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Just curious as to what everyone is currently playing; please post what/and how you feel about where your virtual lives are currently.

I am in EQ2 currently, with an active subscription to WoW and EVE. 

Schild was correct... WoW is extremely shallow.  Why did I like it?  2 reasons, SFK and PvP.  Now I am in my 40's the PvP takes up to 3 hours to get into.  Yeah, I know, supposedly at level 60 it is not so bad.  Fuck grinding to fun.

EVE:  I love the concept and lore, plus the universe.  As far as gameplay I am relatively ambivelant currently, and it is a secondary game for me.

EQ2:  Not sure how I feel completely on this.  Part of the problem is I am all alone.  I still do not like the combat changes as they stand; they are waaaay to complicated for solo players.  One thing I can say: I feel secure on this games future and the development cycle.  Good things will come of this.

So, where are YOU and how do YOU feel? 

The only MMORPG I'm playing currently is World of Warcraft. Got one 60 main (warrior), a level 40 mage alt I play a fair amount, and then a handful of 20ish alts across a couple RP servers I play when I'm burnt out on the shithole that is my main's server.

I've enjoyed pretty much all of WoW outside of a handful of levels I spent with my main. I should've asked around about other areas to quest in before suffering through the intense borefest that was Stranglethorn Vale.

World of Warcraft has become something less of a game to me now that I've gotten to 60, hit high ranks in pvp and gotten my mc gear.  My guild is full of real life friends and that keeps pulling me in.
EVE:  Pretty much what ched said.

I, of course, am eagerly awaiting Baldwin Online.

Not playing anything right now.  I quit WoW once I started getting up into the raid levels again.  Don't really see myself playing it again.

Pretty much waiting on DDO now.  Figure I'll preorder soon for the 10 day beta access and the head start.  Until then I'm just catching up on the single player stuff right now.

WoW and EVE. New to EVE and i like it, particularly the pace, i don't feel i "have" to log in at any point, i just kind of meander around and take in the sights. WoW, not so much. Still enjoy it but the grind to get to MC and above is kind of grating.

WoW, which I like, but I do feel the strain of becoming an Ironforge shut-in except for raids. There's just not much to do anymore except grind cash and rep in between raids or pvp sessions, and that kind of sucks.

I am uh, downloading EQ2....I'll have an opinion on whether or not that was a good idea in t-minus 72 hoursish.

WoW.  

Even though everyone (everyone) from my server on SWG went to Frostwolf, I went to Kargath to play with some rl friends and turn things down a notch.  In some ways WoW is a bit slick for its own good.  Kind of like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie in the way that, while it doesn't break any new ground, it satisfyingly combines pre-existing elements into a guaranteed crowd pleaser.  I'm having a great time so far.

Looking forward to seeing what D&D and Star Trek online are like.  

Currently subscribed to CoH/CoV and PlanetSide. CoH has been boring since level 39 or so (currently 41), after I got my last secondary power and virtually everybody in my supergroup wandered off to CoV, and none of the archetypes in CoV really interest me, plus I don't like playing evil characters. In PlanetSide the NC commanders on Markov (West coast server) are pissing me off (all they care about is farming) and the levelling is way too slow as a support character so I haven't been playing PS much lately either.

Been playing some Guild Wars again now that I can play it on my new computer without it crashing (before I had to play on my laptop which is a bit awkward the way my room is setup) but everything that bugged me about the game design is still there.

In other words I'm kind of in an MMO lull right now and have been pondering my options but there's nothing out there right now that interests me at the moment.

As written in the other thread:
When I'm bored or have nothing to do in one, I jump in the other or find time to write on my website.

EDIT- Nothing announced for the next ~3 years appeals to me. I've only a mild curiosity for Vanguard, but mostly because I'm sceptical and see it as pure hype.

Offline I'm currently re-playing Ultima 8 and managed to configure prefectly System Shock and the two Ultima Underworld. They are next.

Sounds like it's time for an alt. The only problem I have is that it doesn't take my alts long to get leveled and I don't really "play" so much as I watch my friends utterly destroy instances for me unless I play one on another server.

...and then I don't like playing my alts since I have to hunt for groups to do the lower level instances that everyone seems to ignore, like Shadowfang Keep/Blackfathom Deeps/Razorfen <whatever> and so on. It's a pain in the ass to get an alliance group together for those four since it requires more than 2 minutes of travel to get to them.

The only MMOG I'm playing at all is a little bit of DDO.

I still find WoW fun, but all you motherfuckers outlevel me too fast, get bored and quit before I can ever catch up. Dwarffuckers.

Still playing WW2OL, not called by everyone who dosn't play it, BattleGround Europe.

Deployment FIANNLY made it into game on Christmas Eve, 2 years after I thought it would. The 7th Panzer divison has been routed twice by the French.

There's also Sniper Rifles. 5 years, but we got Sniper Rifles.

Comstar mate i admire your tenacity. I was in Windhund (dunno if you recall a german beta/commander named eggman, good mate of mine). Was a great game , but i just couldn't take the implementation problems. Hats off to you though.

So, having trucked through the first subclass quest and about 50% of the way to Summoner, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stick out in EQ2 until February 18th or so. There aren't any mind blowing releases until then and I'd really like to see some of the high level EQ2 content. Also SOGA Models + Combat improvements + the removal of spirit shards = luv.

Been playing mostly WoW (have a 36 warlock and recently started a dwarf pally just to see what they're like), some CoH (no CoV yet) a smidgen of GW, an even smaller smidgen of EQ1 (like once every 3 months), and since it's free, I just started Anarchy Online. So far I'm incredibly underwhelmed. Very clunky interface. Don't know if I can stick with it even at free.

CoH/CoV. Rediscovering all my old, crufted-over characters with the one-off missions to go save Christmas, and feeding the altitis with an SVG of friends called O.C.E.L.O.T. Indulging my inner Sims fan by tweaking the base. We've nearly got enough scratch for a medbay.

--GF

As should be obvious from my posting in the EQ2 forum, I am still playing EQ2 and have been since launch. My only character recently hit level 47. I am lucky to play 8 hours a week.

Playing CoV, but this is doomed.
Trying the Eve trial, but things aren't looking good. Katamari helps a bit.
Sporadically playing GW, still hoping A.net can pull out a "Hail Mary" and save this game.

No you say! Shocked!

Playing some SWG, now that they fixed the quest I was stuck on. My experience is that they've been very responsive to fixing bugs, something I never imagined back when I was playing before. The most I've had to wait for a bug fix was four or five days. That's impressive, no matter what people might think about the NGE. And I'm a Jedi in training. Eff You, Aunt Beru, and your goddamned hologrind.

I logged into EQ2 for about ten minutes. I was going to roll a new character to re-learn the systems, but I don't think I can stomach the Isle of Refuge again, even though I really enjoyed it (the first six or seven times). And that was about that. Checked out the SOGA models, knew schild would like them, they were funny to me. I wouldn't say worse than the old models, because I'm not sure that's possible. Meh.

Subbed to Eve, I like that game. Takes a little reading to get into, but I've got a handle on the basics now, running the odd mission while learning a little corner of space in my rustbucket. No 0.4 for some time to come :P I'll get hold of the f13 folks at some point, I'm just newbieing around now learning the systems. Moderately high GAO (girlfriend approval factor: "It's pretty"), and some time to get back into a few books I've been meaning to read. I find it odd, but not annoying (like waiting on EQ spawns or fishing in UO). I do wish it had real ship control, though. JtL wins in the fun combat factor.
That always bugged me about PS. So worried about farming exp that it hurts tactics. Mmogtards. Need to reinstall PS while my station pass is open.

Do you play on Victory?  If you do, please tell thejeni I said hi.  I'd do it myself but I'm afraid of her.

I've seen OCELOT on Virtue I think?

Anyway, I'm playing COH/COV. I went in reverse, started with COV and moved to COH. I'm having a great time.

I also sub to Eve and WOW. I think my WOW sub is going away. Eve I'm taking a hiatus. I need to find a good corp.

I'm playing WoW. 

I typed out a really long Cevik's PvP Queue observations guide, in response to Cheddar's queue complaints, but I don't want to derail this thread, so I'm going to post it as a new post in the WoW forums.

Playing CoV/CoH but beginning to not care (again).

Went so far as to download the WoW patches since I quit but am trying to stand firm and remember why I stopped playing.  I am going through crafting withdrawal; I just keep thinking about how much I enjoyed travelling and picking flowers and selling shirts at the AH.  I suspect I will weaken and resub before the new  year.

Anyone playing on Shattered Hand?  Durotan?

Also thinking about DAOC, where I have a free 2weeker sitting in my emailbox... but last time I went back, I didn't last through the free period because I recalled why I quit before and cried again.

When is Warhammer due?

I'd try EVE again but I doubt I'd make it past the interface.  Am I the only one who hates it?

I have a sub to Puzzle Pirates but for some reason I just don't get the urge to log in anymore.  That is surprising, in the same way that I don't really know why I quit playing Tale in the Desert.  I just don't get that compulsion to play, and I have a lot of games competing for my attention.

I have been lured back into WoW, and it is as fun as ever.  As usual, it's just me and my RL friend; looks like my guild has not logged in for months.  The game has been improved in numerous small ways since I was last in there, and I am told that loot-lock no longer is a problem.  Doing anything in Tarren Mill is as irritating as ever.  Our play sessions are more or less what they had been: he needs me to distract a quest mob while he kills it; I get ganked on the way to East Bumblefuck, arriving an hour after he calls me; we start the fight and get wiped; repeat until helpful Horde player wanders by or we get bored or otherwise have to log.  I would not be playing WoW if he wasn't.

I am playing EVE a lot.  I really like this game, although I am most certainly a newbie.  The pace is slower but I find that relaxing; these days I want to play stuff that is fun and EVE doesn't stress me out.  It's a space-combat MMOG, and since I haven't seen it, it's new to me!  It doesn't have any elves or dwarves, either.  I am having fun exploring asteroid belts for minerals, learning what I get from refining the stuff, figuring out where I can get the best price for my junk (and learning the market system in general), keeping an eye out for someone acquiring a lock on me while mining so I can warp out before they bore through my shielding, weighing out which skills I want to train now and in the future, making sure I have my ass covered financially for when my ship is vaporized, and of course chatting in the F13 chat channel.  There is a huge amount of gameplay in EVE and there seems to be room for several player types.  I am going to see how far I can get in the market game.  I am also trying to find a spot in Frenchie (Gallente) space to set up a F13 corporate office, since every other person seems to be playing a Calamari or Cardassian or whatever, and cross-empire trade can be pretty lucrative.  It was also fun to listen to bhodikhan talk about his pwnage of the Chinese farmers.

Finally, I am working on and playing in the alpha for Baldwin Online.  We are still hashing out some of the design details, but believe me when I say that this will blow the MMOG genre out of the water.  Just a taste: Jeff K from Glitchless will be designing the character progression from Billy all the way through to Alec.  BO will also be the first MMOG to feature both a GUI and a command-line interface, determined by the player's choice of subscription plan.  Look for our open beta announcement next week.

How much are you going to pay your subscribers to "play" this?

This depends on if you are able to write REXX programs.

EVE is playing me. We'll have to see if it dies out before the end of the free trial though. If it does I'll be back in Guild Wars.

I cancelled WoW early this month and my sub to it runs out tomorrow. I hit 60, can't stomach another alt, and wasn't finding the elder game fun.

Currently playing EVE on and off; I particularly like how I'm no longer really compelled to log on to keep up. Indeed, now that I'm getting a handle on some of the player-based trading and manufacturing, I can spend an hour setting up orders, pick a skill to train, and then go get real stuff done.

I tried EQ2 at schild's suggestion last night. Nice graphics (although they need to spring for a Speedtree license) but the interface is kinda crappy, the options screen crashed the program every time I tried to save/cancel (and didn't show any options), and the gameplay was basically the same old Dikumud I've been playing since 1994. Having just gotten off of WoW, I'm not in the mood to maul e-Rats with an e-Stick for an e-Ding to show off my e-Dong. Conclusion: not gonna pay.

Playing DAoC still.  Took a few months off,  and have rediscovered my RvR love.  Lot of solo, small group (2-4 players),  and even some PUG 8 v 8.

Also Magic Online, though I've ramped down the amount I'm drafting since I realized I had Christmas gifts to pay for.

Most of my mains are on Durotan. I don't play real regular like, but I've got a few in the teens, and one in the thirties.

Teens group: (between 13 and 16 I think)

Gwynydd - druid
Kyldaely - warrior
Argyl - paladin

Thirties (34 I think)

Thanosa - warlock

I hop around so much I can't keep track of who's at what level.



Edit: They're all alliance. I could be talked into starting up an undead 'lock on Durotan. I love warlocks.

I'm playing WoW.  Haven't had the problem with the endgame some of you all have, then again I did  many guild switches while leveling up my trio of 60s until I found a guild I really liked.  When you do that, even running UBRS for the 100th time for someone's chest piece can be entertaining.  Now if only my hunter could find a PUG...

Playing EvE as well, but I know that'll die-out soon enough.  The combat is what interests me, and it takes too long to get to it, or to clean-up and 'loot' after it once you're beyond the level 1 missions.  10 Mins of combat and 20 of looting/ travel is a bad mix.  Still, for the time being it's entertaining and I'm enjoying blowing the shit out of Pirates in my Cruiser/ Battlecruiser once again.

None, I don't like any of the current games, and nothing due for release that I plan on buying. I only plan looking at Huxley to see if it is any good.

There's a hero group that goes by that name on Virtue, which I had no idea about when I founded the group on Protector.

It started out as a joke, but all y'all guys are welcome to the Outcast Catgirl Evil Legions Of Terror, assuming you're willing to stomach the avatar creation process. Global @GlaziusF.

--GF

WoW only. 60 gnome rogue on icecrown in a BWL raiding guild, 53 tauren druid on stormscale for my pvp lust, currently rank 5 and working my way up to 8 for my pvp set.

I'll probably try DDO when it comes out if all the reviews are decent, but I have no real interest in any of the others.

I agree with Cevik's comments in the other thread; I got tired of waiting 45m for battlegrounds so I just started a pvp char on another server that is slightly imbalanced, horde of course, and have been working my way up. 50-59 is DEAD; I leveled to 51 for AV weekend last weekend and now I'm stuck.

Playing WoW cause so many friends wanted to play again. I'm actually enjoying it only because it's not a grindfest every night. We play every other day for a little bit and then someone crashes hard and we all log off heh. I think it'll last awhile. It better, I paid for 3 months.

EvE is surprisingly fun. Like most have said you don't feel like you HAVE to log in, but most times I want to. Setup a new skill to train, see what's going on with the other people and try your hand at something new. I started off as a trader, managed to get my hands on 2.2 Mil ISK and turned myself into a hybrid trader/fighter. The game seems like it has a lot to offer. I'm glad I subbed to it, nice change of pace.

And of course I'm also waiting for Baldwin Online. We've managed to pick up some of the laid off SWG staff too and we're really hyped about their ability to program a solid game with gameplay done so right their players just don't "get it."

WoW on Emerald Dream.  Getting good variety of gameplay and actually being able to acheive some goals in a palatable timeframe. 

I'm tempted by EQ2 but struggling as I am to find time to group in WoW, I doubt I'll enjoy my experience in group-oriented EQ2. 

I'm interested in DDO but doubt I'll sub as that's going to be group-oriented too.  Apart from that, nothin'.

WoW mostly, finally hit 60 with my main, plenty left to do, all of it still pure fun to me. And it still amazes me, since this was the one game I swore up and down I'd never touch prior to it's release... funny how that worked out.

That damn PC Gamer article, followed by everyone and their mother chatting it up on forums, led me to the free trial of Eve. This would be my 3rd attempt, never made it past the free time. But my prior attempts were to try to make it my main squeeze, we'll see how it works out this time as just my dirty little secret. The jury is still out.

Toying with the offer for the Galaxies free resub to look thing... the trial didn't show me much being unable to leave the tutorial ship. I know, I know, this is supposed to be teh suck, but I still like to see stuff for myself and will reserve judgement until I do, and in this case that would mean with my old character, or at least on an actual planet. Also toying with resubbing to every other MMO I've ever played (almost all of them), to put this into perspective.

Waiting on DDO. I will buy it, if I'll pay a monthly fee for it I dunno.

Finishing my EVE trial at the moment, and will open an account after that is up. I find the gameplay to be very casual-friendly and not so attention-demanding as other games, so I can watch TV or whatever at the same time. Also, I like space ships.

After I figure out what's wrong with my PC, I'll pre-order DDO so I can try that out. If I don't like it I can just cancel the pre-order.  :-)

Not really playing much else at the moment.

Currently playing CoH/CoV although mostly CoV right now. I've got 2 heroes at max level, 1 villain almost at max level, and about 15 alts of various levels on both sides. The group I play with have a few theme supergroups that we created besides our main groups. We've got the Oxymorons (character names all have to be an oxymoron), an obscure deity group, and the League of Super Ineptitude where we create characters with the absolute worst builds possible. I'm still having fun although I can tell the itch to try something new is getting stronger.

Also still beta-testing Auto Assault every now and then. Its getting better but it still needs work.

Still paying for WoW, haven't played it in two months.

Only playing EVE right now, don't feel like committing any time to a game right now (got too many other projects going on) so it's nice to have something to play when you are bored at work.

Not really looking forward to any releases either. Maybe I'm just getting old, but no up-and-comings have moved my I-want-to-play-that meter, only mild academic interest.

Just wanted to point out that EQ2 is no less solo friendly then WoW. 

Just DDO.  I mean, um...  :nda:

Nothing.

Well, my computer went *BOOM* during a poweroutage, and have not gotten it fixed, so I'm using my son's computer to game and have been playing BF2 SF, Temple of Elemental Evil (with the Circle of 8 fixes), and KOTOR 2.  My son is playing CoH every now and then, and a ton of Paper Mario 2 (oh and X-men Ledgens which we just got and love playing together!).  The sad thing is that we both have a subscription to WoW and CoH, but without us being able to play together at the same time it sucks.

SWG, though the holidays have stalled that a bit. Mostly in space. I'm still the CL53 BH I respecced to in November, while at level 13 (of the 18) Freelance pilot. Already up a few million too, just from space components and random other stuff.

CoV, because I asked for it from the wife before the NGE was announced. It's ok, but I'm already playing my old CoH guy again, since at the low levels, CoV is exactly the same game anyway.

I cancelled WoW a few weeks ago. A solid year was enough for now. I'll be back for the expansion I'm sure. Nothing is ever final (http://www.darniaq.com/phpNews/news.php?action=fullnews&showcomments=1&id=174) in this genre.

And all of this is with my new toys (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2162,CONTENTID=10709). I'd review the Logitech MX 3000, but the last cordless setup I gave a go was years ago, and sucked. So I'm no pro at them. All I can say is that the keyboard feels awesome, the mouse has a higher resolution than my old cord one, and all the cool foozles on the keyboard itself have already become required parts of my computer use. Someday I may even take advantage of the cordless aspect.

Alright. I'll own up too.

The last year saw me in and out of SWG twice, and in WoW, but only for a few weeks. Levels are hte Suk, for me anyways.

Having been burned out of my moisture farm this fall by the new Jedi horde (casts a disparaging glance towards Sky), I have return to my home in the Desert. I have intention to stay to see the end of this telling, which will probably be before summer.

To be honest ATITD isn't my cup of tea either. Far to cooperative/competitive for a hermit like me. But given that almost every other VW save aging UO has been reduced to ash by the fires created from the friction of the treadmills, it is likely where I will remain awaiting Hrose and DQ's miracle VW with free game inside the box!(TM).

Heres hoping for a better New Year for all.

I don't know what any of this means.   :?  Except the last bit... Happy New Year to you, too!   :-)

The only game I have installed right now is Dark & Light. I would play, but they cant seem to put out  stable client. At least I am not paying for it.

Horde PvE Server: 60 Rogue, 44 Priest, 35 Warrior, 35 Hunter, 22 Warlock, 8 Shamen
Alliance PvE Server: 25 Druid*, 18 Mage*, 10 Paladin*
Alliance RP Server: 22 Priest*

*Active

Unforturnatly, all now have logon queues primetime evenings (10-20min).  Thats why I left my first server to start with.  I'm not moving anymore and waiting for the next game to come out.

I come back to WoW and my server now has 300 man queues at primetime.   It's worse than I imaged it would be.  To don my tinfoil hat a bit, the queues have gotten worse since the new servers were announced.  (Yes, this was postulated as a Blizzard tactic in another WoW thread)

Archimonde has instituted a new "silent queue" technology.

During primetime when you login to your account you will hang for literally 10 minutes before your characters appear, with an additional 5minute+ wait once you select one and hit join world.  Its nice, I'm glad the bajillion dollars they have made (are making) is being put to good use.

WoW:
Archimonde (Alliance-PvP):
60 Warrior, 36 Warlock, 1 Pally (waiting to see the new talents), 14 Priest, with various other alts including a 27 druid that I dont play.

Pretty sure that's common on all congested servers nowadays.  God help you if you get booted during a raid. 

I thought Crushridge was crowded until last week when I looked in the realm list and saw it is labeled "Low".  God help you bastards on the high-pop servers.  I don't see how you ever get anything done.

They get plenty of stuff done. When they can't log in, that leaves copious amounts of time to accomplish things IRL.

Currentply playing WoW on Daggerspine(PvP), on horde side.  Have a level 18 warlock, level 10 mage, level 8 druid.  Been having fun... CoH had made me forget how addictive/fun item-centric gameplay can be.

Alkiera

WoW with 6 alts.  I just gradually work on each as long as they have rest exp available.  No raiding at all unless it is quick (less than 2 hours) and my guild is actually ready to go.  That's been mainly strat, scholo, and DM.

I split my time with WoW on  :nda:

I have joined the unwashed masses in Eve Online as of last night. So far I am enjoying myself. It is awfully pretty, and it has a nice casual pace to it. Me likey.

EVE casual (perfect game for it).  Considering reinstalling EQ2 but for the hours the patching will take.  ALthough not looking forward to that gulf after Stormhold.  And have to reroll (Rangers still teh suck I presume?)  Can't take WoW, since I won't play hardcore just because the end-game is hard-core. 

After resubbing to multiple games and sampling what I had forgotten about them, I took a break for the holidays. After the holidays, I settled on the one that drew me in the most - EQ2. So that's where I reside for the moment. With the upcoming expansion in February and Desert of Flames already available, I'm thinking I'll stick with it for a bit. If it's one thing you can always count on SOE for, it's fairly fast expansion releases (at least in regards to the EverQuest series) once they get things rolling. The negative? I never reach the end game. The positive? There will always be "content" for me to play through. At the very least, I can get lots of quests. Same goes for WoW, but I just didn't feel drawn back to it after the holidays. Can't figure out why either as I love the Warcraft universe. Ah well.

Which server, Soukyan.  I'm Midden on Steamfont, if your there.  There are a few from here playing, not very many though.

Edit:  Nevermind.  I just noticed you're already in the guild.

I'm still playing CoH/CoV (CoV mainly), I'm a serious altaholic - something like 32 characters last time I counted. Probably less than a dozen past level 20 and none past 40. Most of the time I'm on Victory.

I made a pact with a friend to level a character to 60. (I normally quit at around 35 just burning out on the grind). Hit 48 two nights ago so we'll see what happens. I'm pretty sure already that WOW isn't my game.

Been playing a lot of BF2 as well. Been badge whoring. I managed to get my explosives and purple heart badge on one map!

Still in WoW. My guild is making a big PVE push right now. We have got Rag on farm status now, and are working on Razorgore. There is a good chance he will go down tonight.

60 Undead Rogue - PVP (Main character)
60 Undead Warlock - PVP (Semi inactive)
17 Troll Hunter - PVP (New, very fun)
36 Night Elf Warrior - PVP (Retired)