"Can I borrow some burlap? And by borrow I mean keep forever?" "Yeah, I know what you meant."
So, for whatever reason, last night the boys decided they wanted to play Rift. Zach, Shaun, Ray, Scott, Nova and I marched on over. Nova wasn't really into it, I don't think, but the other five of us picked it back up today - omg, I had forgotten how much fun this game was. I always do. Such an amazing, well thought out, beautifully crafted game. And it's doubly fun running with all of the boys, they make the experience that much more awesome, which is kinda odd for me because I typically hate leveling with other people. (Helps that we're doing billions of Warfronts!)
But even WoW has been a ton more fun lately. We recently transferred our guild off of Icecrown, as the only people existing on that server anymore were either a.) douchebags or b.) quiet casuals. We consider ourselves pretty damn casual, too, but we also like to actually, you know, DO THINGS in game. And that's becoming really quite a feat on Icecrown. I logged onto the server the other day to help the people who stayed behind to rebuild Hands of Fate do some guild leveling ... and I just watched people look for other people to do heroic scenarios with for like an hour with no bites. There were a lot of people searching for things and not getting any replies. It's sad. The server is just SO dead. No one does anything, there's no competitive edge on the server to watch, trade chat is positively BARREN, and no one really cares to group up and do anything anymore. Shaun tried, for awhile, to do involve others on the server in activities and it was just impossible.
But we eventually just gave up on that and moved to Stormrage - and it was like night and day. We were all positively giddy that first week, enamored with actually seeing PEOPLE and finding groups and seeing people running things! It's hands down the best decision we could've made for the guild, and that was definitely evidenced by the way everyone in the guild vehemently embraced the move. A few of our guildies transferred their ENTIRE catalogue of toons over. Was so awesome to see so many of them be like, "Now, now, let's go!" because it really felt like it was something that was going to make all of us so much happier. It's just funny, because at least once a day someone will do something and exclaim, "GOD, I love this server". It's just so awesome and we've met, in the two weeks we've been here, a ton of amazing, awesome, non-elitist people. I think this move kind of reinvigorated all of our interest in the game, though there are definitely some people we left behind in HoF that I will sorely miss. :-(
Well, except now that we're all playing Rift again. Although Zach just derped and bugged our instance. Only Zach.
Anyway, I kind of hate that I stopped writing, cause so many good things have been happening lately. Life has been swell and that always tends to be the times that I stop writing. Probably because I get busy with shit, or whatever, so maybe that's good. BUT I had this like ... two week stint like two months ago where I just felt AWFUL on a daily basis (bad migraine stretch) which made me stop writing and then I got behind and then I felt overwhelmed that I had too much to write about so every time I thought about it I just didn't want to. But hopefully I'm over that now and I have some fun things to write about just ... not right now. :-D
Way longer ramble than intended, back to Rift!
But even WoW has been a ton more fun lately. We recently transferred our guild off of Icecrown, as the only people existing on that server anymore were either a.) douchebags or b.) quiet casuals. We consider ourselves pretty damn casual, too, but we also like to actually, you know, DO THINGS in game. And that's becoming really quite a feat on Icecrown. I logged onto the server the other day to help the people who stayed behind to rebuild Hands of Fate do some guild leveling ... and I just watched people look for other people to do heroic scenarios with for like an hour with no bites. There were a lot of people searching for things and not getting any replies. It's sad. The server is just SO dead. No one does anything, there's no competitive edge on the server to watch, trade chat is positively BARREN, and no one really cares to group up and do anything anymore. Shaun tried, for awhile, to do involve others on the server in activities and it was just impossible.
But we eventually just gave up on that and moved to Stormrage - and it was like night and day. We were all positively giddy that first week, enamored with actually seeing PEOPLE and finding groups and seeing people running things! It's hands down the best decision we could've made for the guild, and that was definitely evidenced by the way everyone in the guild vehemently embraced the move. A few of our guildies transferred their ENTIRE catalogue of toons over. Was so awesome to see so many of them be like, "Now, now, let's go!" because it really felt like it was something that was going to make all of us so much happier. It's just funny, because at least once a day someone will do something and exclaim, "GOD, I love this server". It's just so awesome and we've met, in the two weeks we've been here, a ton of amazing, awesome, non-elitist people. I think this move kind of reinvigorated all of our interest in the game, though there are definitely some people we left behind in HoF that I will sorely miss. :-(
Well, except now that we're all playing Rift again. Although Zach just derped and bugged our instance. Only Zach.
Anyway, I kind of hate that I stopped writing, cause so many good things have been happening lately. Life has been swell and that always tends to be the times that I stop writing. Probably because I get busy with shit, or whatever, so maybe that's good. BUT I had this like ... two week stint like two months ago where I just felt AWFUL on a daily basis (bad migraine stretch) which made me stop writing and then I got behind and then I felt overwhelmed that I had too much to write about so every time I thought about it I just didn't want to. But hopefully I'm over that now and I have some fun things to write about just ... not right now. :-D
Way longer ramble than intended, back to Rift!