Another week, another rant!

Well I still can't get into Neocron, while I had no plans to resubscribe anyway it would have been nice to have spent alittle more than 2 evenings messing around with it. I've posted about my connection problems in the official forums but haven't had any decent suggestions. I would email their tech support but I've already got them on my old character transfer ticket (which I suspect they won't get around to doing until the free trial expires) and I probably won't get any decent help out of them anyway (since it appears to be a problem at my end and not theirs - most games support is crap when it comes to things like that). The odd part is that it seems to work fine on my old dial up connection which leads me to suspect it's either my firewall or my broadband. Thing is neither of these have changed and nothing else has stopped working. The more I think about it however the more it occurs to me that all the crashes I reported in my previous blog were a product of the same problem (it just got alot worse thats all!)

Whats worse is that I really could have done with getting into Neocron to give me something to do. I'm kinda burned out on EQ2 monster bashing (and tradeskills are just as much or a grind) which is not a good sign when you're only level 23, and can't find a decent reason to play anything else I'm subscribed to right now (which would be Matrix Online, Star Wars Galaxies and the free Anarchy Online account I've barely touched since I opened it). I'll admit I've got a desire to play Eve again but I know it'll be just like last time and once I get in, realise all I can really do is mine or low level 'rat hunt (unless I eBay credits or items) I'll have just wasted a months sub on an evenings fooling around nostalgia trip - I'd get another trial account except I'll be able to do even less with that!

I suppose I really ought to sort out a Face of Mankind login since I downloaded and installed the bloody thing, otherwise the beta will be over and it'll all have been a waste of time.

Theres another part of me that wants to play Quake 4, I did a couple of levels last week when my server was down for the evening (through no fault but my own) and it was cool. But theres always this thing when I play offline games where I'm sat there thinking that I really ought to be online since I playing a monthly sub and not using it.....

SWG continues to crash and burn and the patch notes just seem to make a bad situation worse (harvester nerf followed by a species ability nerf), some of you may have noticed that Jeff has removed the blog entry that my first ever blog linked to (and not posted a new one in quite some time). Guess he's decided to get out of that particular kitchen (seriously dude, you killed the game for thousands of people (me included), did you not expect there to be a backlash?)