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Out of curiosity, why did you cancel your facebook account to create another one?

Been free of the beast for almost 2 years. Its liberating and interesting. As people have to actually call to invite me to stuff, really lets you know who gives a fuck and who doesn't.

Also Dig, we punish you but ....

I decided, post Timeline, that I really didn't need everyone to see what I looked like and did in high school.

Since Facebook did everything it could to make automatic profile cleaning impossible, I just decided to create a new one.

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So is anyone playing (or did they try) MoP?

They have a 10 day trial thing for existing accounts. Figure I might as well see what they've been up to. Considering I have no expectations, I might actually have some fun. I've kind of missed not having an MMO to play for the past few months. Well, I still have GW2, but I haven't felt like playing it since November.

Edited, Feb 23rd 2013 10:01am by idiggory

Not playing MoP and I have no temptation to try it either. I do kind of miss playing an MMO but there's just not an MMO out now that's interesting.

I'm getting sucked back into EVE. I love the overwhelming detail and depth, yet I hate the overwhelming detail and depth. Getting lost in the market/production aspects is a killer.

And PvP. Well, it is a PvP game, with certain areas for carebears to hang out.

It's nice though, that after a couple of months you can make enough in-game currency to play for free. With no limitations.



I'm a little carebear out in the field
Here is my blaster, here is my shield
When I get painted watch me run
Just scramble and burn me, I am done

The biggest problem for me is that the story is ALWAYS my number one concern in games. I will tolerate attrocious combat for a good story. I rarely play games with amazing combat if the story doesn't interst me.

But as of Cataclysm, I'm just not loving it. The whole story line became too separated from the essence of what WoW was originally about--the daily life of people. Which is ironic, considering it revamped the old world. Which was great, but the endgame story was completely disconnected from the average person in the WoW universe. Just about everything in the story came down to Immortals, and the people were along for the ride.

I feel like MoP could be better, by not having a big bad. I was originally turned off by Pandaria, just because it felt too much like fan service, but I've HEARD it was well done. I know I don't like where they've brought character customization; I definitely prefer talent trees. I like making decisions while I level and absolutely hated the Cataclysm system. I didn't like making a decision only every 3 (or whatever) levels. I'm guessing every 15 isn't going to be fun.

/shrug.

As for TOR, I just don't understand their decisions. At all. All of them make the worst aspects of the game even worse (traveling, for one), and make the good aspects of the game harder to access (story).

And the thing is, they have a lot of competition in the market. TSW and GW2 are both flat-cost games that use microtransactions primarily for aesthetic things that don't have a meaningful impact on the game. EQ2 and LOTRO are both more oldschool F2P models, with unlocks for races and such, but you can actually play the game without them, and most unlocks seem to only matter for endgame, or their aesthetic (like a larger, shared wardrobe).

There's also AION, but I haven't really looked at their system, so I don't know how it is.

Then you have RIFT and WoW, both of which are subs, but have free-to-20 systems and ship out content at an incredible rate (it's worth noting that GW2 has put out just about as much content since its launch as TOR has, despite TOR being out almost a year when it launched).

It boggles my mind why they would make such poor decisions. Ditto goes for making FFXIV sub-based. At this point, what they need to do is attract players. I have no doubts the game will be vastly better when it launches again, but they've already failed once. Not going F2P is just worrisome.

I'm hoping Wildstar will be as fun as it seems. I'm not sold on what I've seen of the combat, but I'll grant that it is at least new enough and unique enough it could work.

Yeah, most people just understand meters/feet better, so that's what Rolex started using on the first dive watches. I believe Panerai picked it up for their dive watches as well, and it's kind of been the standard ever since.

A sapphire crystal shouldn't cost that much (probably $50-100) to have replaced.

I'm drinking a stout with coffee that smells more like coffee than my morning coffee.

Prepare to buy AC2 when you're done with 1. Just because of the cliffhabger/mind@#%^ ending. And then the same for AC2 and brotherhood and then revelations and AC3.

Yeah I prefer talent trees too, or at least something where you're doing something to develop your character every level. The gaps make leveling up almost feel worthless. For what it's worth its not as terrible of a system as I feared, and the choices they have you make are interesting, but there are so few now it's kinda a bummer.

Guessing I'll probably cap a character or two, PvP a little, and move on in a month or two.


I really don't get it much either. It really feels like they don't want a F2P/micro-transaction game and they're trying to make it as painful as possible to force you to subscribe. I'm glad I followed it closely and planned ahead as it took a lot of the sting out; coming in unprepared to the model is either be expensive or frustrating. Not so good.

Lol, I stopped drinking after that point. I tend to be a happy drunk and I didn't want to give people the perception that I like and value their company.

hey let's drunk post!

Edit: nobody? Fine. I see how it is.

Edited, Feb 24th 2013 3:43am by IDrownFish

Though, to be fair, you'd probably still be drunk.

That's no fun.

because everyone is taking their sunday nap

I woke up and thought it was Monday. Was so happy when I found out it was Sunday. Now it's Monday, though...

By the way Maz, you should go check out the OoT. It's actually not dead for a change.



All thanks to Bijou of all people.

I did pretty much nothing at all today. It's snowing and I didn't want to disturb the pretty snow so I stayed inside and drank hot chocolate milk.



Also, at least you get extra pay because it's Sunday so yay for that?

I knew what you meant. Also the ped0 filter was added much later than the others, although I can't remember why anymore.

It's actually law here that on Sundays you get extra pay, although I think it's 50% extra here.

I saw the post but it was like midnight, I wasn't drunk yet, and I was really sleepy.

I think I'm old.

You guys should read this. Both the article it links to and the top comment.

I know, it's shocking.

I was already aware of prisons in Norway that are like that, from watching Sicko. It was a bit of a tangent on Moore's part, but he spent about 10-15 minutes on Norway's prisons. Though he made it sound like all of their prisons are like that. Still, interesting read, thanks Aeth.

I actually get the feeling that part of why my day was calmer is because everyone else was too busy to take too much time to train me, so they just relegated me to tasks they knew I could do without guidance. XD