[Obligatory “I’m not dead, I’m just bored” post]
Got my Powerbook back, with no cost to me. Yay AppleCare.
We had to mail off our XBox 360, stupid red rings of death. So no DMC4 for Hung and no Lost Odyssey for me (which I haven’t even bought because it came out after the rings showed up). We did, of course, get Smash Bros. I keep forgetting to look up the friend code when I’m at home, though.
I finally used up my 7 day trial of Lord of the Rings Online. It took a bit to get into it, but I think it could have been a game I could play, if I knew anyone else who played and I had the free time to do so. It has a system that is dangerous for obsessive compulsive collectors: the Deed system. They’re like quests in WoW that you don’t have to sign up for, and when you’re done you get a slight upgrade to your character; cosmetic or functional. So you have to go around and do things like kill 60 spiders in the Bree-lands or visit all nine ruins in the Shire, or use a certain ability 350 times, and each one is tracked separately. It’s a smart way to keep people playing and to give them a real incentive to do things instead of just grinding through monsters for experience points. All in all, though, the game felt like a less-polished version of WoW, but with hobbits.
What server did you create your trial character on? There are a few of us in SN who ended up on Landroval, although I don’t think any of us ever play anymore. I know that Jez and I have the Founder’s membership though ($200 for lifetime membership), so we could hop on anytime.
I made it on Gladden, but I only made it to level 11, I could easily re-do that if I ever started back up.
I have to admit, I did like LotRO, but it’s one of those things…why play that, when I have WoW?
The Deed system is very addictive. A friend of mine said he wouldn’t be able to play WoW if you could track which quests you have or have not done, because he’d be forced to complete them all 🙂