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