Less Isn't More. More Is More!

Curious to see how perceptions vary. For Tipa there's way too much, for Keen there's far too little. Me, my head is about ready to explode as my struggling MMO mind tries to calibrate the possibilities. If Calvin would just lend me his Duplicator...

I'd buy Gems for one of these

Rift going F2P affects me not. Storm Legion did nothing for me other than kill most of the remaining interest I had. I'm already paid up until somewhere around November but I've yet to log in this year so nothing changes there.

Still subbed to all SOE games and playing virtually none of them. Try and get at least a few hours of EQ2, DCUO, Everquest and/or Vanguard in each month but its a real struggle finding time. Thought I would be back in EQ2 for the third slice of Velious but that would really be a waste without being able to level over 92. I'm not throwing away all that xp and all the gear requires 93 at least so that's on the back burner until we decide to get Chains of Eternity, which may never happen.

Neverwinter remains that new game I like but not enough to play instead of things I like more. If this was a slow patch I'd be burning through but it's anything but that.

Sand, sun, skeletons

City of Steam is very slightly less appealing than I was expecting, largely because I preferred it when it was more of a mysterious, atmospheric setting with not all that much of a game attached rather than the very good game in a rather less-convincing setting that it has become. Also I want to be a Goblin and I don't want to do everything all over again so I'm holding some of my fire. Playing every day all the same.

Go on, jump. I double-dog dare you!

A beta I'd written off as unplayable and highly disappointing has done that thing betas rarely do and turned itself around. That's back on the menu. Another beta's in the wings that I already know I want to spend more time in and probably buy the game when it launches. A third beta I've been in for ages and hardly ever manage to play because the server's rarely open at a convenient time. All those.

That leaves the huge bulk of my game time in GW2. Loving my dailies, my meta-events and WvW still, and after that lukewarm reaction to three months of Flame and Frost I'm more than a little astonished to find myself loving the new Living Story episode as well. Probably go into more detail at some point but the short version reads "Now that's more like it!" By which I am talking largely about the presentation, not so much the content. The content of Flames and Frost was fine.

No Intentional Bumping

All of which just leaves that totally unexpected entry from waaaay over in left-field, Dino Storm. Playing every day, loving it. Great change of pace and color palette and gloriously sloooooow. Why is it that MMOs supposedly aimed at a younger audience often require more stick-at-it-ness and patience than the stuff adults get spoon-fed?

No more time. Karka to crush, ratlings to rout, dinos to ride.