Pressing the Pause Button

Dear Ladies and Gentlenoobs,

As many of you may be aware I started this blog to chronicle my adventures in Warhammer Online, a game I’ve been waiting for for a very long time. Recently I haven’t been playing it, new MMOs are not without their niggles and I am sitting tight for patch 1.1 to see if the game transforms my character into something that is viable to play. I do not want to be one of the horde of Sorceresses or other classes scattered about. At the moment I have really lost the drive to play, this is probably down to not getting fully involved in the guild I am in as well as more recently the reversion of a lot of my actual RL friends to Wrath of the Lich King (which in part I am responsible for). With the Magus not being much fun I got Wrath and have been enjoying myself a lot, I know people don’t like the game and have pretty strong feelings about it and those who play it. However, if there’s one thing I know it is to respect others and hell, if I want to play it, I’ll play it and that is what I am doing.

I do want Warhammer to succeed, but at the moment I can’t bring myself to play it. I will give 1.1 a whirl when that arrives but at the moment my game of choice has switched back to Blizzard’s masterpiece. So, could I just switch the blog focus? I could, but I don’t think that is fair, if I continue blogging then it’ll be on a new blog set apart from the legacy established here. When 1.1 hits I’ll jot my thoughts down here, that will spell out whether I’ll be staying around or not. The blog isn’t dead, it’s just on hold, anyone with an interest are therefore advised to add the feed to your RSS reader as that will update you when there are new posts without checking everyday.

What also has spurred this decision on is the viewing figures, sure I don’t have a lot of readers, however, those outside my circle of friends who come here seem to be looking for one thing only, I posted the top searches a few weeks back and I can get up to 10 readers a day at times, 2 of those will be reading the new posts, everyone else is after naked Twi’leks, of which there a distinct lack on this site. If you’re that way inclined try DeviantArt, you’ll get more success than here, but nude fan art of star wars races isn’t my thing (neither nude art of any description) so you’ll never find it here folks.

If I continue in WoW rather than WAR this blog will slowly decay like the ruins of many an ancient civilisation. This was and is a WAR blog, despite having gone off the tracks recently. Unless I suddenly receive and overwhelming response begging me to carry on don’t expect any new posts until 1.1, after that, we’ll see.

What do you mean no “Things I Learnt at the Weekend” post?

That’s correct dear reader(s), you will notice the “suspicious by it’s absense” Things I Learnt post. This is primarily down to the fact that I have had the worst possible weekend where gaming has been involved. First thing to note is that I was out on Saturday, this is purely of my own volition and had been worked out in advance. This wasn’t something that fell in my lap and put me out of kilter and delayed levelling, this absense was factored into my plan, so Saturday was a good day, spent away from the humdrum of the everyday world. Now, Sunday was a different matter, as was Saturday night. I was hoping to hit 54 on my Shaman (more on that later) this weekend. I’d gotten to 51 on Friday and was looking forward to hitting Outland in the first weekend of Christmas (December is pretty much Christmas so I renamed the month). Saturday night after returning from my outing would provide the perfect springboard to 52 and then an afternoon and evening of gaming on Sunday would leapfrog me to my target.

Wife: Enter stage left.

Now starts the derailing of an otherwise symphony of mathematical levelling precision. I paraphrase “Why don’t we invite everyone to dinner that you’re spending the day with?” Of course, wife karma means that I must accept this request (they are my friends after all and blowing them off for a game is decidely dodgy) so, everyone comes round, we have a good night, levelling plan is revised to hit 53 rather than 54, one level is not too bad. I can take that.

So, Sunday afternoon comes. “Are we OK to go to my parents for dinner?” For the love of all that is sacred……. not only do I spend the next hour drying up all the dishes that were used to entertain 4 friends along with my wife and I on Saturday night, now I have to forego my whole evening as well? Pack the laptop and some DVDs then (if I had a power supply at home I’d have taken my works laptop and a copy of WoW and used their wireless to play). I took my personal laptop and watched Transformers and the first half pf Pitch Black. I managed to get to 300xp off 52, I’ll finish that off tonight before going out. So, I got a grand total of 2 levels over 3 days of gaming. I had a plan and everything but then real life threw itself in front of my XP train and the ensuing wreck meant much delays on the line. I do however, have a mostly free week this week. I have warned my good lady that I am going to be WoWing this week. I know I have to sleep and am not anywhere near as Hardcore as I used to be, otherwise I’d really have some kind of nervous spaz over this.

This post may seem like some kind of nervous spaz, however it merely highlights the lack of time I’ve had for gaming and therefore I cannot really post a “Things I Learnt” as the only real thing I learnt was that my Shaman is awesome, an elemental and an enhancement shaman together in a group should be illegal and that nothing can screw up a weekends planned gaming quite like your better half.

Provided no more leaves fall on the track we’ll see how far we can go before the next catastrophic infrastructure failure.

<Insert amusing Monorail cat lolcat here to taste!>

See you tomorrow!