Hello there and welcome to this week's edition of the Asheron's Call update!

The August event, Corrupted Sovereigns is scheduled to go live on Tuesday August 21st. We will be having the normal downtime window of 8am EDT - 3pm EDT. As always, this date is subject to change if we find that we need more time.

A reminder that PAX is creeping up on us fast, so if you are going and would like to meet some of the people who make Turbine great, please feel free to stop by our booth on the exhibition floor. Also, if you want to take part in the AC dinner that Gouru is putting together, please let him know soon. You can read all about that dinner here.

The forums are being scheduled for an upgrade and an update in the coming weeks. Among the features we are planning to add, is the CMS system, which will allow us to place news and updates on the front page of the forums. You can view an example of how this will look by checking out http://forums.lotro.com/. We feel this will help us get news and important announcements out to the community much easier. We will also be adding an infraction system to the forums that will allow us to moderate and keep track of things much easier. Once this new system goes live, we will give you all of the details.

When the September event goes live, we will no longer be paying the housing maintenance across all worlds. We want to be sure that everyone has plenty of notice on this, so we will be adding this announcement to the launcher, including the actual date that this will happen. Please make sure that you make arrangements to pay your maintenance once we have stopped doing so.

Last but not least, we will be running a series of live lore based events for the August event. We have a set schedule for these events, but we will also be running them randomly as well. Our goal is as always, to let as many people as possible participate in these events. The scheduled events are as follows:

Frostfell- August 22, Wednesday, 8pm EST

Harvestgain- August 23, Thursday, 8pm EST

Leafcull- August 24, Friday, 8pm EST

Morningthaw- August 25, Saturday, 3pm EST

Solclaim- August 26, Sunday, 3pm EST

Thistledown- August 27, Monday, 8pm EST

Verdantine- August 28, Tuesday, 8pm EST

Wintersebb- August 29, Wednesday, 8pm EST

Darktide- August 30, Thursday, 8pm EST

Thats about it for this week. Everyone have a great day, and see you all in Dereth!