NeoShocker
Caldari
Interstellar eXodus
BricK sQuAD.
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Posted - 2011.04.19 02:05:00 -
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Ok, story time.
I played RO for like almost 5 years, ran a successful guild as a guild leader (private servers mind you :s). Here and there I tried other MMOs, but never played more than a week or two on those, except WoW for only a year. At first, I played RO because I feel in love of their music/background music. Community and friends of the guild kept me playing RO for a long time, without them, I would only probably play RO for only 3 months total.
late 3rd year/early 4th year into RO, I was recommended for Eve, but was kinda meh. Kept it only in consideration for a full year if I recall.
Then on the final year of RO, I'm losing good people for competitive play (people starting to go their separate ways). I decided to check out Eve-Online for a change of pace, and since its internet spaceships, sci-fi, and isn't "hack and slash" game. Slowly, Eve-Online pulled me over from RO, then I finally retire/quit RO after half a year or so into Eve.
RO is such a grind and I'm completely burned out, even now. I CAN'T be arsed to touch ANY "hack and slash" games (Lineage II, WoW, AoC, WH, whatever) anymore, no matter how INNOVATIVE it is. Few times I almost bought Age of Conan, Warhammer, and other recent high profile MMO games, but I never got into those because friends that played them, only last a month or two (lol, test subjects ya know?). Even if I get a free lifetime, I wouldn't touch them. I bought lifetime for Star Trek Online (along with two brothers of mine) because I love Star Trek series and I figure Cryptic wouldn't **** up on such a high profile and intellect property game (biggest mistake I ever done), but they did.
Anyway, ever since, I'm still playing Eve-O, I'm 5 years and 11 days (****, I missed my own 5 year anniversary :( ) in now. :) Even now, I still consider Eve-online the best GAME in any category in my book. You CANNOT find any game like this on ANY market at all.
Sometimes it makes me wonder why even long time Eve-O vets quit about *****ing on CCP (I have irks on CCP as well, but don't plan on quitting until they shut down, probably no matter how much they **** up Eve-O).
I know its contradictory because I said I wouldn't touch any "hack and slash" games anymore, but every few full moons I take a peek in official iRO servers (they had a free server few years back, and now the game is 100% free I hear) and play for an hour or two. There are times I want to play it (still do), but I'm the only one person, and don't want to play myself. Second best game probably for me (or maybe third, after Star Wars: Tie Fighter :O ).
/end story
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