LOTRO will be celebrating their 5th year as an MMORPG and are giving presents away to players as a thank you. The celebrations will run from April 16 – April 31st and the gifts you receive will be based on your account status as of April 15th.
Gifts will be granted to your account on April 17th. Here’s a run down of the presents:
All Players:
- New Unique Fireworks
- Special Anniversary Cloak
Premium & VIP Players:
For Premium and VIP players gifts will range based on the number of years your account has been active. This is based on account status as of April 15th so if you are not currently premium or VIP and want rewards listed below, you have until then to change your account status.
1-Year (April 30, 2011 or earlier)
- A 1-year character portrait frame
- Fireworks
- An Anniversary Cloak
2-Years (April 30, 2010 or earlier)
- A 2-year character portrait frame
- 3 +10% Run Speed Boost (60 min)
- 1 +5% Attack Damage (90 min)
- 10 Battle Potion of Restoration
- Fireworks
- An Anniversary Cloak
3-Years (April 30, 2009 or earlier)
- A 3-year character portrait frame
- 3 Loot box keys
- Fireworks
- An Anniversary Cloak
4-Years (April 30, 2008 or earlier)
- A 4-year character portrait frame
- New Azure Festival Clothing
- Fireworks
- An Anniversary Cloak
5-Years (June 30, 2007 or earlier)
- A 5- year character portrait frame
- Festive Azure Steed
- New Azure Festival Clothing to match your steed
- Fireworks
- An Anniversary Cloak
Pictures of the special character portrait frames are available to see on the LOTRO Announcement.
Not sure when you started playing? Head to https://myaccount.turbine.com and login. Your “Signup Date” is listed under your LOTRO Subscription.
I have not yet seen what the Azure Steed or the Azure Festival clothing looks like (trust me there will be a post when we do get it). I am assuming the picture in the post is a sneak preview of these items.
We do know what the Anniversary Cloak looks like as Turbine handed out some at PAX East this year. Let me just say that it is beautiful! Cosmetic lovers will also want to know that it is not able to be dyed. Still, it is gorgeous!
Special thank you to our friend Michael and to Sapience for getting a cloak for Ketani and I! We are very happy!
For more details on how this event works and how the prizes are distributed, visit LOTRO’s official announcement. There’s an FAQ that should handle most of your questions.
April 12, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Sounds like the anniversary festival this year is going to be really nice for both, the people who are able to participate, and those who are not. I can’t wait! [:
April 13, 2012 at 2:36 am
No, I just lokked at the signup-date in the webside and there ist June 2, 2011, which is the migration date to Turbine, not my initial signup!!!
I was playing as VIP for over three years
April 13, 2012 at 2:39 am
Oops, sorry, wrong place for reply
April 13, 2012 at 10:03 am
According to http://www.lotro.com/gameinfo/1894
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.
April 12, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Ooh, I really hope that we European Codemasters players gets rewarded for our services aswell. I mean so that Turbine doesn’t think that we transferred players actually started playing when we got transferred!
April 12, 2012 at 1:47 pm
No need to worry, they say it’s covered on the Turbine page for it.
“…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.”
April 12, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Don’t worry, Turbine has our original EU subscription start dates
April 12, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Aah yes, I really hope that their accounting department has a flawless record of our accounts… *cough*
April 13, 2012 at 7:21 am
1st june 2011 according to turbine. Cogaccounts (codies) still has eu lotro sub and the beta listed there. Good to see codies might still be looking after our lotro subs in some sense.
April 13, 2012 at 1:07 am
I play LOTRO for 4 years, but my sign up date is at 2011 so I have no chance to get rewards
April 13, 2012 at 2:38 am
No, I just looked at the signup-date in the webside and there ist June 2, 2011, which is the migration date to Turbine, not my initial signup!!!
I was playing as VIP for over three years
April 12, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Wish they would’ve advertised the game better when it first came out and I would’ve gotten it sooner. Didn’t know it existed until all the ads for f2p came out. Nice to get something though. I like the portraits a lot.
Sign up date September 12, 2010
April 12, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Very close to my sign up date Royalbob…Sept 10, 2010 for me. Played WoW for about three years before discovering LoTRO, and haven’t looked back.
April 13, 2012 at 12:23 am
Same :S Well, at least we’ll get fireworks!
April 12, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Looks very nice indeed! Looking forward to all the shinies and new Steed
Maybe a good idea for your next poll: how long have you been playing Lotro? Just started, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 years?
April 12, 2012 at 2:24 pm
great idea
April 12, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Anyone know what the Elvish script on the back of the cloak means?
April 12, 2012 at 2:53 pm
My understanding is its supposed to be ‘five’. ..possibly ‘five years’
April 12, 2012 at 11:36 pm
Yeah, Crell has it. The three glyphs represent the sounds of L, B and N respectively, and the acute accents (tehtar) above the latter two give a short “e” sound before them.
five ◈ leben S. [lˈɛbɛn] (lheben N.) adj. num. card. five
April 12, 2012 at 2:58 pm
You can log into your old Codemasters account and check there:
April 12, 2012 at 2:59 pm
Looks like I joined 20th June 2007
April 13, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Hi, i just checked my Cog account but i can’t find any day there, where did you find it exactly?
April 12, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Signup Date
March 5, 2007
I got the email for my beta invite in February, but unfortunately I [still] rarely check my emails. =P
April 12, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Curious as to whether these are cumulative lists… I’m 4 years; will I be seeing run speed boosts and loot box keys in my inventory as well? Or only the stuff listed under 4 years?
April 12, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Never mind… a further read sorted that out. Not clearly worded, but I think I get it.
“Each eligible player will receive the gifts for their highest year and all subsequent years.”
April 12, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Do we know what (if anything) a person gets if they have played for less than a full calendar year?
April 12, 2012 at 4:53 pm
oh, one of those…I thought character portrait was refering to housing :}
April 12, 2012 at 6:26 pm
lol…I thought the same.
April 12, 2012 at 7:20 pm
Character pic frames will get the change but it would be awesome if they also gave those same frames for our forum accounts. What say you?
April 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm
Will we be able to barter for the clothes and horse if our accounts aren’t old enough to be given them?
April 12, 2012 at 8:29 pm
This is really nice. Looks like Turbine was really working to make this special. It’s great. Looking forward to opening my mail on the 16th and to the new fireworks!
Beldwyl/Bellcari/Belwynne Landroval
April 12, 2012 at 9:59 pm
I started playing in July 2007 because I had to wait for some money to get the game. I won’t get a steed. *pouts* And I hope Turbine DOES actually realise I played that early because the account page says June 2011.
The prezzies look nice though – I just wish I could get the horsie. I like horsies.
April 13, 2012 at 3:53 am
the most important question: rewards for ALL characters or only the one you login first?
April 13, 2012 at 7:23 am
If it’s based on the account status then it should hopefully be account wide.
April 13, 2012 at 10:34 am
i hope so. but its very strange that they didnt say anything about this on their FAQ…
April 13, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Hi,
I already posted in the forums, but I have to say that I felt insulted by the anniversary gift announcements. They’re not rewarding people who play regularly, who participate in skirmishes and kinships, crafting and who spend money in the LOTRO store. No, simply by when they signed up. So I, and many like me, who didn’t discover MMOs and LOTRO( my only MMO) until after last April are penalized and get no anniversary gifts.
It made me so angry when I read it, I decided to call Turbine and tell them just how I felt, but only after I calmed down.
I think whoever designed this way of giving away anniversary gifts should have polled members about what criteria they felt would be fair. This certainly isn’t fair and I’m still angry about it.
Turbine and LOTRO are really antagonizing loyal players by taking this stand and choosing the criteria of how long the player has been enrolled in the game. Some of us were not fortunate enough to have discover LOTRO years ago, so now we are penalized. That just stinks.
April 13, 2012 at 9:38 pm
You have a good point based on the fact that since you discovered the game you’ve put regular money into it and spent a lot of time on it. I can understand the annoyance because there will be people who’ve had an account for a long time and may have been inactive for a while but activate it again to get goodies (and yes I agree that’s unfair).
However there’s also the other side. There are people who have been playing since the game launched in april 2007. Some of those have bought lifetime subs and never paid a subscription fee, but others will have paid their subs every month since launch. Those people will have put a LOT of money and time into the game. They’re the people who had to grind like crazy for rep items to turn in rather than gaining it from tasks. They’re the people who had to wait until level 50 before they could start gaining rep in places like Bree because there were no scaleable instances and you couldn’t even go into the dungeon until you were at the (then) level cap (it took me months to get a cheese to drop in there and it makes me a little sad when I see a level 20 running around with ‘The Unwise’ title that I spent so long trying for).
During the course of its life, people who’ve been playing since the start of the game have seen so many aspects become easier, especially in the last 18 months or so since the introduction of f2p and the store. Anyone remember having to run everywhere until you got to level 35?
While I agree that the way they’re tiering the gifts may seem unfair to you who have only been playing a year or so but have been loyal in that time, I think their intent was to reward the players who’ve put several years’ worth of money and time into the game as well. Imagine how the founders and people who’ve been playing since launch would feel if everyone got all the shiniest gifts? It’s not their fault you didn’t find the game until last year. I’m not saying it’s yours either, but you can’t really blame Turbine.
April 16, 2012 at 7:28 am
About the rewards, its ok to give long time players better rewards.
Still, i would have felt a lot better had i know that when i will reach my 5 year time in LotRO, i would too get the horse the many people will get today, instead of newer ever having a chance…
April 16, 2012 at 11:54 pm
I activated my account when it was on beta 2007 but only started to play f2p on sept 2010 , I hope I get 5 years rewards :p