Mood:  a-ok

     Recently, actually Saturday night to be specific, I ordered some pizzas from Pizza Hut, although not the Big Dipper they are currently trying to push.  Seems to me it just an overpice gimmick, and since that is what I believe it to be, I passed on it for a couple of large pies with pan crust, which I usually don't get when it's just myself either.  I pretty much am a thin crust, light on the cheese kinda guy most of the time.  Well, it depends reall, but now days with the diet in full force, it's better to have less calories on my pizza. Granted that's not what happened Saturday night, but I digress.

      Anyway, the folks over at the Slashfood blog jumped in and reviewed this thing, saving me time and money so if you are interested in what they think about it, head over and have a look.  As for me, I find it hard to believe pizza hut would roll out a new crust for this thing, so I'm sticking with the slightly different form, higher price, not worth it theory.  Your mileage may vary of course, and I may very well try it down the road if I get the idea that it may be different.  Anyway.

Check out the review.

Posted by the Captain at 2:13 PM CST

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Mood:  blue

     Or at least it should come as no surprise that another struggling "AAA" monthly subscription MMORPG is working on moving to a free to play model, especially after the success that titles like Dungeons & Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online, and to a lesser extend Everquest 2, have seen to the bottom line.  The people at Cryptic had to see all this transpire and know that was pretty much the only path to trying to bring in a respectable amount of subscribers to their much maligned, but actually quite fun superhero themed game.

     I'm not going to pretend to be impartial here on this one.  I'm a lifetime subscriber and have been playing the game since beta.  I have and do love the game, played the pen and paper RPG prior to that way back in the day, and have a strong affinity for the licence in general.  Having achieved full disclosure regarding that, I find the move to a free to play model unfortunate, but I understand as well that games must make money and that in terms of viability over the long haul, this was probably the only decision that could be made.  

     I still think it is ridiculous for companies to have a cash store to sell things to subscribers that are already paying a monthly subscription, but that seems to be the wave of the future.  It is disturbing though that companies seem to think it is ok to screw over their paying customers, and make no mistake, that is exactly what is going on, no matter what the apologists would like you to believe.  But I digress.

 Here's the link to more information on the plans for the change over, should it be of interest to you.  If you haven't tried the game out, it's certainly worth a download for free. 

Posted by the Captain at 11:14 AM CDT

Updated: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:16 AM CDT

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Mood:  blue

     Irony is a thing that has been fuller in effect in my life this year than in previous, do to more real life situations than I care to remember currently. Nothing really can be done about that.  An interesting, so not that interesting depending on your point of view, side effect of all of this chaos is that for quite some time my gaming pretty much ground to a complete halt, for no better reason than I just didn't feel like playing.  Too much turmoil can have that affect, I'm afraid.  Doesn't matter anymore though.

      At this point though, with more time on my hands, I've noticed that lots of things have changed, especially in the course of MMORPGs that I used to play periodically and I don't really know which ones I feel like revisiting.  So far, I've stopped in on Lord of the Rings Online, Guild Wars, Champions Online, Everquest 2, Age of Conan, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and various and sundry others for brief stints or betas.  That's been the way of things so far.

      All have their benefits and drawbacks, charms and frustrations so the choice isn't as straight forward as it might seem.  Many I've played off and on since launch, going for long stretches without logging in, then putting in hours upon hours for long stretches.  I'm leaning towards Guild Wars, just because the sequel isn't that far away, and I believe I have all of the expansions to it, which I've only recently even bothered to look at.  Maybe with the exception of Factions.  Don't remember if I have that one or not.  Probably old age sneaking up on me, or at least it's been so long since I purchased it that I just flat out can't remember if I'm thinking about Factions or Nightfall again.  Either way, it isn't on my account currently.

      Then again, I have probably six months worth of Age of Conan game time cards laying around the house.  And I do enjoy the game, especially not that they've actually polished it up a bit and made it playable.  True is after so long in beta, I was surprised the launch of the retail game wasn't an even bigger disaster than it way.  God knows there weren't many beta testers that thought it was ready, and most believed it was going to need a year or more time in development before launch.  Granted, they launched it anyway, and it was a disaster, but if you had seen the last beta version of the game, you'd know it could have been much, much worse.

       So, I don't know, guess I'll play some Guild Wars, maybe try out the fall festival in Lord of the Rings Online again, save the day for a bit in Champions Online, maybe I will just dibble and dabble a bit in each one until I get too bored to even speak.  I don't know.  I do know I'll be around a bit here and there.  Maybe I'll try out the Free to Play mode of Pirates of the Burning Sea when it finally goes live.  Been a while since I've been there.

Posted by the Captain at 10:46 AM CDT

Updated: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 10:52 AM CDT

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