Woot. Now is a good time to write about the utter excited joy I had when I got a beta invite in the mail from the 6+ monther announcement. Knowing how many people there are out there 6 months and above, I was thinking I would never get hit by the thing (unless they decided to send it out to everyone). I just checked my mail for kicks, and wowz0rs, I had one, I had one!
Of course, the downer after that was realizing that the download was about 1.6 gigabytes, at a speed of 1.4 kb/sec. And that it would overwrite my CoH Test folder. Welp, second day, and I’m at 6 megabytes downloaded. Sighs. I think my reserved copy of CoV collector’s edition will get here first, somehow.
On the bright side, this allowed me access to boards.cityofvillains.com, which I have been reading voraciously and can now talk about. Muhahaha.
And on the second bright side, I went to Tec-Drome today and got a heapload of games. I bought Battlefield 2, Black and White 2, Max Payne 2 (still need to finish 1, heh, but the expansion was mind-blowingly cheap) and Dragonshard! Rowr.
I put in a reservation order for Dawn of War: Winter Assault. This was a game I really wanted, and I was kinda cheesed off to find out that everyone and his brother and his mother had already cleared the stock out. Oh well, just gotta wait for one week later, treat it as a reward after some incoming hard work…
Also reserved Indigo Prophecy. Supposedly a good adventure game with branching storylines. I like storylines. Good to go back to basics once in a while. And I have a gamepad, so no problems with the controller there. (I knew investing in a PC one would be worth it, woot.)
I saw a Logitech headset going for about $80. Looked damn nice for the price. Had a mike, and comfy earphones and all. The other competitor was about $175. Phew. Thing is, it’s USB, I don’t know if that’s going to work with my Soundblaster Extigy or not. (Someday, I do want to upgrade to an Audigy though, or maybe the up-and-coming X-Fi, which is drool-worthy, but I just can’t yet justify it to myself.) Someday, someday. I’ll continue to brood about it and if I still want it three months from now, mebbe then.
And yes, I reserved CoV collector’s edition. I think it will rawk. The ATs all sound pretty damn good. I am actually half-interested in the PvP aspect, and I just need to find yet ANOTHER SG who has some balls in this respect. Sighs. Am I a frackin’ curse or what? I wiggle my way into Top Ten, one of the famous SGs of Freedom, only to find it wallowing around in semi-death throes with people bored of CoH, and talking about moving to WoW. My only hope is that they are still interested in CoV, otherwise, I gotta pack up and move AGAIN. Perhaps the Conglomerate of Infinity will have a little more people. *mutters*
People still haven’t learned the Everquest and WoW and RoD lesson yet. I’m so boggled by this. But as I was talking with a family member last night, we concluded that a lot of people are inherently shallow. See, this family member was discussing with some colleagues that “Money isn’t everything. Happiness can be found elsewhere besides having lots of money.”
Well, the colleagues agreed to the first part…it isn’t everything, it’s the ONLY thing, they said. Given a free one million dollars (treat it theoretically as sufficient for thy entire family to live comfortably), would they still want TWO million dollars? YES YES OF COURSE, they said.
I dunno. Even if you come from a really poor family, I understand that one of your main concerns is having enough money to do stuff that you want to do. But what happens when you have enough, are you going to recognize that you have enough? Or are you going to join the rat race and chase for more more more cheese for forty years before having a mid-life crisis and realizing, wait, I don’t really like the taste of Cheddar or Gouda after all…
Do branded goods make you happy? A piece of clothing with a name scrawled on it that jacks up the price to $500? Why? Is it a bragging right? How different is this from say a piece of virtual equipment, some vital piece of armor you got from ye-awful-to-kill bigass Dragon of DOOM. And then after that, you find out that you are soooo attached to this piece of clothing that you don’t dare move around in it. You dress it on a dummy character to show it off, or hoard it and keep it to yourself, secure in the knowledge that HA, I HAVE IT. Been there, done that. *pokes the scads of renamed eq Juli used to wear and risk until the Shattering and a mistake on a quest spooked her out for good*
But a lot of people are still willing to rat race online. J Hence the popularity of Everquest and WoW and its clones.
CoV excites me because it’s a little like the realms system of competition that I was yakking about dunno how many years ago. It’s going to be competition between SGs, in a way. You earn salvage and prestige for your SG, ie. organization-based resources, that can be used to construct your base and unlock SG-only trials and missions and stuff. And of course, this opens up SG PvP. Player generated content via PvP, why the heck not…
Kicker is, you need a good SG. Of course, it doesn’t necessarily have to win all the time, but it has to be tight enough to make a good rivalry. Sorta like the olden days of Asc vs Inc vs DS. Face it, between the bigshots, RnF couldn’t compete, they would have to tussle with hem, Arcanes and such. :P
We’ll see. There’s still a certain amount of masochistic fun to be gained from making gimpy toons. I just ran around with “Nerfed Bug,” an ice/ss tanker, and it was kinda funny. And maybe they’ll get some lovin’ down the road.
Please…please…don’t ignore poor invul either. It’s been over-nerfed. :P
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