Ding Level 1! (or 'Welcome to my blog')

So here I am with my very own blog - not really sure what I'm going to do with it at this point so it'll come as much as a suprise to me as it will to the reader

So why did I create this blog? Well, I was browsing the Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) forum over at www.mmorpg.com trying to gauge the reaction to the 'new game experience' (NGE) that Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) have just announced and I found a post that included a link to this blog http://mythical.blogspot.com/2005/11/shenanigans.html by one of the SWG developers. Since I was signing up to comment on that blog (I have the courage to stand by my opinion and didn't want to post anonymously) I figured I may as well get my own blog while I was at it.

For those that are interested I'm gutted with the announcement for SWG because it sounds like everything I liked about that game is being thrown out in favour of making it a carbon copy of pretty much every other MMORPG out there (just set in the Star Wars universe) and while I felt the same way about the previous Combat Upgrade (CU) and kept playing after it went live its far to say that I didn't play anywhere near as much after that went live as I did previously, I fear this will be the straw that breaks the camels back and, judging by the reaction of the players on most of the forums I've read, I'm not alone.

I could go on for hours about this, but no amount of reasoned argument is likely (going on my past experience with SOE and SWG) to make any difference at this point and I'm getting too old to be getting all het up about a game (not like I was several year back when I was playing Anarchy Online). The only thing that does bug me is that, as a Station Access subscriber, I wont be able to register my displeasure with SOE by cancelling as I still play 3 of their other games under that subscription.