So, what're you playing?

[MisterNoisy]

Animal Crossing: New Leaf.  House is still sort of sparsely furnished, but it's paid off, and I'm most of the way towards paying off the first expansion as of the start of day 3.  I still love this series.

[Paelos]

I downloaded Rift. God help me I'm bored.

[MrHat]

I downloaded Rift. God help me I'm bored.

Heh.

Me too.

[Kail]

Been on a bit of a Dota-type game kick, playing a bunch of LoL and Dota 2 and Bloodline Champions and similar.  Finally booted up Awesomenauts after grabbing it on sale something like six months ago, and I'm actually liking it a lot.  It's basically a 2d platformer with Dota mechanics and a completely cheesy "saturday morning cartoons meet internet memes" aesthetic.

Also been trying out the Sherlock Holmes games, for some reason.  Bought a bunch of them as a bundle a while ago, and the quality is all over the place.  The first game of the series is basically complete shit (a Myst clone complete with bullshit nonsense "puzzles" making up the gameplay), but the others all have their moments of awesome (there's a mini-game which has you doing deductive logic from clues you collect, which I found a lot of fun) nestled in a sea of bullshit (Literally the first tewnty minutes: "I'm not supposed to let you see the case files, Holmes, but I might bend the rules for you if you can find the briefcase I lost" ...five minutes wandering... "I can find the briefcase for you, Holmes, but I have a tenant who keeps making noise, could you take care of that while I do this?"...five minutes wandering... "I can let the noisy tenant stay with me, but he needs some medicine first" ...five minutes wandering..."I can give you the medicine, but first..." OKAY FUCK EVERYTHING THE CASE IS OVER THE FUCKING BUTLER DID IT I DON'T EVEN CARE ANYMORE).  Overall, they're pretty interesting, but uneven as hell.

[Xanthippe]

I used my "come back to Azeroth for free for  7 days" coupon. Logged in once or twice. Played maybe a couple of hours, mostly pet battles, and that was it. Leveling my final Diablo 3 character to 60 (how long I play after that, I don't know).

Beginning to cast about for something new.

[Viin]

I opened Steam today, but I didn't actually get a chance to play anything. Does that count?

[Bzalthek]

Played through Saints Row 2 again while figuring out how to work OBS and Twitch.  Will probably doe another run with SR3 and then dive into Alan Wake (which I haven't played yet).

[apocrypha]

I downloaded Rift. God help me I'm bored.

Me too. Managed an hour before logging off, bored.

Then The Witcher 2 was on sale on Steam and now I'm playing that 

[Rendakor]

Lots of Animal Crossing yesterday. I bought 10k worth of turnips, then forgot I'd missed the Bug Off on Sat. and can't time travel back without killing my turnips so that will have to wait until later in the week. Passed the Night Owl ordinance, so shops will stay open later; also paid for my third house expansion and started my 2nd floor. I should have enough to pay for that too, once the stores open this morning and I can sell. The best moneymaker I've found is catching bugs on the island; ignore the ground bugs because they're mostly wharf roaches, and focus on the stag beetles and emperor butterflies. Fishing and wet-suit-diving take too long and aren't as reliable, and it's better to catch on the island than at home.

Also downloaded the FFXIV beta, but couldn't pry myself away from the 3DS to play it.

[Shannow]

Fifa 13, Civ 5 as usual.

Downloaded Rift, waited 20 minutes to get into a server then fell asleep during the tutorial. I hope this gets better. (Tutorial is way to long)

[Sky]

Thought about playing Rift now that it's f2p. Log in and all my characters are lowbies, what the heck? Oh, that's right, I'm thinking of my alphabeta characters who were 50. Damn. I look at the server list and see I have characters on another server and remember that my defiants were all on a server that got changed to the trial server...with f2p I imagine that server will go away. And I'll probably lose more names. Names are kind of a big deal for me for whatever reason.

Dunno. I always kind of liked that game but it seems like such a hassle to play mmo anymore.

Ended up logging out and playing the Unepic demo for a while. I like the game but the controls are retarded. Controller works great but the inventory management sucks with it, and you can't use any hotkeys which are kind of a big deal (no pause during inventory screen). Tried setting up the keyboard and use mouse for attack, which works ok but the mouse keeps turning you to the right to attack, no way to stay stationary and attack to the left, which I could foresee as a problem. Glad I didn't buy it, though it seems like a decent enough game otherwise.

Probably back to Civ V, though the bland sameness of all the civs is already getting really old. Oh look, they have crossbows I have crossbows everyone has fucking crossbows, how very vanilla.

[Nebu]

Been playing WoT since December but am feeling burnout.  I want to scratch the MMO itch, but can't seem to find a game that can do it. 

Think I'll go back to Football Manager for a while.

[Stormwaltz]

My experience going back to Rift last month was even more ridiculous. When I logged in, the servers my characters were on had all been converted to trial servers, so I was marooned in the capital city with no other players around. All my soul trees had been reset, and at least half the abilities I remembered were gone. I went to my lowest-level character, and laboriously rebuilt her in a completely new way (her former bread-and-butter skills were all gone), then tried to transfer to a new server.

"This name is taken. Please choose another."

Okay, bye. After struggling with the game for over an hour with no ability to get help or advice in-game, finding out my identity was gone was the final straw. I walked away and never went back.

[Rasix]

Yah, I don't think I could go back to Rift.  Maybe if they removed about half of the abilities.  I think I managed to get off my server before it was turned into a trial.  Maybe when I'm done with The Last of Us, I'll log on and see what my characters are at.  The problem I have with Rift is, that most of the interesting content was gated behind group/raid activity.  The regular leveling path was a bit boring once you did the zone events, and those tended not to go well at low population.

Playing The Last of Us and LoL ARAMs.  Lots of good stuff also waiting in the wings.  Just not a lot of time.  My son turning 4 basically ate my entire week.

[Nebu]

The problem I have with Rift is, that most of the interesting content was gated behind group/raid activity.  The regular leveling path was a bit boring once you did the zone events, and those tended not to go well at low population.

This.  When I had a solid group for doing 5-man content and an occasional second group for 10-man stuff, I enjoyed the game.  The solo content... not so much.

[Ingmar]

SWTOR has double xp weekends starting up again this coming weekend through July 7th - will also be double xp for the 4th of July I believe, for those of you in the returning-to-MMOs-you-left mode.

[Shannow]

In my quest to try out a bunch of FTP MMOG's and find one that is actually fun (a MUD is still winning) I will say that at least Rift beat Age of Conan.

Age of Conan couldn't even reset my password properly. Oh Funcom...never change.

[Rasix]

SWTOR has double xp weekends starting up again this coming weekend through July 7th - will also be double xp for the 4th of July I believe, for those of you in the returning-to-MMOs-you-left mode.

Good to know. I haven't touched the game for a while (mainly just logging on to see if people were playing) as Belsavis was a humongous drag.  Did log on a couple days ago and picked up a pack.  Got a free epic tier speeder out of it.

[MisterNoisy]

Lots of Animal Crossing yesterday. I bought 10k worth of turnips, then forgot I'd missed the Bug Off on Sat. and can't time travel back without killing my turnips so that will have to wait until later in the week. Passed the Night Owl ordinance, so shops will stay open later; also paid for my third house expansion and started my 2nd floor. I should have enough to pay for that too, once the stores open this morning and I can sell. The best moneymaker I've found is catching bugs on the island; ignore the ground bugs because they're mostly wharf roaches, and focus on the stag beetles and emperor butterflies. Fishing and wet-suit-diving take too long and aren't as reliable, and it's better to catch on the island than at home.

Heh.  You're right about where I am and using the same moneymaking methods, though I went with the 'beautiful town' ordinance because fuck watering flowers.  I carry the fishing rod when I bug hunt in case a shark is offshore, though - those things are 8-15K each.  I've currently got oranges, lychee, durian and pears growing and a buddy of mine is holding onto some peaches for me.  I'm up for a fruit exchange program if anyone else is. :)

This game is consuming wayyyyy too much of my time.  :P

[Sky]

The problem I have with Rift is, that most of the interesting content was gated behind group/raid activity.  The regular leveling path was a bit boring once you did the zone events, and those tended not to go well at low population.

This.  When I had a solid group for doing 5-man content and an occasional second group for 10-man stuff, I enjoyed the game.  The solo content... not so much.

+1 I really enjoyed the F&F Alpha when I was grouping more, but as they widened the alphabeta I tended to want to group less with the herd. On the upside, I bet I could get in my collection quests a lot faster.

Too bad we can't keep a steady casual f13 guild in a game :p

Ingmar, I did try to get into TOR, but the f2p restriction page looked daunting.

[Nebu]

If someone wants to put together a steady group for WoW, SWTOR, or Rift, I'd be game. 

[Trippy]

Or you can just play Tera and hope nobody will watch you play

[Nebu]

Or you can just play Tera and hope nobody will watch you play

Tried it.  Felt like I should be playing with a bag over my head. 

I lasted a day.

[Trippy]

Understood.

[Paelos]

The only thing I don't like about the Rift f2p so far is that they lock you out of the auction house to sell stuff.

While I understand wanting to gate that part, I'm not really digging that free players are completely locked out of that side.

[Rendakor]

Heh.  You're right about where I am and using the same moneymaking methods, though I went with the 'beautiful town' ordinance because fuck watering flowers.  I carry the fishing rod when I bug hunt in case a shark is offshore, though - those things are 8-15K each.  I've currently got oranges, lychee, durian and pears growing and a buddy of mine is holding onto some peaches for me.  I'm up for a fruit exchange program if anyone else is. :)

This game is consuming wayyyyy too much of my time.  :P

6 friends and I all bought it on release day, so I have pears (native), peaches, apples, cherries, oranges, lemons, bananas, lychees, durians, and mangos. I can hang onto a few of the ones you need next harvest. I was doing fishing too but I have trouble catching sharks so I stopped. I generally only get to play from 9p-12 so Night Owl is important and I just have to water flowers.

[Khaldun]

I just tried DDO for the first time since just after its launch. It's not bad.

[rk47]

im messing around with me3 co-op again. nothing else grabbing my attention at the moment.

[Shannow]

In my quest to find a FTP MMOLG that's fun I started SWTOR last night.

3 hours of downloading and patching
2 hours of cut scenes.
1 hour of watching a loading screen and nothing.

Tonight it gets one more try.

So so far we've done:

Age of Conan, second night Funcom couldn't reset my password. Uninstalled.
Rift - Fell asleep during tutorial, will give one more shot.
SWTOR - Password at least works?

[Sky]

If someone wants to put together a steady group for WoW, SWTOR, or Rift, I'd be game. 

What do you consider a steady group?

Honestly, the biggest problem I have is setting aside a rigid time to play. It's why I had trouble with Blood Bowl, too. Sometimes I'd rather use the time to paint or play guitar or something. MMO has such a huge time overhead, especially early on as you learn the systems. Doesn't help I upgraded my computer since last time I played so I'm spending a half hour fiddling with the UI...

[Paelos]

That got to be my problem as well when I got out of my 20s. Now I just can't give a fuck about setting aside time to do a multiplayer game.

[Yegolev]

New Leaf and misc 3DS nonsense.  Do we need a Friend Code thread?

[Sjofn]

For leveling, SWTOR is best in a duo rather than a full group, imo.

[Simond]

The only thing I don't like about the Rift f2p so far is that they lock you out of the auction house to sell stuff.

While I understand wanting to gate that part, I'm not really digging that free players are completely locked out of that side.

Supposed to be getting fixed in a patch 'soon'.

Also: Curse you, Civ5 thread, for making me fire up Fall From Heaven 2 again.

[Paelos]

The only thing I don't like about the Rift f2p so far is that they lock you out of the auction house to sell stuff.

While I understand wanting to gate that part, I'm not really digging that free players are completely locked out of that side.

Supposed to be getting fixed in a patch 'soon'.

Really? I hadn't seen that. Where did you find that info?