It took me some time at first I would only play on the Tuesday night, I had other games and they would occupy my time. Then at some point it changed, I could see how it worked. I think it was the auction house. I started to play more, soon I had a DDO alt and I was catching Winter’s and Bunnyman’s alts. Next thing, my alt was my main, I was playing when the boys weren’t on and I was starting to spend dollars on buying new maps and campaigns. Winter and Rabs (aka rabbit aka bunnyman) were playing yet another set of alts with me and all was good.

I think that was when Winter burnt out. He was on less and less, then not long after Rabs went as well, then it was me.

The problem with DDO isn’t the game, the game is good. The problem is the people, or lack of them. It’s a game that relies on groups to see most of the content, and with the chances of getting a group being limited the appeal of the game become limited. This has happened with a lot of the MMOs that I’ve played, Age of Conan, Warhammer Age of Reckoning, Dark Age of Camelot.

All games that I really enjoyed, some of them were really well designed innovative games. Just without enough people to make the game fun. They all ended up feeling lifeless. So my MMO craving unfulfilled I kept looking. At the same time as this happened I got an email from blizzard saying something about my account details, considering I hadn’t logged into wow for over 18 months my curiosity was piqued.

After some hooing and harring I found that I had reclaimed my account, and then I thought well since I’ve come this far I might as well scratch that MMO itch. As I started I asked myself if I really wanted to do this again, but I took a deep breath and logged in. I found myself in an unfamiliar city (Dalaran) nowhere near where I left. So there were now two expansions worth of content for me to see.

Wrath of the Latch king flew by pretty fast but I seem to get some good experiences out of it, a lot of people were running alts through the content. All up that was good fun. The dungeon finder seemed to work well as it didn’t take me long to get a group.

The one problem with being the new kid on the block was that the dungeons seemed to fly by so fast that I didn’t really get a chance to appreciate them. Once I finished most of the quests in WotLK I moved on to Cataclysm. So far it’s only been questing so I’ll have to give it a little time before I can give a full comment.

So where does this leave me, at time of posting I haven’t played for a week which is interesting. I remember logging off 7 days ago (it was bed time on a "school night"....I try to be strict on myself) really wanting to play again. What with going away for a the weekend, writing a public service job application and a visit down to Canberra over the weekend I haven’t felt the need to get online so far this week.

Perhaps I’m a little saddle sore already?