafil]

The Summer Festival [...] will run at the same time as the Farmer's Faire.

Meh.

[LeRaginAsian]

Meh.

Ditto. Dual festivals sounds messy.

What's the reason for this? More time/resources/focus on Aragorn and Arwen's wedding? Will there still be an update to either's quests or just rewards?

[wispsong]

Ditto. Dual festivals sounds messy.

What's the reason for this? More time/resources/focus on Aragorn and Arwen's wedding? Will there still be an update to either's quests or just rewards?

Not necessarily messy since they are both in Hobbinton but most certainly time consuming. I hope they run longer because it will take twice as much time per character to finish them. I rather have the Farmers Faire and Fall Festival together though since I rarely do the last. But that is just personal preference. Best would be to have them separate even if they run back to back.

[ZoneTripper]

That's going to be exhausting for those of us that like to do every festival activity every day. The multiple fishing quests for the Summer festival alone last 20 minutes each, requiring over an hour to complete them. Also, will each festival-specific horse race be running during this?

[Galuhad]

Quick Update: The Summer Festival has been rescheduled, and will run at the same time as the Farmer's Faire. The timing will be: 8/20/20@10am Eastern to 9/7/20@3am eastern. Exact timing subject to change, but that's where it sits currently.

Do you mean 6/20/20?

[YamydeAragon]

Do you mean 6/20/20?

He means from August 20, 2020 at 10:00 AM (east coast) to September 7, 2020 at 3:00 AM (east coast).

[Thornglen]

Ditto. Dual festivals sounds messy.

What's the reason for this? More time/resources/focus on Aragorn and Arwen's wedding? Will there still be an update to either's quests or just rewards?

From what I recall on the livestream, one reason was they have not had enough time to work on new things for the summer festival. Probably a good chance the craziness of the past few months is a big factor.

Also, it did not seem like this would be a permanent change in schedule, so my hope is that summer will be back around where it used to be for 2021. Especially since the end of August and beginning of September tend to be times I can't get in there to play as much.

[Olgomil]

Quick Update: The Summer Festival has been rescheduled, and will run at the same time as the Farmer's Faire. The timing will be: 8/20/20@10am Eastern to 9/7/20@3am eastern. Exact timing subject to change, but that's where it sits currently.

Please adapt the item costs to the situation, running both festivals at the same time is a bad thing for collectors like me. Normally i play each festival with all my alts and if both run at the same time and the item cost is not halved, no way to get all new things for my characters...

Sergio :-)

[Laurelinarien]

While I get that, about costs adjusted, I'd love to see it too... there's also the fact that they won't be adding anything new for Farmers Faire. And I guess they'll be separate wrapper quests, but unless you're missing something from FF, I don't think the "grind" will be there.

[Elmagor]

Please adapt the item costs to the situation, running both festivals at the same time is a bad thing for collectors like me. Normally i play each festival with all my alts and if both run at the same time and the item cost is not halved, no way to get all new things for my characters...

Sergio :-)

I hope even with that move they can update Farmer's Faire in the future if they find love to it and time for such work

[Inkling]

Also, will each festival-specific horse race be running during this?

The horse race quests aren't really festival specific - they just run during festivals. Their quests don't count toward any festival completions.

[Inkling]

Normally i play each festival with all my alts and if both run at the same time and the item cost is not halved, no way to get all new things for my characters...

If you do the Inn League League/Ale Association quests run, you'll get more tokens for less time -- especially with multiple alts. Only takes about 30 mins, and you can still do as much of the Festival as you want.

[EricofWildwood]

Quick Update: The Summer Festival has been rescheduled, and will run at the same time as the Farmer's Faire. The timing will be: 8/20/20@10am Eastern to 9/7/20@3am eastern. Exact timing subject to change, but that's where it sits currently.

REALLY dislike this idea. I never post on the forums. Between the time consuming eating/drinking races and fishing from Summer and the multitude of Mushroom/Egg/Fishing deeds from FF this is gonna be a pain for altoholics given only the same amount of time. Also, I assume this means less horses, cosmetics, and housing decorations? :'(

[MidEastFox]

thought summer stuff begins around the 21st of june

[Arially]

Quick Update: The Summer Festival has been rescheduled, and will run at the same time as the Farmer's Faire. The timing will be: 8/20/20@10am Eastern to 9/7/20@3am eastern. Exact timing subject to change, but that's where it sits currently.

I can't begin to express how frustrating this is. Summer is my favorite festival and a good deal about my current excitement in playing the game was knowing that it would only be a few weeks until Summer Fest. now, not only is it months away, it isn't even being given it's own time? especially since the hobbit fest areas aren't layered so with only 1 set of fest quests, the area is beyond laggy. (PLEASE PLEASE layer the hobbit fest areas please)

I understand that you are planning a big event this summer for the wedding and all but does it really need to step on already established events to work?

[MuteSwan]

I really hope the Inn League/Ale Association quests are available during the combined festival. I know they aren't around for the FF or anniversary, and I just worry the fact that FF is included might somehow make them disappear. Having them up would certainly make dealing with two festivals much easier.

[Olgomil]

there's also the fact that they won't be adding anything new for Farmers Faire.

Its confirmed there are no new items/horse/cosmetics/etc in Farmers Faire 2020?

Sergio :-)

[Oddessia]

Its confirmed there are no new items/horse/cosmetics/etc in Farmers Faire 2020?

Sergio :-)

Yes, its confirmed. Cord stated it in his stream 2 weeks ago.

And in case SSG didn't see my post on the thread about this Im going to post it here.

"I REALLLYYYYY dislike this change. I mean...I effin hate it.

There's no festivals at all for ELEVEN weeks in June and July/Aug...so you're telling me the Wedding is ELEVEN weeks long?? So long that Summerfest just must be at the same time as Farmers Faire? Come on.

Or is this more a, "we dont have the resources (cause wedding) so we're not actually done the new summerfest rewards, and nothing is ready," scenario. Fine, so then move it to the end of July, or beginning of August. Not at the freaking exact Farmers Faire time!

Cord mentioned 2 streams ago that there'll be no new FF rewards this year, so basically you guys are just ditching Farmers Faire entirely and are trying to let us off easy. PLEASE please please dont! You know how many people grind festivals, I know you do. Doing this just...nope. I have a hard time believing that in the 11 weeks between now and FF - you cant find TWO for summerfest. FF is one of the best, easiest ways to get fest tokens, if you have to ditch something, ditch Spring fest where the quests reward a pithy 1 token each.


At least if this situation is because of lack of resources, please tell me this is just for this year only (since next year the wedding wont need to be completely created from scratch, only turned on) and will be changed back next year. Please...as a fest addict this hurts my soul :P"

-Ods

[ZoneTripper]

The horse race quests aren't really festival specific - they just run during festivals. Their quests don't count toward any festival completions.

Even though it's the same activity, the horse races are festival-specific and give out festival tokens. Hopefully, both versions will be active, allowing players to earn the tokens from each one.

Also, it's understandable that the Farmer's Faire won't have any new festival rewards, but maybe SSG can at least make something as simple as some new titles, or make older festival steeds that are currently purchasable for mithril available to earn for festival tokens. That would give some incentive to participate in it.

[femgamer900]

I understand a lot going on with the free event, but changing the date in this manner messes up so much. As mentioned above and so many of us want the dances. Bad idea and if theres any way you can re -adjust, please do.