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By the Hand of Fate…
By Cameron Sorden | November 9, 2008
I just tried to log into World of Warcraft for the first time in weeks only to be greeted with the “account frozen” message. They suggested that I should go add some more time to continue playing. I guess that the old credit card I had on my account expired and I haven’t updated it with the new one yet. So… For the first time in almost a year I don’t have a WoW subscription.
We’re on the very brink of plunging headfirst into a new expansion that I had had every intention of playing, but for some reason I find myself more or less where I was at the launch of The Burning Crusade: just not that excited. I’ve played with the new talents. I’ve read up on the new skills (I also thought Tobold’s recent post on skill expansion was a good read). New zones, new items, and new dungeons all sound interesting… but it’s still just more of WoW. That’s not a bad thing, necessarily. But I don’t really feel like doing another ten levels of the same old quests (with some new twists) and the same old classes (with some new twists) and the same old game (with some higher numbers).
I’ve barely touched Fable 2 and I’m halfway through my second replay of Fallout 3. I’ll probably take a month or so to more fully explore Fallout before I go back and play through Fable all the way. And then I’d kind of like to try playing Fallout 3 as a truly evil character (I always find myself leaning towards good — I’m just too much of a sucker, I guess). More games will be coming out soon that look interesting and I still have the Xbox live arcade to keep me busy when I get bored of the sprawling RPGs. Plus, my weekend D&D group over Ventrilo has been going strong, which tends to scratch that online group itch.
I’ll probably still buy Wrath of the Lich King just because I want to have it, but I’m guessing that I’ll do the same thing I did with the Burning Crusade: It will sit on my computer for months and months until I get that itch to come back to Warcraft sometime in Spring (most likely) and then I’ll play the heck out of it for a few months.
I think WoW, at this point, has kind of settled into the same kind of place for me that EverQuest has. I’ve done it. It’s great. I’m good at it and it was a blast to play and master. I’ll come back to it every now and then just to have some fun, but I won’t stay too long. I’m looking forward to new stuff. I’m excited to play a Jedi in Bioware’s MMOG, for one.
And for now, I’m just going to go with the flow and leave my account closed, Wrath or no Wrath.
Topics: Massively Multiplayer, Personal, World of Warcraft |
November 10th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
If I believed in signs from beyond, I would total buy this as one. I’ll try to play enough WoW for both of us.
Also, here’s a question for you. Oblivion has sometimes been described as a single player MMO. Does Fallout 3 have any of that feel to it, or is it more tightly focused?
November 11th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Yes and no. It IS more tightly focused, but it also has a lot of that freedom that lends itself to an MMO-ish feeling. You can go do whatever you want.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:43 am
I was wondering, do you enjoy Fallout 3 more than Oblivion?
November 13th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Absolutely. But I didn’t like Oblivion very much… I felt Morrowind was superior in many ways.
Fallout 3 dramatically improves on many of the things I found irritating about Oblivion. And the weapons are more interesting.