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ged to save content for future level cap increases i had a bad experience with lotro s original launch though it took me several months to get into the 40 s it took turbine about a year to produce enough content to make leveling to the original cap a pleasant experience for solo players since then i ve been very nervous about completing content at the level cap for fear that the next expansion would be similarly lacking in sources of exp fortunately turbine s actions since have proved my fears unfounded even if some future expansion does launch without enough solo quests there are now enough forms of repeatable content such as daily quests and skirmishes to make up the missing exp if needed rift finally reach the level cap investigate the endgame rift spent most of 2011 as the best mmo that just never reached the top of my to do list month after month while i respect the reasoning behind trion s pro subscription stance the need to set aside a month at a time to focus on this game like it was still 2010 is definitely hurting this game s appeal in the crowded marketplace i would gladly pay by the day or the week but this game is not sufficiently better than its competition for me to be excited about setting aside an entire month to play it in any case trion is supposedly going to give me 3 days of game time as compensation for their servers being hacked which will get me to the game s level cap from there it will be a question of how much i like what i see eq2 enjoy world events on my main without having to subscribe try to complete current dungeon content betray to the evil side to see content collect houses perhaps try the troubadour the good news is that i no longer need to use a throw away eq2x alt to see holiday and world event content in this game now that i can have year around access to my main the bad news is that my progress kind of screeched to a halt due to velious highly regimented dungeon progression and attempting to deal with the plat cap for non subscribers is not going to make this easier will new dungeons continue to ramp up in difficulty even though the current ones are already unpopular for pug s will there be new solo content or will they tune all future content to require the use of npc mercenaries and thus the purchase of the aod expansion much as all solo quest rewards are now legendary quality to require the purchase of gear unlock tokens one project that i am seriously considering is taking my main and having her betray over to the evil faction to see the revised freeport content collect some houses in the evil cities you don t lose houses when you switch sides though you will be kill on sight with the local guards as appropriate etc this might also be an opportunity to take the troubadour class for a spin though doing so may or may not require a paid class unlock i ve never been interested in sticking with alts in eq2 to date so i might as well take my main over to see what the rest of the content looks like dcuo gear my main up for dlc content work on one or more alts to see the other storylines ironically my challenges with dcuo are similar to what i m facing in eq2 the currency cap is not friendly to non subscribers and will likely keep me out of the game s more challenging content this in turn affects my ability to gear up to qualify for the content that i actually am willing able to run and pay for swtor play one or more storylines so i hear there s some game that s like an mmo about star wars or something seriously my current computer situation more on this in a minute has me holding off on swtor but i fully expect to pick up this game and spend some time working on the various storylines in 2012 i had originally figured that i would play a sith inquisitor based on the theory that i can play a guy with a gun in any number of other gameworlds however i ended up really liking both the personalities and the gameplay for both the smuggler and the imperial agent other mmo s so now i m on my seventh subheading without having covered ddo or runes of magic both of which i have spent money on in the past lineage 2 just went free to play in north america and aion became the first major mmo i m aware of in which the european market beat the north american to a non subscription switch which i assume will force the us servers to follow suit if that was not already planned by the time the dust settles there will probably be at least a dozen major mmo s i haven t played that originally launched as subscription games i could literally try a different one every month for 2012 i don t think i m going to go to that extreme but it raises a point about how tough the current marketplace is for new entrants not only must version 1 of your new game be competitive with version 7 of the competition s but your game has a 50 buy in and a subscription while their s has no buy in in my case even the time to download the client and the hard drive space to store yet another one and try a new game for a night or two is starting to approach prohibitive ps3 games on my christmas loot haul include uncharted 3 arkham city and the metal gear solid trilogy i have yet to finish assassin s creed 2 and it has two sequels out that will be somewhere on my playlist other games on my wish list include infamous 2 tomb raider trilogy and the new one if when it arrives and possibly ffxiii 2 the discerning reader will note that only two of those are not currently released my time crunch on the console is as bad as on the pc though at least on the console showing up a year or three late means paying dramatically less for the games computer building i am thoroughly dissatisfied with my alienware m11x original revision which has had a number of problems first the hinge broke when the machine was less than three months old dell replaced this because it was a well documented issue but it was an inconvenient situation for a week or two until this could be resolved then the power cord plug started slipping out of the back of the system which left the machine unexpectedly shutting down for lack of power when i thought it was plugged in then the battery which has a 12 month warranty went completely dead at the 14 month mark this is also a commonly reported issue with the machine now i own a portable 11 inch laptop that has to be tethered to an outlet unless i want to throw good money after bad by spending 200 300 on a new battery for a 700 machine on top of all of that i apparently did not comprehend exactly how slow the processor was in all the hype about how the machine would run this that and the other thing even overclocked which dell will not guarantee will work the specs are below the minimums for rift and swtor anyway it s time for a new machine and i m finally steeling myself up to build a computer i find the first step or so the one where you can physically ruin a 300 processor intimidating but the difference in cost and quality makes this a skill i really should have in the long run i will most likely build something in the 800 1000 range with an i5 and a single graphics card possibly a cheaper placeholder so i can spend more on components that are harder to replace later i d love to have an ssd and it seems like there is something to be said for avoiding current hard drive shortages but i do need a fair amount of storage due to the number of games i play in any case i m sure i ll be writing more about this topic once i actually go through the process the blog this will be post number 185 for the year which is the lowest postcount i ve had since i started the blog partway through 2008 there are several drivers for this i m doing less work on the blog over the weekends i m writing longer posts and i m not feeling obliged to post something just to bump the update time on the rss feed overall though the current schedule where i do 2 3 posts during the week and maybe a post on the weekend seems to be working in any case there s going to be plenty to do and write about in the coming year happy new year and i look forward to hearing from all of you in 2012 posted by green armadillo at 9 58 am 6 comments labels aion business models dcuo ddo eq2 lotro my characters pc building pvd rift runes of magic star wars wow thursday december 29 2011 2011 mmo expenditures and accomplishments i m never quite sure how to handle my new year s canada day resolution wrap up for the year realistically most of them are blown by july in any case and the discussion invariably bleeds into what i m planning for next year this year i m going to try something different and focus solely on the past what i spent on each title i played and what i got for my money for the sake of my sanity i have chosen to bill content currency purchases expansions or free to play content packs in the year that i actually paid for them even though i may continue to consume it in future years and to track subscription time in the year it was actually used rather than paid for games are listed in the order in which the accomplishments appeared in my twitter feed wow 54 40 completed a tour of the newbie zones post cataclysm advanced my mage the last level to 85 completed all heroic dungeons both cataclysm launch and patch additions at least once still working on rep and gear but qualified for the looking for raid finder advanced warrior from level 82 to level 85 completed all of the holidays through mid summer to obtain my second violet protodrake actually healed some pug 5 mans on a mid level priest alt with cataclysm launching in december 2010 i had just paid for the expansion and was on the tail end of a 90 day subscription at the beginning of january approx 8 40 for 18 days i paid 30 for two months of time around world events in late april and late june i signed up for the annual pass in late october i m choosing to account this as 16 for two months this year with 60 for diii and 80 for 10 months both applied to next year s budget this will either be a bargain or a budget buster depending on how much use i get out of it so far i m not spending nearly as much time per month under the discounted annual plan as i was when it was costing me 15 but i m enjoying that time more because i don t feel that i have to force myself to grind day in and day out to maximize the value of the 15 one month subscription rift 48 playtested a bunch of alts during the paid beta phases settled on cleric leveled from 1 to 48 and 3 4 leveled alts to the 10 19 range on the other three callings actually healed some pug s using the dungeon finder i paid 48 for a digital collector s edition back in january and have not paid since note that this included access to the paid portions of the closed beta as well as three extended retrial weekends lotro 20 in cash and 10 in gift card which i value less than cash comleted solo ified volume ii currently working on enedwaith and associated book of volume iii i paid 20 for the black friday sale isengard bundle which came with 1000 tp s i wouldn t have paid 10 for 1000 tp s and a cosmetic outfit but the half off sale made this a 5 upgrade i also turned a 10 gift card at a brick and mortar store into a 750 tp card which is a terrible exchange rate but the store had nothing else i wanted for 10 i ve used some of the tp for the enedwaith quest pack a second milestone destination and the 30 minute milestone cooldown reduction for my main which are collectively definitely worth the price of the points i paid for them my remaining lotro playtime was in content that i paid to unlock via expansion purchases in 2009 eq2 85 completed lyriana s enervated mythical advanced from 191 aa s to 267 beat first seven dungeons in the velious progression obtained about half of my t2 armor i paid 45 for three months of game time and 40 for the dov expansion i also received 45 days of compensation time for the hacking debacle cost my identify dun dun dun up until december i occasionally used a silver eq2x account purchased last year with promotional station cash balances that i didn t pay for that i occasionally used for world events or limited time quests i was expecting to spend about 20 to unlock my character after the free to play switchover but soe s decision to grandfather in existing characters meant that i only had to pay to unlock my current gear which i was able to do out of my remaining promotional sc balance that said i did decline to purchase the year s second expansion box along with the 20 paid add on race that arrived with velious this game would have been exceptionally expensive for someone who actually stayed with it the full time and paid full price for stuff as it was released were it not for all the freebies for being hacked and for changing the business model runes of magic 15 advanced from 30 druid 30 rogue to 57 druid 53 warden 50 rogue test drove a bunch of alts into the 20 20 20 range i spent 15 on diamond currency i purchased a mount and some daily quest tickets and i have just over 5 left vanguard 5 escaped the generic isle of dawn leveled character to 11 disciple 10 crafter 12 diplomat spent 5 to upgrade my eq2 subscription to station access for one month so i could extend my vanguard free trial by a bit dcuo 10 reached level 30 on a hero completed solo campaign experimented with some alts on both factions platforms i spent 10 in the december s triple station cash sale for 3000 sc and immediately spent 999 sc on the lightning strikes dlc pack which unlocked the new powerset and upgraded my account to premium i d been considering paying the full 10 for the pack anyway so it became an absolute no brainer with an extra 2000 sc note that some of this balance may eventually get spent on eq2 instead of dcuo such is the perk of soe s unified account system i will also tip my hat to soe for allowing players to purchase currency in any increment of 5 without getting hit with funky punitive exchange rates ddo 0 no additional expenditures this year i spent 100 in 2010 and spent about 70 of that on unlocking the content and character options i continue to use sporadically kingdom of loathing 0 no additional money spent i did sink something like 20 30 in this game back in 2007 2008 or so ps3 psp beat portal 2 35 beat infamous 1 psn hacking debacle freebie beat uncharted 1 christmas present in 2010 currently working on assassin s creed 2 10 currently working on kingdom hearts birth by sleep psp christmas 2011 present these obviously really mmo purchases and aren t included in the totals below i just record them for the sake of perspective grand total all told i spent basically 240 not counting the 10 gift card the ps3 games or the 140 committed to blizzard products next year nor i suppose do i count the amount of patience and attention it takes to await and grab some of the more substantial deals i got this year when you consider that a single subscription mmo with a 40 expansion box and 15 in monthly fees will run you 220 annually that s really not bad for what i m getting fo...