so what happened?

with AoC?

i realize that i sort of just abandoned that... hehe. well to make a long story short, i got started in the game later than my friends, had hardware issues playing, and ended up being so far behind that i could never join in with friends to play. the graphics problems were awful as was the lag.

i primarily played a ranger... i would hit the combo button and the key presses would show up on the screen, so i would hit the number keys corresponding to the combo keys, and nothing would happen... it just lagged so much, i rarely got the combos off cuz it didn't seem to recognize my key pressing.

it would say up arrow and i would press the #2 key and it would do nothing, so i would spam the #2 key till finally it registered and then the diagonal right arrow showed up on screen. then the combo would time out before the game registered that i was spamming the #3 key...

bah.

i give AoC this much, it was a very pretty game, especially on other ppl's computers. i'm running shite for gaming rigs and i just don't have the cash to upgrade to the point of making AoC playable. that and my friends all quit playing anyways. no point in playing if i have no friends online either.

most just quit mmo's period. they're playing civ and spore and stuff like that. one friend went to LotR and is now in the WAR beta. i went back to wow and my skywall guild.

a coworker asked me if i was going into WAR... i said nah, no point. it just doesn't seem to interest me. i was thinking a bit about LotR... but honestly, if my shite rigs can barely run AoC, can they honestly do any good for LotR? i think i'm stuck on wow for now... as its graphics requirements aren't that harsh. ^_^