September 10th is the final day of the Summer Festival! Make sure you turn in all your summer tokens and buy up all the goodies you were hoping for this weekend.
All the summer festival items including the horses, costumes and furniture will not be available again until next year!
The summer tokens and the festival tickets will not expire so if you simply wish to keep a stash to use later, that will work.
You can use our Summer Festival Guide to help you make sure there wasn’t a special item you missed!
September 7, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Shame really they have yet to fix the dwarf races, still not working on the Eldar server. Dont think we’ll see a fix now.
September 7, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Typical that they haven’t fixed it before it’s done :/
September 7, 2012 at 3:58 pm
Yeah, I was hoping to finish all of those race deeds this time around. Hopefully I can at least catch the four more Starry Flounders I need on both of my characters!!
September 7, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Really disappointed that the dwarf races weren’t fixed. Been waiting all year to finish the Lucky Duck achievement.
September 7, 2012 at 10:33 pm
haven’t been able to do the summer festival in two years, and all i needed for the lucky duck title was one more dwarf
September 7, 2012 at 10:54 pm
I hope they add something new to the summer fest next year. It seems to me to be the most difficult one to obtain tokens on. The daily quests only reward one each, and the races are so random that it’s possible to bet all your tickets and not win a single one – at least this year they added the consolation token. The fishing is I think supposed to be a way to get more tokens, but with it all being down to luck, I’ve fished every day and not caught enough of anything to barter for tokens, which is frustrating.
By contrast the other festivals seem to have quests where you can obtain larger numbers of tokens in one go (or at least more frequentl) – eg the shrew quests in spring and eating quests at Yule.
In other news, I saw dwarf races running correctly today (Friday) on Snowbourn, so maybe they finally got it fixed? They should have just left it where it was – it worked fine before they moved them inside.
September 8, 2012 at 1:00 am
1. Good thing I finished all the race deeds last year, yes, all the way up to /heave, so I can avoid this mess of a race.
2. Next year they should allow you to bet on as many racers as you have tokens on. I look at it as fair, if you put more tokens down, your chance goes up – simple!
September 8, 2012 at 8:49 am
I preferred having the races out in the world where they would actually become part of it instead of being stuck in an instance. I can see the theory of why they did it but cant see why they didnt retain the last years races until they had the new stuff running, no pun intended.
It’s the kind of thing I do if I have the tokens and am passing by for whatever reason but not if I have to swap to a zone just to sit and watch npc’s vanish.
September 8, 2012 at 10:26 pm
I wondered that too. The Hobbit instance is very pretty and peaceful to hang around in, but it’s a bit wasted because it also screams ‘This was made for THIS event!’. I’m not even sure WHY they moved the races out of the world. The Dwarf area wasn’t so bad, but the place where the Hobbits used to run is now empty but looks like there should be *something* happening. It’s a bit of a shame.
September 8, 2012 at 3:56 pm
I have been so bummed about the festivals and Turbine in general I haven’t really been playing at all.
It really feels like they just stopped caring about anything but the next expansion…. sigh… cry… pout.
September 8, 2012 at 10:32 pm
I’m not sure that’s entirely true. This festival didn’t have anything new, that’s true (moving the races doesn’t count as new stuff), but they DID add an entirely new festival a couple of months ago, and that was fun. They did also have new events in the Spring festival with the fireworks. Actually, given that the Summer festival has always had the firework-gathering quest, I had semi-expected them to put the firework quests in Bree back in for this one too.
What I think is an issue with the festivals, is that they’re not evenly spaced. There’s a big gap between the Yule and Spring ones, and then a big-ish gap again before Summer. Then Autumn and Yule come rather quickly after the Summer one. It makes people bored of them, but they could space them out a lot better than they do.
September 9, 2012 at 12:22 am
Not sure if you meant to reply to me I didn’t say anything about something new from the quote.
I do agree the spacing is really odd. Sept 19 is Pirate Day, wondering if they are going to do their pirate “mini” fest again.
Not too keen on the Farmer’s fest, it too was bugged and frustrating. We have been taking bets on how they will muck up the Harvest Fest this year with all the changes and broken down deeds from the last few festivals.
September 9, 2012 at 3:49 pm
It was originally meant to be a reply about Turbine not caring and just counting down to the expansion, but it kinda turned into something different.
I didn’t have any problems with the Farmer festival, except I did hate the egg hunt thing which never seemed to drop enough eggs in what seemed to be a very short time limit. Other people found that easy so I don’t think it was a bug, more me being pants at it. I loved the mushroom one.
I can’t remember what’s unique to the autumn festival that they can wreck.
September 11, 2012 at 3:56 pm
The Haunted Barrow is an Autumn festival event, right?
September 11, 2012 at 4:55 pm
The Summer Festival is extended through next Sunday. (Ends Monday, Sept 17th @ 12am EST)
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?478495-Summer-Festival-2012-end-date-and-Dwarf-keg-race-status&p=6411205#post6411205
September 11, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Thank you so much for posting Bradan!!! I didn’t know and was sad cause this year I couldn’t make to play the summer festival, and today when doing routine check on my alts I noticed the dance leader was there. First thing I did was come to CSTM in order to check if it was extended. What a great news for me hehehe