Enjoy the dungeon finder

My time in WoW is not over either, I plan on returning for Cataclysm.

So you’re our inside man now, eh? Gonna pull down the system from within, yeah?

Sneaky. Very sneaksy little hobbitses…

Will be interesting to hear how your experience is. I’ll not argue that WoW was fun while it lasted – but when you break through their illusion it actually makes you feel sick that you bought it for so long

Please do tell how the new LFG system works, then you can return to the land of rational thought and get on with blogging the good blog

I strongly encourage people to check out a new game that sounds interesting. You can give the latest WoW clone a skip, but do support people who are trying to offer something even partially original. We need more encouragement to do that.

Was pretty heavy into Fallen Earth until Dragon Age hit, and the origin story pointed a very large, very bright spotlight on the completely weak nature of MMO stories. After that, I just couldn’t run another 10 minutes to kill another 10 (wait, who was I killing that time again?).

Tried to get back into WAR with the reinvite. Reactivated, patched, loaded up, and stared at the red splotches on my map. Even with the quest titles and tooltips, I couldn’t find a point to any of it. And, again, a single player game showed how dull and lifeless it really was, as my second playthrough of Force Unleashed was calling to me.

So right now I’m holding out hope that TOR will live up to its promise of deeper stories and interesting interaction, because at the moment the horrible, shallow repetitiveness of MMO design crushes my soul if I get within 20 feet of them. So at least for now I seem to not be playing the MMOs I might enjoy because they’re MMOs.

WoW is a very different experience with the introduction of 3.3’s Looking For Dungeon tool.

I re-subbed to WoW a week before 3.3, expecting a long solo content to end level. Now I can camp the AH in SW and queue for a Dungeon and within 5 minutes I’m teleported to SFK for a 30 minute dungeon run with a reasonable chance of success. You even get a random blue in your gearbag as a “reward” for downing the boss (and putting up with the PUG).

With all the boss nerfs, healer and tank buffs, it seems that any PUG can get through content if they’re not goofing off.

For me, WoW 3.3 feels like a 3D Diablo with the capital cities as lobbies. I can do instanced PvP, instanced PvE, or a little world exploration when I feel like relaxing or leveling my gathering skills.

There’s not a lot of challenge left in WoW, but I just play it on an “arcade fun” and economy PvP level, and it fills that niche rather well.

With the number of games out now, though, time is the major limiting factor for me. With two primary and one occasional game, if I start playing any new games then I’ll have to drop one of the ones I’m already playing.