I love MMOs because I love exploring new worlds.
Each time you join a one, at first you
founder like a child.
The rules
of combat, the rules of advancement, the social rules that govern the small
society you’ve chosen to infiltrate, so much to learn!
Between
those structures, unique to each realm, I find my own space to occupy and draw
delight from.
Depth and mystery is why I
love these games.
The places to see and
the boundaries to push as I inhabit, either briefly or for months or years,
each digital plane of existence that catches my eye.
Lately my hardware has finally started to feel its age in the latest offerings. But I’m honestly not
really bothered by it.
There are so many
places still in my grasp I have yet to visit.
Some titans of their age that still burn bright in my memory:
Guild Wars, Runescape, Lineage, EVE, Second
Life
. . . not once have I set foot in
any of them. Newer titles also, passe to the fickle masses but still well
within what I designed my trusty rig to handle, and to me virgin
worlds: Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online, Elder Scrolls Online, Neverwinter,
Tera, and many others from the silver age when I was more active in the blogosphere.
There are also the old abandoned ones
that I never really got to see all of, but that fans have revived so that you can
see them well and truly for free now: Warhammer, Uru, Star Wars Galaxies.
I could play for years more and never get to
them all.
So even with my limited resources I have a wealth of dawns
on myriad worlds yet to untrod calling to me. But even those I may never
get to. I have enough dawns and galas on the worlds I already frequent to
attend.
I've been heavily engaged with Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online for months now, and a full expansions loom on the horizon for both.
Other tapestrys begun, woven richly at
first but now abandoned, left with threads of adventures hanging, I also have in Everquest 2, Age of
Conan, Secret World, Final Fantasy XI, World of Warcraft and many others.
Were I to forever stop visiting new worlds, I
could harvest the orchards I have already planted nearly forever.
My digital houses and apartments alone would take weeks to
spruce up. So forgive me if I don’t blog much about the latest thing.
I have enough left that I want to see in the
3
rd, 4
th , 5
th, 10th, and 20th most recent things that I can’t imagine my spare time will ever be equal to the
task.
