Well, here I am again :) Its been quite a while since I last updated this, mainly due to work issues, family issues and a renewal of serious gaming.
Speaking of which, an update as to what I've been doing is definitely in order about now...
So, what's been happening I hear you cry? Plenty actually, although my heads a cluttered so what comes out onto here may not be any semblance of chronological order of particularly coherent.
I had a slightly longer sabbatical from my primary game and dabbled in several other MMO's, RPG's and FPS's. However none really satisfied me at all, so I have subsequently returned to my original home only to find that the game is now shutting down as of mid-December. I have to confess that this news was not greeted particularly well with myself and my fellow players. A combination of reactions from complete outrage to total indignation to outright depression were witnessed in many of my friends. Since then it has pretty much settled down into just enjoying what we have whilst its here.
Meanwhile the excitement and anticipation is building for the new game I will be playing as a replacement. In fact most of my gamer friends are looking forward to this game, with us already having formed a guild (as much as we can) for it, with old friends from 6-7 years ago returning just to join up. Once again Malicious Intent will be strutting their stuff on the battlefields with their glow-bats and blasters. HUZZAH !!! As a slight by-product of this situation, and the result of some friction, we have actually reformed our previous guild on the slow wind down to our current games closure. I'm back gaming with the guys that I have metaphorically stood shoulder to shoulder with on the battlefield, and boy does it feel good to play unencumbered by all the BS !!
To be fair, there wasn't that much BS it was probably more like tension bubbling away under the surface that eventually manifested itself and just sparked the inevitable. What we had was a world class wind-up merchant verbally sparring with someone that appears to be very easy to provoke, next thing BOOOOOOOM!! I'm sure you get the picture ;) The guild we have just left has some really good people in it, most of them with really good intentions, especially the guild leader. Sadly, being a huge guild there were too many anonymous players and the interaction in the various chat forms was limited to a small number of people, and if you get one "bad apple" it can blow up quite quickly. We had issues with some of the things that went on over the months, but nothing we directly verbalised, and perhaps things should have been said earlier?
Ok, now I feel like I want to say the stuff that wasn't said.......
As a big guild there was an ideal opportunity to really make a big impact on the server as a whole. Build a good reputation, be seen as one of the top guilds around. Instead we had a huge bunch of players, most of whom were silent, doing their own thing within in the confines of their own wants. Admittedly we kinda fell into that trap too to a certain degree. My crowd PvP, that's what we do and we're damned good at it and as a game based on a "civil war" we see this as a fairly large part of the game. We played hard and were successful to the point of gaining benefits, for the guild, for our endeavours. Did the players who were contributing the most to this reap the rewards? DID WE F**K !! So this grates on people more than a little bit.
What made it grate so much was that these people would moan about PvP, then try it occasionally but only for 10-20mins. They would quit if they lost a couple of times or quit if they won and had to wait around a while, then moan that "this is why i dont pvp". However are perfectly happy to wait around from 30mins, 45mins or even an hour for some useless specimen to sort their crap out and get prepped to do a PvE instance that they could run blindfolded. This was even more irritating when the same guy that was giving us crap having been wound-up is the one we were ALWAYS waiting on, and absolutely sucked playing !!
The constant email spam also got every irritated. The constant mails announcing the latest player to join made it seem like if you stood still long enough in one place you'd get signed up to guild. Guild chat was even dubbed "NPC chat" because the people logged into it never seemed to do anything!!!
I guess the split was inevitable and to be perfectly honest I feel better for it, as though it was never really "home". I think the rest of the guys feel similar and we have even had a couple of the other crowd come with us. Apparently we brain washed them into following "the cool crowd" ?!?!?!
So, that covers gaming and the associated drama's :D
As regards my personal life that has been a veritable mixed bag. I finally turned 40 years old and spent it with the people I really wanted spend it with. My family (thanks for the Friday night sis), my best friends L+L and my closest gaming buddies. It's quite a moment turning 40 and reflecting on where you in your life. Sadly I was so drunk the whole weekend I kinda missed that part and went straight to the feeling 50 and struggling to retain the contents of my stomach !!!
Work is still work and as such is to be detested in whatever myriad of forms it decides to take. That is the nature of it, and I am always deeply impressed with anyone who is truly happy in every element of their professional life. Of course not having met that person I enjoy the smugness knowing they aren't any better off than me. In fairness I dont truly detest ALL of my work, just anything that involves interaction with customers, suppliers or my own management........... damn, that is practically everything !! LOL
So, there we are. My life up-to-date and moving along reasonably nicely. I'll definately try and more a more concerted effort to not only keep this updated with I am doing, but also resume the "social commentary" aspects as well. I know how much you all enjoy them.
Keep on gaming !!!
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