I’ve officially allowed my claim to be repossessed at this point. They have added caves so I figure at some point I will poke my head back in, but exploration without combat just sounds boring to me. They have built this amazing crafting sandbox, but without combat it isn’t all that interesting to me past the initial build phase. Landmark on the other hand has an amazing community, but right now there just isn’t much game there for me to play. So unless Trion comes out and announces there will be a co-op server… it is pretty much a nonstarter for me and no sense really spending much more time on it. ArcheAge I want to like, but it has without a doubt the worst community of griefers I have experienced anywhere. So I won’t be spending much more time trying to get into that game when I know there is something I will like much better coming later this year. It was fun trying to get into Defiance, but the problem is I got into the Destiny alpha… and it was pretty much everything I had hoped Defiance would be. As a result I won’t be renewing my patron account in Rift. As a result Rift and SWTOR are also losing out, because to me they still fill the same “wow-like” niche. Wildstar really is a much better version of WoW, and I am just embracing that fact. I think maybe WoW has run its course with me for awhile, and Wildstar has stepped in to take its place in my heart without me really wanting it to. However I can safely say that I will not be playing the actual live World of Warcraft anytime in the near future. While I won’t be playing with the same wide eyed amusement that he would have, I am trying my best to enjoy the experience in his honor. I feel like I have to keep testing Warlords of Draenor in part out of remembrance for River, and him being so damned excited to have gotten into the alpha process. Mostly I think I need to drop some of the games that feel similar to me from the rotation, or at least games that scratch the same itch. While I embrace the whole polygamerous thing, I think even for me this is a bit too much especially when you throw in League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm on top of those… and occasionally some Hex and Hearthstone. Over the last two months I’ve played Warlords of Draenor, Rift, ArcheAge, Wildstar, Star Wars the Old Republic, Elder Scrolls Online, Defiance, Everquest II, Landmark, The Secret World, Diablo 3, Lego Minifigures Online and Trove. Right now I have come to realize that I am playing entirely too many MMOs to feel like I am making any significant progress in any of them. A few of the “newbies” are among the most prolific posters in my blog reader, and I am amped to still see them enjoying the whole experience. However this group either is blissfully oblivious to the existence of blog statistics, or they really are writing for themselves, because they seem to still be going strong. When the spotlight fades a bit, it is rough to keep posting when you inevitably notice fewer people are reading. Generally speaking there is a significant drop off the month after the initiative as folks take a massive breather after having survived being the focus of so many folks attention. This is not a slight in any way to the previous NBI groups, but I have been really impressed with just how tenacious the Class of 2014 has been.
Unfortunately we are well based the NBI 2014 initiative, otherwise I would spin this into some sort of an inspirational post about struggling through. It might not be epic and exciting, but it is staying true to the mission as a whole. It is mornings like this that I feel outline the importance of just allowing yourself to write whatever happens to pop into your head. Unfortunately when my biggest source of inspiration is gone, I can get a little bit of writers block. When I am sick like I was yesterday, I tend to turtle and pull my head up inside my shell, disconnecting me from the interwebs and all of you fine people. One of the biggest challenges about this whole “blog every day” concept is that some mornings there is just nothing at all in my head to talk about.
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