What to do while I wait...

There's always that period of times for me, where I've grown tired of the MMORPG I was playing before, and there's still a few months until the next thing is coming out. Usually, when that happens, I get desperate to play SOMETHING, but I don't want any of the things I got.

I try some of my older MMO's, but really, I just want that new MMO, now!

Right now I'm waiting for FFXIV, and it's still 2½ months away. I haven't been accepted to beta this time, and actually, I think it's a good thing, I think one of the things that have ruined the games a bit for me the past couple of years has been too much time spend in beta, so when the game actually launched, I had to do everything over again, and it didn't feel new anymore.

So I've started a project, trying to find something to do! (Because god forbid that I actually, you know, finish my bachelor paper, do some of the drawings I've promised various people to draw, write up my guildstory for FF XIV, do my laundry or one of the thousand other things I SHOULD be doing).

I'm currently downloading 4 different, FtP MMO's, and I'm gonna give them a spin. Not a very long one, maybe an hour each, just to test and see what fits me best, and what I feel like playing around with.

Now, I'm well aware that an hour is not enough to really get a feel of the game, but remember, this is just something I do to waste some time until FFXIV comes out, it's not supposed to be serious.

The games are:

Allods

Runes of Magic

Heroes of Might and Magic Online

Atlantica

I've played Allods and Runes of Magic before, and was relatively happy about them. I love the style of Allods, but the Cash Shop system seemed to screw it over a bit, and all in all, I'm not feeling super excited about it.

It's been a while since I played RoM, and while it was fun as far as I remember, the aestethics were not quite as pleasing as Allods.

The other two are things Claude dug up for me, and both seem promising.

We shall see!

/signoff

Time...

It's actually been a while since I've last roleplayed. Or well, a few months at least. I've been playing World of Warcraft (for lack of better), and my finacé (oh yeah, I'm getting married) used Recruit-a-Friend to get me an american account, so we've been pretty mucn breezing through the levels. And it was fun, for a while.
Now, we're endgame, we're running some battlegrounds, some dungeons, and... Something is missing. I'm just not having fun. It makes me think back to before I started roleplaying. Whenever I'd hit maxlevel, I'd usually get bored and start a new character. Being max level, having the best gear and having to do dailies for a few hours each day to get my money has never really been my reason to play. All respect to those who enjoy it, but personally, it doesn't work for me.

Since I started roleplaying, I haven't had many max level characters. A bit depending on which game I'm playing and the roleplay community I'm in at the time, I've from time to time been so busy with roleplaying that I completely forget actually playing the game. And while that is fun too, I actually enjoy playing. So I'm working on finding a balance.

It's probably not going to work for World of Warcraft. I might still roleplay a bit, but in general, I've lost my of my interest in that game. I'm still going to try out Cataclysm, I'm curious, and I'm looking forward to try Worgen. But right now, what I'm waiting for is Final Fantasy XIV.

I never played Final Fantasy XI much, I didn't have any friends playing and being a social gamer, it wasn't really enough to keep me at the game. But Final Fantasy XIV looks nice! Even though I've lately learned to appreciate PvP, I'm actually looking forward to a game that doesn't put any focus on it. It should leave room for more well developed PvE and possibly easier balancing.
And the skill system seem to be really nice.

And then of course, the roleplay. And old friend from Aion pointed me in the direction of FFXIV Roleplayers, and I'm hooked. I started making a background story along with said friend, and while I cannot actually play the game yet, I'm having a lot of fun just preparing for it, working on my character and hopefully writing some shortstories soon. If I have time anyway. So I'm hoping this will be the game where I manage to find my balance.

/signoff

Hmm, so, I guess you can say this pretty much died.
The thing is, my original plan was to use this to create sort of a guide, but I realised I'd rather write an actual guide.

I'd still like to use the blog though, so maybe I'll just start talking about gaming, mmo's, roleplay and life in general, since I have a lot going on at the moment.

Roleplay will still probably be the main point, but in a much more relaxed way, possibly spiced up with a few shortstories I write about my own roleplay...

So yeah, hope to see you in the future!