What’s gone and what’s not
Openedge asked what games you’ve permanently removed from your hard-drive. What game have you given up on and said “Enough, I’m not doing this anymore”
What’s gone
I removed two games right before installing Warhammer, and the first one was easy. Pirates of the Boring Burning Sea finally got the boot. This game was on my PC way back in January and I never resubscribed. I even gave it another go when I upgraded to Sony’s Station Access. 20 minutes later and I wished for that 20 minutes of my life back. Goodbye PotBS, you broke my heart.
The second one I removed was a harder choice. Tabula Rasa was a game which had aspects I enjoyed. I liked the setting, I liked the world, I liked the quests and I don’t normally like questing. I was determined to get to level 30 and the final tier choice, which I did. I had the choice of Medic, a healing focused class obviously, or Exobiologist, a Necro/Healer type thing. Since I’d practically solo’d the entire game to date it seemed pointless gimping myself with a healer and the Exo sounded awesome, so I went Exo. It felt a bit ‘meh’ to me in the end and I would’ve preferred to be a healer class in groups. That’s where the game fell short for me; groups. And since I love groups I decided to put this one to bed as well. If you’re a solo gamer, TR might be for you.
What’s not
EQ2’s still on my hard-drive <shrugs> as is Vanguard. I actually liked Vanguard. I loved the big beautiful world and I loved to do a dungeon crawl in a group and I found a lot of opportunities to do that. I liked the depth and complexity, Diplomacy etc. What it didn’t have though was roleplay. Even though I joined three roleplay guilds during the five months I played I found absolutely no RP. Guilds were all small as well and I never did anything with guildies. Perhaps if I hit the level cap, I was 43/50, I might have had a chance to raid and stuff with a guild. But in the end I just felt like a solo, guildless player going from PuG to PuG.
Age of Conan is also still installed. Mostly because it takes up 23 GB on my hard-drive and I can’t be bothered reinstalling and patching it if I decide to play again. I may revisit this, I may not. If I were to play it again I doubt I’ll play my Tempest of Set, I just wasn’t happy with healing at all in this game. I’d probably roll a ranger or assassin, which will be a change for me, a career healer.
The other game that’s still on my box, and one I haven’t played for over a year and only played it for a couple of months, is World of Warcraft. What, I’m not a WoWboi? No I’m not, but there’s not really anything wrong with WoW, it just didn’t grab me all that much. But it’s always in the back of my mind that I might try it again, third times a charm and all that.
And Warhammer of course, which is my current love. It satisfies all my grouping needs and the PvP/RvR is so much fun.
Comments
Comment from Openedge1
Time: October 15, 2008, 9:02 am
Well done, and good choices.
I pulled TR a while back. You are right that the solo centric playstyle is too obvious there.
As to Conan, what fixed it for me WAS playing something I normally did not play (Necromancer)
I avoided the heal classes (we are a lot alike in that respect…), even though I tried the Bear Shaman, but I kept my Tempest as it is ONLY for Duos, which it works perfectly well for..
I just started a Conqueror also and I am duly impressed there as well. I NEVER play melee classes, so this is what AoC is…
It changes everything we know about MMO’s.
Must be why I am still happy..
But, I suggest to wait for patch 3.0 and then they plan a “free” return soon.
Enjoy WAR!…
Cheers folks.
Comment from caliga
Time: October 16, 2008, 12:42 am
A “play for free” offer will get me logged in I would expect. Though right now I can’t imagine what AoC has that would make me want to play it, other than hawt chicks. Honestly, I’d rather play VG.
Comment from Ainilome
Time: October 30, 2008, 5:18 pm
Woo for me backreading.
What’s sad is that Vangaurd had one HELL of an RP community at launch. There were multiple taverns, both planned events and places you knew you could drop by and dig up RP. There was a really active fansite and Florendyll was the place to be. It all changed once SoE got it and merged servers. People quit, VRP died and there was never a flagged RP server again.
I never had any interest in AoC and haven’t played EQ2 or WoW in years.
Tabula Rasa as well had a freaking awesome RP community at beta/launch. Lack of content and the rest of it’s quirks quickly drew the player base away and that seemed to die as well, though I’d quit long before you did aparently.
Currently the only other MMO on my machine is LoTRO. Not because it’s the only one I’d go back to, but because if I kept my 15+ mmo play history all installed I’d need a hard drive about four times the size of my current one 
Comment from caliga
Time: October 30, 2008, 5:39 pm
@ Ainilome
Woo indeed for backreading 
Tabula Rasa was pretty awesome the first month of launch, then it just died. I was an officer in a RP guild at launch and we had 45 active RP’ers. After the free month, we had 16. The leader decided to pack up and went to LotRO.
If VG had a larger, more active RP community, I’d probably still be there, or at least be there part-time. But WAR is keeping me very entertained so far, and the Phoenix Throne community and my guildies *hugs* are awesome.
caliga
Comment from Kyrana
Time: October 14, 2008, 4:24 pm
The only things I have on my hard drive right now are WAR and EQ2. EQ2 was my first love, so it’s a bit tough to hit that “uninstall” button, even though I haven’t played it in more than a month or so, nor do I have any immediate plans of returning. However, my husband sometimes games on my machine, and he still has an active account, so I’m leaving it on there for now. I uninstalled LOTRO (pretty game, not much substance), Tabula Rasa (great concept, not enough social interaction) and Age of Conan (was taking up way too much space, though I may give it another look in 6 months or so if I hear better things). Right now, I’m having way too much fun with WAR to consider looking at anything else–plus keeping up with running a guild takes up the huge chunk of my time that I might otherwise spend dabbling in another game.