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Never say never, but I doubt I'll ever replay WoW. Did it after Pandaria was out and while questing was fun, it was also very easy. I reached level 90 in no time, but as I only finished half the zones I continued questing. But after that it was basically the same daily quests/dungeons/rep grind to gear up, even the farm you had was basically just a set of daily quests to do. Thunder Isle (or whatever the name is exactly) was fun (& hard) at first, but it too became a grind eventually. And once I got the gear it meant I had to start raiding to improve my gear.

To me it just felt exactly like before (there is a lot more to do, but it's basically the same formula). Every MMO suffers from this tbh, end game content expanding, but becoming more of the same eventually. I've had a lot of fun in WoW over the 7 years or so I played, but I just lost interest in it.

Anyone else got Dragon Age Inquisition yet? I only just got past the tutorial after way too much time spent in the character generator . I kept rerolling because eventually something  always irked me about the way they looked during cutscenes. After many (many, many, many, ...) hours I finally managed to create a character (female dwarf DW rogue) I'm really happy with (lip color is slightly off due to the strange lighting in the character generator, but it's not bad enough to reroll). The character creation tool is really great and produces some diverse characters (can be seen on the Bioware forums), though the hair options are limited and facial hair looks rather weird.

The game itself looks good so far, but as I said I only just got past the tutorial .

Yeah, I had a look at it after the announcement. It does indeed look interesting, but beta is announced for 2015 so it could be a long way off.

PS: Come play PS2 while waiting for Overwatch .

I bought it this weekend after Las talked me into it (not really, didn't realize there was so much to do in beta already) and the mouse/keyboard controls are indeed sucky. Been playing with my PS3 controller which is okay for normal flying, but is horrible in combat. So I ordered a cheap(ish) joystick since I will try out Star Citizen sometime too. And I might replay Freespace 1, its expansion and Freespace 2 again with Freespace Open (Volition gave away the source code to the engine and it's made to run at high resolutions on modern hardware). You do need the Freespace 2 installer, but it can be bought from GoG for cheap.

Only played a few hours and only in solo mode for now, but the game looks stunning. Tried some of the tutorials, but while they tell you what to do, they don't really tell you how to do it, so I was constantly looking at the controls on how to do some things they tell you to (been a long while since I had to do that ). Still no clue on how I have to do the combat tutorial vs the 3 normal ships and 1 hard ship (supposed to use silent mode, but my ship overheats stupidly quick and then I get shot down) .

Decided to just jump into the game and did some cargo/courier missions which earned me enough money for a new ship: an Eagle. It looks cool, but hardly has any cargo space which is why I decided to get into a conflict zone with disastrous effects. Luckily I had enough money to afford the insurance and get my Eagle back.

Nope, since the server merge it's gotten worse . Login times are horrible and ping varies a lot tbh, it depends on the continent/population.

Driving like a crazy person I can do .

BTW the resources reform & Harassers only costing 150 nanites, means you can pull Harassers non-stop. So even when you flip one right at the start you can immediately pull another. Even Lightnings at 350 nanites can be pulled almost non-stop. I've abandoned some when pulling the wrong one (AP instead of SKyguard or vice versa) which is nice .

I used to play some of the later Wing Commander/Privateer games and also Elite (on my Atari ST no less). Used to love space sims, Freespace 2 is still my favorite, but seems like there are hardly any made anymore and then suddenly there's Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous .

It looks like both games will become what I though Eve would be, an MMO Space Sim. You don't pilot your ship in first person in Eve which was a huge disappointment for me.

Ars Technica has a review of the current beta.

Nice Brigh . Actually you can stay in the MAX suit and hop in the back of my Harassar .