Warhammer and Moving On
The Warhammer MMO is coming out in a week or so. I definitely will not be buying it on release, but I will be reading the reviews. I’m particularly looking forward to seeing what Tobold has to say about it since he seems to write from a largely PvE perspective. If Warhammer makes PvP fun for him, it’ll definitely be worth checking out. In the meantime, Massively has put out a A World of Warcraft player’s guide to Warhammer Online. It makes Warhammer sound interesting, but again I’m withholding judgement.
I will be looking for a new game a few months after Wrath comes out. Blizzard may do something amazing and revitalize WoW enough that I’m happy playing it until the next expansion. However, I feel that I’ve pretty much tried everything in WoW at this point - leveling, exploration, different classes, battlegrounds, professions, healing, DPS, tanking, raid leading, guild leading. The biggest exception is that I haven’t even set foot in Arenas on any of my toons. There just isn’t much appeal to getting slaughtered and my reflexes aren’t good enough to do more.
I’ve considered a number of MMOs and I expect that I will try a lot of them. Eve Online’s economy might be fun to play with, but the idea of PvP with significant losses is a turnoff. EverQuest 2 is supposed to have a vast world to explore, but I suspect the graphics may fall into the uncanny valley for me. Lord of the Rings Online’s lack of customization and graphics that fall into the uncanny valley drive me nuts. Warhammer is shiny and new, but if it’s mostly PvP I doubt I’d be interested. Freerealms isn’t out yet, so who knows if it’ll actually be fun. Ah well, there are always possibilities and maybe by the time I’m done with WoW I’ll find something to suit my tastes.