MMO withdrawals

I've been feeling it. I haven't seriously played an MMO in roughly a month. Uh, well, that's counting my stint coming back to LOTRO under a free trial account. I'm not sure that counts... If not, then it's been a long time. A few months at any rate. I've been missing my warrior.


And every time I miss WoW, I'm reminded of all the douchebags, all the lag, all the elitism.... and it kind of goes away. It's also left me a bit broken on the whole MMO as a multiplayer thing front. One thing I am totally looking forward to in SWTOR is how story heavy it will be. I know my girlfriend loves end game, she loves raid (truth be told, I LOVE end game lewt, seriously) but I get a bit cranky at the amount of dedication required. I'd rather do my own thing. And this game seems to allow for that for longer than WoW.

Anyway, SWTOR is still like 6-9 months away, so.... anyway, I tried Guild Wars this weekend. I was....delighted, but unimpressed. It seemed fun, the class repertoire was fun as heck, the surroundings were lush and attractive, but something was missing. There was something missing. Even...missing from LOTRO. LOTRO invited me to jump RIGHT in. GW is not ....it's missing something. I can't pinpoint it yet. Maybe it's the pace?


Well, we spent a good part of last week trying to play the FF14 beta. We were not able to get into it because our graphics card sucks. After roughly 50 hours of downloading, and prodding, and waiting for a key...we didn't meet the systech requirements.


...there was a battery test to check if your computer could handle the game, and it seems as if our computer passed it.


I dunno, Squaresoft...if you're going to make someone wait in line for a hot dog for an hour, you should let them know they need to have a drink already at hand in order to eat their hot dog. Just a thought, you know? (I want a hot dog)


We tortured ourselves and saw some of the intro videos for the classes and the races, and just went absolutely gaga over the game. It's so sad, because we both LOVE Final Fantasy...but with this fiasco, on top of all the accounts of how bad the beta was.


Currently cello is waiting for GW 2 and SWTOR. I think I'll just keep my candle lit for swtor. Im a bit concerned that Im just not into mmos anymore. It would suck, because it's something easy and low impact to do with your significant other. Plus, my gf is a paramount star wars geek.


And so am I. Or I was. Ish. Like Ben Kenobi.