Thursday, December 01, 2005

To EQ, or not to EQ

So, after speaking with my friend Mike for a little while yesterday, I realized how much I miss EQ II. I didn't think I did and I certainly enjoyed the break, but I've really only experienced the first half of the game. Still, I know my wife has been quite happy about having me for herself for those extra few hours a week. So, herein lies my problem. I've quite EQ, but my pre-paid year doesn't end until January of 2006. I can go back. Because of the need to buy a new car, I would not want to spend the money, but someone has offered the cost to me as a gift. So, with that, I would get to play for free. Now, it's a matter of time. I am extremely efficient when I play. I rarely get on without accomplishing a great deal more than your average player. Other people in the game have actually comments how rarely they seem me on, but how I would always seem to be keeping up pretty well. Still, I could never give the amount of time I needed to keep up with these people who played 20-40 hours a week with my <10. Eventually, I would start falling behind and evetually be too far behind to be in the same group or go to the same places in the EQ world. So, while Sabrina and I talk about it, I was hoping some of you could help me decide whether to go back or not.
Comments:
I have to say, I'd dump it man. While I do understand the entertainment value of such a game, if you added up all of the hours you've spent playing it, what else could you have done? I'm all for entertainment (and especially technology-based entertainment), but these MMORPG's are an entirely different thing. I feel like they're sucking people's life away and making them pay for it. Even at <10 hours a week, that seems like a massive loss of (potentially) quality time to me. Just my $0.02.
 
If I add up my playing time for World of Warcraft, I easily exceed 1 month... it's kind of embarrasing.
 
Yes, (un)luckily, these games store your played time. Although there were times I left the computer running all night while I was sleeping, I had logged in months, no exaggeration, into EQ 1. I think I may have already had a couple of weeks logged into EQ2.

Be imagine if it's free? Then, it's sucking my life away WITHOUT me paying for it. The truth is, I believe the alternative is simply playing OTHER video games and maybe watching more TV. See my next post.
 
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