It’s a vicious cycle we’ve got ourselves into. MotH and I have seriously ancient computers. Despite this, we sign up for every available beta. We’ve been beta-testing games since roundabout 1999: For me, it started with EverQuest and continued until World of Warcraft. Lately and not suprisingly, because of our machine specs, we don’t get into any betas. Very understandable and only slightly disappointing as our time is severely limited at the moment by EBO …
WoW Beta Screenshot – Infernals Invade Ironforge
Another WoW Beta Ironforge Invasion
Our gaming requirements have slowly evolved as we’ve grown older. Starting out, we could sit online with a time-sink such as EQ and easily invest the better part of our weekends/free-time to plugging away at something insignificant. Once we moved on to games with less time commitment, like Dark Ages of Camelot, we no longer wanted the massive time-sink but expected some advancement for our daily investment. World of Warcraft – unfortunately – took this “drive thru” gaming experience to the extreme with ease of levelling. After doing much of what WoW had to offer pre-Burning Crusades including big guild raiding, multiple capped characters of both Horde and Alliance varieties and PvP, we burned out and quit in October 2006. Our new home purchase and the arrival of EBO only cemented our roles as casual gamers.
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Ultimately, now firmly entrenched in casual gamerdom, our ideal MMO would be a happy middle-ground of time-sink and a game that would give you some insta-gratification each and every time you logged on. Involved and meaningful tradeskills / crafting with reasonable levelling times – not as epic as EQ, not as “r u 70 yet dude? WTFLOLZ Im alredy got 5 @ 70″ as WoW. Possibly involving DAoC-like PVP which I found far superior than PvP in WoW. We held high hopes for Vanguard; we still have 2 unopened copies sitting in our computer room (if anyone’s interested?).
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We were planning our next gaming rig purchase around the release of either Age of Conan or Warhammer Online. After reading and hearing mostly negative reviews of AoC’s beta, our hopes of new, shiny PCs now lie solely with mega-delayed Warhammer Online. /fingers crossed. Maybe we can buy the new PCs for a better shot at Warhammer beta – perhaps a dork-step too far?
The gaming question at the forefront: Wait for the PCs or bite the bullet and plunk down the cash for a PS3?
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