022 Good Causes, Games and POO

[autumnmuse]

As I predicted … I am just not feeling this World of Warcraft expansion after all the fail early on. It just really left a bad taste in my mouth and I haven’t played it in over a week. I just don’t have this burning desire to get on and play.

I’m actually thinking of giving SIMS 4 another chance. I guess they added a patch that added pools lol (or are going to add pools in an upcoming patch). Still don’t understand how they released a new game and reduced the options in the game of typical first expansions lol. I do enjoy the new way of building homes, which is one of my favorite things to do in SIMS (sad I know). I rarely get families past two generations because I like building homes too much. I can spend days on one.

In other news, one of my favorite organizations that I donate money to, sent me a really pretty hanging calendar for next year, which was actually a great reminder for me to make my yearly donation to them. I really love nature, so I try to donate to Plant a Billion Trees around Christmas (as well as the Red Cross). It's never a lot, but I figure every little counts.  This year I'll be adding a donation to the American Cancer Society in honor of my dad.

And lastly ... I have this idea floating around in my head for a new book,  and I'm itching to get started on it, but I haven't had the time to really sit down and write it. Maybe after classes are all done and things settle a little at work, I can start it. Oh and either Saturday or Sunday I have to go to the stupid museum and then write a report on my visit. *Headdesk* May take pictures, but not sure yet.

OH, and I think Ill be getting some paid time on here ... so look out for some really dumb polls and a pretty kickass (or not) moodtheme! :D
 

 

Comments

[blm]

I am right there with you on Warlords. With MoP I wasn't too excited, but I still felt motivated to get to 90 and start grinding for my heroic gear and LFR gear and of course CRUSHING PUNY ALLIANCE. *cough* sorry, Horde blood runs deep here.

but yeah I have zero motivation to continue leveling. While working with the Frostwolves is pretty cool, I just don't care to see the end of the story. Again I feel it may be because in High School I used to play warcraft 2 and gush over how cool Kargath must be, and I really don't want to kill him in Warlords.

Also the Garrison, it feels like such a chore for some reason. Housing in FF14 is just a side thing, lots of fun but no real impact on game play. Garrison on WOW i have to actively do all these things just to level my tailoring? ugh.. I don't like it. :l

[autumnmuse]

Exactly! I actually had a lot of fun in Pandaria. I don't know why but maybe because I enjoyed the pandas and their lore (most didn't though, that I know haha).

I was actually horde for 3 years before recently going alliance (in August). Bad guild experience made me want to change. So I was really into horde for a long time ... but this expansion seems really heavy on alliance. The race perks on alliance toons are all way better than the horde ones.

I really enjoyed the garrison at first because it was so easy to farm things (ore in my case), but you're right ... it was becoming a chore and not as much fun. My secondary profession (engineering) is going to take ages to level because a lot of the stuff I can make to level it requires materials on a 1 day cool down ... so it's kind of ridiculous to me. Usually I could just blow through, hit 700 then farm the recipes I needed and make the stuff I wanted that had the 1 day cool down. So yeah, I dunno ...

And it's just all so 'meh' now that I've seen how badly they treat their customers. People say that all expansion launches are bad, but I got Pandaria and played the night of launch and had no major problems with playing. Yeah there was some lag and a short queue but that's expected ... the nightmare this year just really ruined this expansion's experience for me.

[blm]

During the development of this whole expansion they were pretty nasty to their customers as well. When they announced that they where not going to do capital cities in the spots the originally said, but rather do cities in the PVP zone Ashran the community was pretty upset. People posted about not wanting to be in the PVP zone (I play on a PVE server for a reason etc.) and that the Ashran hubs looked just like Garrisons. Blizzard said it was for "lore and story reasons" then later admitted it was due to not having enough time to complete the cities for the expansions release. One of the devs, I forget who posted some gif that was making fun of people upset over it.

Then you have all the flying/no flying stuff and how they constantly flipped flopped on that.

I don't know, a lot of their talent has left over the years and I think it's just really starting to show in WoD.

[aeris]

SIMS is the SHIT. I can spend all day on that game. <3

[autumnmuse]

Yeah, I really enjoy the SIMS too lol. I actually played a bit last night, and decided to Install SIMS3 on my Mac for our week long trip in two weeks lol. Give me something to play. :D