Currently...

Well, it's 2013, and I haven't been posting here a lot lately.

I just wanted to give some insight on what's been happening...

I am still playing some of the games that I mentioned in an earlier post (those games being DCUO and STO). There's been a couple of additions and subtractions as well...

One such addition is a game called Aion which I started playing in April of 2012 when the game went "truly free" as it is called. This game is pretty cool in that you can have some of the stuff you'd normally get as a subscriber to a game, but you get the stuff completely free. Normally in a game like this, you'd be getting the maximum number of characters (and character slots) as a reward for being a subscriber, and if this game had a "Free-to-Play" option, then the free players would probably get 2 characters, but with this Truly Free model, all players (free and paying players alike) get the maximum number of characters/slots of 8. Another benefit of the Aion Truly Free model is that there's virtually no restrictions on inventory/bank slots that you can have, and if you need more, you'd just use the in-game currency to get it.

There is a cash shop with the game, and you can get boosts in XP, and some other stuff, but it's mostly cosmetic. I really like the way it's done. I haven't bought anything from the cash shop as I don't think it is really necessary for me at the point I am in with the game.

Another addition that made it was a game called Star Wars: The Old Republic. I like this game well enough, but there are some stuff about it that I feel is done incorrectly. I won't go into detail about these things, but I am not really a fan of them.

There's one game I want to mention as one I didn't like one bit after trying it for a while twice in the last year, a game called C9 (or Continent of the Ninth Seal). It was okay, as far as game play and I did like the character creation process, but at least for me, trying to get the "skill test" done at level 9 was unnecessarily difficult, and didn't add to the "challenge factor," what it did add was a sense of it not being fun. So I had about 9 characters with that game, and I immediately thought that it was time that I uninstalled the game permenantly, which I did. I deleted the 9 characters and uninstalled the game. I haven't looked back at that decision.

Recently, I decided to try Tera, a game that I thought was interesting. After spending some days on the game, I have to say that it isn't as I thought it would be (in other words, I thought it'd be fun, but it's not). I don't really like that you have to actively keep the target in the target area, that's not really difficult for most people but it can be difficult for people who aren't really used to that sort of mechanic. I haven't made my final decision on what to do with the game, I might delete my characters from the game and uninstall it which I am leaning more towards doing now more than ever.

One thing I just remembered is that I am not really playing Dynasty Warriors Online much any more, I do go onto the game at times, but I don't "battle" in the game at all. As I said, the games I mentioned above (DCUO, STO, Aion and SWTOR) are much better in my opinion.

Anyway, I just wanted to post something so here it is.

I hope you enjoy your day/night/week/month.