I am in an MMO limbo

which pretty much blows considering it's one of my four passions. The last two years or so has been a game of hopscotch jumping between free RPGs - which I invariably quit playing within a week or two - and resubscribing to pay games, most notable, LoTRO WoW and EQ2.

We just re-upped our EQ2 accounts (for the third time). EQ2 is a really superb game and I hope that I gain some of that obsessive mmo gamer attitude for it over time because it has been a long time since I have felt that. This time around I am playing an arasai wizard.

That is not my character and in fact looks nothing like her, but blogs are boring without pictures, imo. That is a picture of what is probably an arasai monk with premade wings that I pilfered from online. Last night, I rolled a gnome inquistor, and everyone who knows me knows I loathe gnomes, but Sony gave the option of Pipi Longstocking hair and I couldn't resist. I named her Gnugget.(update: Gnugget is no more)

One bad thing about going back to a game that has been around for 5 years is that a lot of people are already over it. The information (espcially found via forum posts) is years old and obviously out of date; web pages are no longer updated; UIs are not supported; yadda yadda. Oh well. All I can ask is that it holds my attention long enough for Aion to be released.

Queue epic publicity screenshots:



So yeah.. its really pretty and you can fly. But there is also all sorts of cool mechanics that I haven't really seen before and loads of lore if you are into that sort of thing.

Anyway, release date is set for "sometime this fall" which isn't the most accurate piece of information, but certainly gives me something to look forward to.

In other news, China's first sex theme park, aimed at improving both the sex education and the sex life of its visitors, has been torn down before it even opened.