Runes of Magic US / AU

Used to be exiting, log in into game, do cool things, plan what you will do... ahh good old times...

But lately is getting to the point of me getting asleep while doing GG?!

Wonder if anyone else has problem(s) like this...

Average day:

Log in, move main character to house, care for plants, move it to Varenas, say HI to Mr. Cedic, run Survival and Curse of Terror mini games. If you have enough shells, pull another fail stat from shell vendor and run ancient treasure mini game. Once this is done (already around 30-40 minutes into game) go back to Varenas, as this mini game is strategically placed far from snoop. Takes 2 snoops to get there from closes snoop.

Once there, run daily quests, in AKOR it is a bit easier then in Xaviera with butterfly (that used to be raid). This should take 5 or less minutes, and if you see nice EOJ farm, you could help and get some nice EOJs as reward.

Now move back to Varenas once more again (or if you like to challenge your computer and clear mind, you can try to go to Dalanis >> Obisidan >> Ystra >> Aslan Valley and as everyone else, run GG. Takes about 1 hour for main character to complete all of this. Imagine doing the same thing on alts?! (and at some point with BROKEN crafting and low server population, you HAVE TO shift focus on those poor little fellas. Now, to level them with dailies is clearly not very good option. (Mr. Pink Hat can share story of his alt leveling his secondary class to 72.)

Not much excitement, and in hope to see something good, you might just make the same mistake as I did last night and click on Cash Shop. WTF was first thing on my mind - I forgot to feed some eggs to my pet. Fast move to closest AH and search for Fire pet eggs. Cheapest egg was 10K bid, 30K purchase. Everything else just tells either Frogster Sales team started playing game and placed L4 egg for 200K *would explain greed* or there are really some clueless players in game. Nah, my pet does not feel need to merge today... and 23 dias for damn pot is just out of question.

Then you check forum, Fan posted class-related rant - ohhh, that just made my day even better, but nothing to worry about, with 10-20 bucks a month you will not get near end game, and with this kind of excitement in game, nor I will spend that much money, as it clearly is not worth spending any with current CS.

This all brings me to point that I can't wait that other game switch to F2P model. Year ago I would not even consider it, but week after week of the same 'boring' - we will forward this further - excuses will make sure that I see some friends from there there...

There is still some time for change, and we see changes, but back to beginning of my post, is it too little and too late?

Wonder if I have major symptoms of Fanatitis - very dangerous disease.

As you can tell, I don't even bother with SW. Was not in single SW since I came back... with my hurdle with in game support. That just brings another not so nice memory of being let down by support, who acknowledged new bug but did not reimburse my lost item because it was not in list of known cases of lost items?!

Wouldn't be new bug if it was previously reported and known bug... but ohh... someone in HQ had some brain to send item which lifted my self-made ban.

I am reading 'Ringworld' by Larry Niven - interesting how some people had good imagination and vision. (book was published 30-40 years ago)

Last 2 mights went to bed just after 10... thanks to some other experiments I am running. (can't talk about those here)

Why there is no 'rain' in RoM? It would give better tone to the whole game state imho.

Are you applying that my personality placed Mr. Robbie Butcher outside of garden?

Or is it my personality that made us kill 40 worms, 60 goblins, 1-2 Evelyn, some elemental every day? I can run it fairly fast, but more and more often I find my self hitting wall and wondering why programmer clearly are asking for bots.

Take a look at pet production. Without add-on my pet would be still in L10 production, if even there... It still takes me HUGE amount of gold to level it... not at the end, but knowing that you can't even get to end game mats just kills even interest to work on it.

Crafting makes huge amount of production to level, and without enough people that require crafted materials it is almost impossible to level. I have 3 characters that I have to log into to sell only production from one of crafter for half level... really?!

IMHO, AH limit of 30 items should be lifted and/or changed to 60 or even 100 items per character.

When did you last time see not bag 3 permanent bag?

Game is more and more grind...

Where is fun in this game? Really?

About year ago it was still fun, I was doing even juice event. Today with bad memory of last event, where I end up with hundreds of fragments for pet and no pet, I just decided this is another waste of time and NOBODY did anything to fix problem with pet drops we had for last event. Hell, will not wait a year to see it fixed, and tell you the truth, 99.9% I am sure it will NOT BE fixed. (we all know that, don't we )

There is stuff that require RW fixes, but there is a lot of things that Frog can fix without waiting, only if they had real DB admin who would focus on DB back end.

I just read that 'that' other game is offering server/realm transfers because some of the servers are full and there is waiting queue to get connected to server... wish we had the same problem... can't remember seeing moderate on any of the servers, even arthemis.

Quoted from "DagothKuam;574396"

All in all, despite all its flaws, I highly enjoy playing the game.

Yep, this game has all characteristics of unhealthy marriage/relationship... it will last as long as you are able to keep up with all of those flaws... every new flaw tents to be huge draw back...