I apologize to those of my readers who are still around and who might have thought they’d get any sort of meaningful commentary from me about The Secret World’s release or the impending, almost anti-climactic (no, really, who am I kidding? It was always going to be climactic) FINALLY of Guild Wars 2. I’m still alive, though a number of real-world matters have pushed updating the blog and gaming itself to a bit of a backburner. Everyone’s fine and healthy, though, and I’m not pregnant, so I can’t really complain.
Mr. Randomessa and I have been enjoying our limited time in The Secret World, however. We’re lifetime subscribers, which makes the next few days blissfully decision-free since we don’t have to evaluate how much we’ve been playing or how much we intend to play. We play when we can, and we’ve been having a blast. We’re running with different factions so that we can read each other our respective factions’ responses to our mission status, and watch as we sabotage one another.
We steered relatively clear of the last Guild Wars 2 beta weekend event because we’re honestly just ready to play the real thing at this point. We spent just enough time tinkering with character creation and the Asura and Sylvari starting areas to develop a whole new appreciation for those arrogant little midgets. As someone who previously had my Sylvari main’s life journey planned out for the past two years, I can say that I for one welcome my new Asuran overlords.
It’s my hope that life settles down soon enough (and enough in general) that I can really sit back and enjoy playing these games and continue to post about them, because from what I can tell, this is going to be the best year for MMOs for me. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that after this I may very well be done with looking for the next Great Thing. These two seem to have us covered, and I hope they remain to for a good long time.
Hope you all are well, my friends in the computer. Ciao Ciao!
Casual Is As Casual Does 
I’m looking forward to your future posts; I’m happy to hear that you haven’t gone for good. =)
Managing life around MMOs can be challenging, so GL with that! 🙂
I’ll keep an eye on your blog in any case.
Great to see you’re still alive! My Star Trek career has been derailed by getting a family member into World of Tanks, and the rest of my MMO time is taken up by LOTRO festivals of late. But I still intend to go back and reach 50 in STO. The fact that most of the recent STO weekends have included episodes only for level 50s has probably also affected my lack of draw in that regard.
I also picked up a copy of Dragon Age: Origins and DA2 on very good sale from Amazon digital a few weeks back, so I’ve been slowing working through DA:O. I started a human noble female rogue, stopped that playthrough at the Ostagar battle because I wanted to see the male dwarf noble intro, actually started one then ditched it and started another because I accidentally overwrote a save and locked myself into a dialog tree I didn’t like. Got my dwarf noble warrior as far as Lothering, Soldier’s Peak, and Sulcher’s Pass before deciding I wanted to try a mage. So now I’m rocking my female elf mage who’s completed all of the above plus Broken Circle quest line, return to Ostagar, part of Denerim, various side quests, and was last saved on the 3rd gauntlet test for the Ashes. Favorite party is Alistair, Liliana, and Wynne so far though I occasionally swap out one for a particular quest or area. Also, Mana Clash FTW.
Welcome back. 🙂