MMO Gamers

Well I haven’t written much lately, nor have I played much lately.  Work has been crazy busy for me last week and this week and since I do almost all my writing at work, now is the first opportunity I’ve had.

So I haven’t had the time to write or even read anyone else’s blog.  Fancy me having to work instead.  My weekend was busy too.  My sister and her man came and stayed with us so it was a socially packed weekend.  My sister lives 500 miles away so I don’t see her much.  She does, however, play Age of Conan as well so we certainly keep in touch via the game.  Since we weren’t playing Age of Conan we instead spent the weekend getting drunk and talking about Age of Conan.  We also watched both Conan movies, so we managed to get a Conan fix, even if it wasn’t in the MMO.

I did manage to read Simple Complexities and saw that the author went back to Vanguard, seeing as how he got free time compliments of SOE.  Vanguard was the game I was playing before Age of Conan released and one that I was enjoying.  Not quite enough to not try Conan but I’d managed to get a cleric up to level 38.  So I was actually missing Vanguard just a little when I read his blog post and I decided, what the hell, I’ll run the patcher and update the game and if I get an urge or the Conan servers are down I can just jump in and have a play.  So I ran the patcher, got to the account login stage, enter my account details, and WTF, I don’t have an active account.  Confused, I log into my account on the SOE website and see that I have the free play time for Everquest 2, and also free time for Star Wars Galaxies.  That’s it.  No free time for Vanguard, MXO, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Planetside, all the other SOE games I have; just EQ2 and SWG.  Perhaps I’d cancelled my VG sub too late to qualify or something; I was playing VG up until about a week or so before AoC released.

What the hell is going on SOE?