A couple months ago I became very bored with Everquest II – my desire was like a light bulb that just burned out. I found myself bored of all the questing to level up. Honestly, it reminded me a lot of how WoW does it…go kill 10 of creature x and come back. Then go kill another 10…it drained me.
I occupied my free time with some Starcraft – I became half-way decent. I was really enjoying my time away from MMOs; I think the break was exactly what I needed.
Eventually the MMO bug got me again. To change things up, this time I decide to reactivate EQ1…there is just something about that game that keeps bringing me back in. I think it is some combination of it being my first MMO, the hardest one I have played, and good game play. Despite how much I like EQ, Rawrzor didn’t feel quite the same way. It took some convincing for him to reactivate – I had to level a Druid to 70 for him. All of the EQjunkies kick in and we got him a 70 Druid, Lulz, in a week’s time.
We spent a month or so exploring SoF and some of the other zones we missed while we were gone. I then started to do the SoD progression stuff, which is coming a long…but taking some time.
I also got the linux bug again…I installed Ubuntu 9.04 and began to play EQ in Linux (using wine). It was really easy to setup, the wine HQ page for EQ gave me all the info I needed. I also moved away from Ventrilo and started to use mumble because it works across all platforms…something that Ventrilo can’t claim. The sound quality is good and also the push to talk actually works in linux. The only disadvantage linux has to windows is that 4 boxing on an old P4 isn’t as smooth in Linux, but that should be expected…EQ wasn’t developed for Linux.
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