Come for the games, stay for the drama.
It struck me last night, as I was pulling Unrest for our fireplace room group, that it was the experience of taking a camp and pulling mobs to it for the group to kill — probably EverQuest’s core gameplay — is precisely the gameplay feature that no other MMO has valued enough to include in … Read more
Again, my huge advantage over Kasul is that I still am forced to work from home, but on the plus side, I get to get in the Aradune queue early and am usually able to play by the time I am done work and have supper cooking. The question of what to do during the … Read more
Aradune has returned to the endless queue strategy, which is a huge upgrade, I guess, from the “let everyone in and watch the server die” strategy they’d been trying for a couple weeks prior. This actually isn’t a big deal, for me. I work at home due to the pandemic, so about three or four … Read more
We absolutely, 100%, gave it our all. We braved the long log in queues, trying to log in as soon as we got home from work and waiting the two-three hours to play an hour or two before bed. When Darkpaw decided to vastly expand the number of people who could be logged in at … Read more
It’s a week since Aradune opened. Raid guilds have the planes of Hate and Fear on lockdown. Naggy died last night; probably Vox has died, too, when I wasn’t on to see it. Groups have level 50 alts to sit outside the group and buff and heal. I was not prepared for the pace of … Read more