Been playing a lot of Warhammer Online lately. It's been a lot of fun for the most part. I joined a guild called "Draconum Knights" and the community is great and loads of fun but the responsiveness of the developer community has been far less than stellar and frankly is typical of what I expected from an EA product, crap. Mythic put together a potentially awesome game but it feels like EA put their foot down to make sure it turned into crap.

I played "Breetai" the witch hunter for the last month or so and got him to Rank 40 with 42 renown. Not fantastic but certainly quite respectable but this weekend we decided to move our guild to a new server. It's hard to let that character go but we have too. The Wolfenburg server is dy9ing a slow death Mythic is doing nothing about it and there's nothing we can do to stop it, so we better get off that sinking ship. Dealing with the other guilds on that server was more irritating than fun so that makes Open Realm vs Realm even tougher, it shouldn't be that way.

So far the Skull Throne server has been a blessing. Gotten to know some of the local guilds and they're not a bunch of Pre-Madonnas like we had on Wolfenburg. I've got a new toon, "Norburg" the Archmage whom I got to rank 12 this weekend. I'm trying to get my main Breetai transferred to Skull Throne but EA/Mythic are giving me the run around. Partly because I'm not on the list of "Approved" server transfers at the moment and want to do a paid transfer and I'm trying to find out if and when they'll be available the other part is the legendary support of EA never providing an honest answer.

EDIT: Update
Not a week after we leave wolfenburg and I get vocal about it in the Forums does mythic open up wolfenburg for transfers. Is mythic listening? I hope so, but I doubt it they're other issues with the game as well openly argued about on the warhammer alliance boards that make it pretty clear to me that the game developers Mythic are actually playing favorites with the side of destruction on most issues it's no wonder they drastically out number the order side. It's unfortunate, it'll shorten the lifespan of the game if they don't change that.

Family Loss

We lost my grandfather this week. Things were initially looking quite hopeful that he may make a recovery and add a few years of fun but it wasn't meant to be. The day before he died he was excited and happy about the fact that he was able to hop around on one leg in his walker without help. I guess my sister's experience in hospitals pretty much nailed it when she said before the surgery to remove the leg that his spirit and will power are there and strong but his body is shot and done.

Good bye Popa Ron

It's Voting Day!

Cross your fingers. With any any luck no incumbents will be reelected.

On either side.