[Taiisien]

Well yeah i guess i am definately a refugee. I played EQ for about three years, did the family guild thing and the high end raid sceene then i realized i felt EQ was more work than the Navy was so two weeks after WoW came out i moved to it. I tried to take my time and enjoy the game not just plow through it since i knew they had no end game (I am still a HUGE fan of the aa system that EQ uses, even if there is nothing left for me to raid i can still better my toon how i want.). Eventually though of course i did find the end game and felt kinda bored and out of place. I stuck with it for about a month more and when the honor system was first released i felt ruined. so i packed up and went back to EQ.

I took it slow for a while just playin around with my friends (whom never left eq even to this day) but i eventually felt the pangs of missed raids so i joined a raiding guild again and before i knew it i was Working all over again. Again we got to end game and put it on farm status and i was content for a while but of course i had been keeping track of WoW as some of the guys i work with still played it so i switched again.

WoW was new and exciting once again but again after four or five months i felt bored and disconteded. DDO was on the horizon and i wanted to try it. Coming from the old Pen and Paper (PnP) game i thought this could be the game i was looking for. Well three days into the headstart event and i knew it was not for me. I loved their adherance to the old PnP rules and thought the game was graphically stunning but they limited themselves too much i mean who played the PnP game and did not want to try out a race that was completely fantasy like a minitaur or orc etc... DDO let me down with only four races all of which looked humanesque. Well after that let down i wanted something, anything that would again immerse me into a Fantastic World so i tried EVE which i hated, i want to see my toon grow and mature and change not the space ship i ride in, so then i tried RF Online and after evnetually getting the game controlls the way i wanted them i enjoyed a month or so of the game and then i was done. Somewhere in the mix of EQ and WoW i attemted to take up Guild Wars and hated almost everything about it. It was Visually awsome but the excessive instancing, the not being able to alter your hotkeys after you entered an instance among many other things turned me off to it as well.

So am i a refugee?? Heck Yeah i have enjoyed my time in EQ and loved it for what it was at the time but the old graphics, the constant expansions that you feel compelled to buy for little content, and the endless headaches it caused eventually put me off of it and i have tried every game i thought could replace it to no avail. I am in anguish awaiting the arrival of Vanguard i hope that it fills the hole that EQ has left (especially hoping the bard class is everything i loved about the bards in EQ).

Taiisien