Saying goodbye to SOE after 8 years

Yes, for almost 8 years i have had accounts with SOE, i played practicly all their MMO's since i started playing Star Wars Galaxies in 2004.
I played The Matrix Online, Everquest, Everquest 2, Vanguard, Pirates of the Burning Sea, DC Universe Online, Clone Wars, Free Realms, Planetside.

Until i was able to get Station Access (later called "All Access Game Pass") in the EU, i had several accounts going, so you could say i was a pretty loyal customer.
Eventhough i hardly played any of the SOE games lately i still had my account going, just in case i wanted to jump into one of their games.

But like they say: all good things come to an end.
I don't think i have to go into details as to why i am now cancelling all my SOE accounts, as an EU player it is pretty much obvious.

Stargrace over at MmoQuests has a pretty good summary about the whole ProSiebenSat.1 thing over here

For me it is enough to say goodbye to SOE after so many years of playing their games..

To me it is quite obvious SOE only cares about money and doesn't give a shit about their customers, so my wallet will speak for me and i will cancel any account i have with SOE.

The End.

Everquest 2: changing a class

I have been having a lot of fun in Everquest 2 lately and it wasn't with my main, Endellion.
The main problem i think i was having with playing my main was that i betrayed Freeport and kinda had to "re-learn" all skills at a higher level, i was so used to playing a necromancer and had learned using her skills from level 1, when i betrayed i was all of a sudden a conjurer with all new skills and although they are probably very much alike , i still had troubles getting into playing a conjurer.

I started playing a ranger (Cynfull) from the start, who is now lvl 18 and i am having a blast. I really think it helps a lot to learn playing your character from the start and understand all skills as i get them along the way, instead of getting skills at a higher level like i did when i betrayed with my main.

Of course this kind of talk isn't new, ever since people were able to buy max level characters in some mmo's, people have claimed you couldn't play a character well unless you levelled him/her up yourself.
To be honest i never really thought much about it, but right now in Everquest 2 i definatly feel that way and i didn't even get a max level character, i basicly just changed classes with my main and i still have problems getting into it and finding the right skills to use at the right time and as a result get my ass kicked a lot..
I have no doubt that if i really take some time for it i will be able to learn, but right now i am having a blast with my ranger and i will probably keep playing her and rather get the skills as i level up :)

Arrived at Qeynos

Finally made it to Qeynos with my main, after working on getting my -50000 faction with Qeynos up to a positive.
My Necromancer changed into a Conjuror, definatly gonna take some time to get used to my "new" skills, really need to set up my toolbars.. kind of annoying but should not be a huge problem :)

So far Qeynos feels a lot better than Freeport.
I am now on my way discovering The Thundering Steppes and Antonica.

Betraying Freeport

Keeping with my (unofficial) 2009 Gaming Resolutions, play more of the Station Access games, i went back to play Everquest 2.
And i have to say it's still a fun game to play.

But being on the Freeport side got boring to me and after getting a quest to go collect taxes in a certain village i thought, screw that and went to go do the betrayel quest. My main is currently an exile working her way into Quenos.

Before getting there i went through quite a few quests in the commenlands, which is also starting to bore me, but i did reach level 24 on my main Endellion (necromancer), leveled up 3 times in there.

I though after the betrayel quest i would be out of the commenlands, but nope, they send me right back to do more quests there to gain favor with Quenos :(

I also found out SOE had put their games on Steam, so i went to have a look and couldn't resist buying the Shadow Oddysee expansion.

I also bought Pirates of the Burning Sea, i did a lot of beta testing with this game but never played it after launch. I saw the game for 7.99 Euros on Steam, so figured what the heck, let's give it a go.
I definatly wanted to check that game out but it was very hard to find the game in stores, the only stores that had it were selling it for around 50 euros, which is a bit too much for my liking.

I always thought PotBS was a fun game, but more of an "on the side" game not as my main game, but for 7.99 euros and being part of Station Access, i couldn't resist :)

EverQuest 2

Logged into EverQuest 2 after not playing it for quite some time.
My main is still at level 20 and she is still in the Commenlands, took me some time getting used to things and finding my way around again.
But i did manage to finish a couple of quests and i am getting close to level 21.

Was actually planning on playing abit of Vanguard, but it seems the servers are down for "some love", figures..

Back for more

Now that i finally got my station access subscription running i can play EQ2 again :)
Been leveling and questing with my main, Endellion a necromancer, and worked her up to level 20.

Saying Goodbye to EQ2

Decided to end my subscription for EQ2 as i hardly played the last few months (too many other games i like, so it's goodbye (for now) to Everquest 2..

On the note of Everquest, while checking my subscriptions i saw i had a trial on Everquest until next year ????