You have been selected to test...

It seems to SWTOR powers that be are getting ready to do some stress testing because a lot of people have been getting the you're in the beta test emails. So much so that their site is down.

SWTOR.com is temporarily unavailable as we are experiencing extremely high traffic. Please check back again soon!


Now if this was the first test they failed, lol. You would think being able to keep your own page up would be one of the first things to do, but they're new. Blizzards page used to crash all the time when they were down while people were checking realm status so nothing to see here please move along.I am kind of getting excited though. I'll have my own spaceship!!

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So they gave me a free week of WOW and...

The most interesting change I can tell is that you can rearrange the orders your characters are in on the login screen. People have been asking for that for years so at least somebody was listening, lol. I still had no ambition to do anything quest related. I did get to talk to some of my friends which was great (Hi Swan, Grimm, Dedi, Pintail, Drusky, Lafrentz and everybody else). I think part of the problem for me is the underwater zone. I logged unto my Shaman there and I just logged right out I didn't want anything to do with that zone. I also didn't want to queue up for anything although I thought I might hit the headless horseman for old times sake. I have a few days left so I'm sure I will get back in at least once more for old times sake and to see if some of the other peeps are logged on so I can say hey. Typeatyalater

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I Am Informative....

So, I was looking at my stats since blogger started its own built-in option and found out my most popular post ever is..... The Argent Quartermasters Location with 897 views in a little over a year. While I am glad I am a good mapquest for the folks out there what I am really glad to note is the second most viewed post, it is my 200th post which was an excellent guest post from one of my favorite bloggers and friend Grimmtooth. Who continues to be a much more prolific blogger than myself and churns out entertaining info on a regular basis. A fun look back
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Fun Stuff on the Internet

This is the first thing since I quit WOW that's made me think about going back, 2 Hobbits fighting over WOW.

Miss Me?

How is the blogosphere? It has been a long time since I've posted anything. I have been spending most of my time looking for a house to buy and concentrating on my large music library. I have a passion for music and as I was converting all my music to a digital format it took up a lot of my free time. I still haven't been gaming, but I did see the release date on SWTOR is in Dec. I have been wanting to play it for a long time but its been so long to get here I don't know if I still want to jump into that kind of game again. Its still gonna have some grind to slog through and you'll have to deal with the lowest common denominator to get anything done. I have begun to question whether I am interested in getting into another subscription MMO where I will feel compelled to play because I am paying $15/mo to play. Well just thought I would pop in and say Hi! As always keep having fun out there
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Nothing much to report

I have spent very little time gaming the last few weeks. I ran a 5k last week and did some training for that. Work has been extra crazy so that hasn't made it easy. I have also started the process of looking to buy a house so I spend quite a bit of time looking at houses and calculating my finances. So when I get some time I will get some gaming on and get back to blogging but when that is? No Idea, so have some fun out there for me.

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So Free2Play WOW, things must be rough at Activision

I just read this article 'World of Warcraft' ... your first hit is now free over at MSNBC. I know WOW has been bleeding subscribers left and right but this seems like a drastic move unless they are planning on announcing their new MMO this year. The first 20 levels free is quite a ploy. I am curious what other limits they are going to impose on the F2P players. It is amazing though, I bet it will get those subscriber numbers up pretty quick because a lot of people will play just because its free. I mean WOW is probably the most polished and accessible MMO out so getting people in the door is really the key. I started on the trial way back when and got hooked in for years, if this lets people do low level pvp and and mail stuff and join guilds they may be on to something if it is limited like their trial membership then I don't think it will make much of a difference in the long run. Its not enough to get me to sub back in but I was just given 7 free days so who knows stranger things have happened.

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