ScuzzBlog: Diaries January 2025 Entry 11th January 2025: Post 1: Online Gaming Debris. Online Gaming Debris. I started playing online games about eighteen years ago and I must have clocked up an unhealthy amount of hours during that time. The thing about online games is that you need an online server to make it work. Obvious I know, but with that reliance comes a certain amount of risk. Before I get into that here is a potted history of my time online. My online gaming started with Guildwars and Nightfall which I enjoyed very much. So much so I purchased Guildwars II including the special headset and mouse. I was quite enthusiastic. I had purchased World of Warcraft at about the same time but did not load the game up until 2008. I needed to upgrade a computer first. Whilst TBC had been released I did complete Classic or Vanilla a number of times before purchasing TBC. I have since that date purchased all expansions and had an active subscription since 2008. I am currently playing The War Within. I then tried Star Trek and Star Wars which were both dreadful and recently had a notification regarding the Star Wars account that if I didn't login they would delete the account. Star Trek was so bad I dumped that shortly after release. Rift was my next heavy game and for over a year I played it to death. I loved the game, but sadly the later expansions were dull. Next up I launched into Tera and played the game up to the point of it being taken offline a couple of years ago. To say I loved this game is an understatement. I sank way too many hours of my life playing Tera. Archeage was the next game to absorb all my time and this game was more of a way of life. At one stage I had two accounts and managed some very large farms. It really was like working in a game. I did love it though and the scenery was so tranquil and relaxing. The game was taken offline last year and I had an active account up to its demise. I fiddled with Blade and Soul an Black Desert along with Eve and one or two others but nothing serious. League of Legends has been pretty dominant this last five years as love the whole world of LOL from the Worlds and splits and esports. The characters and music are quite magical. Final Fantasy Online has been a real disappointment in truth and has never achieved the same quality as the console games. I have had several serious goes at making it work but its a bit dull. Sadly the latest expansion by Blizzard has turned out to be the worst so far and that is on the back of a few stinkers. I have been playing more Vindictus in truth which is a really old game. That is why I gave Eve a go again. But that ended today cus I got so bored. Anyhoo to the comment ... Online games debris. Like I say to play an online game you need an active account and a game server. By nature these games tend to make money out of your time playing. They anticipate that you will invest a lot of time with them. It is very easy to get hooked on these games and that can be most counter productive. The time they absorb prevents you from doing other things. They are not casual and can be dangerously addictive. I have forced myself to take breaks at times. Difficult though if you start to get dragged into group play and long dungeon runs. The most tragic part of all this is that none of the things you accumulate in game are really yours. They are only valid while the account is running. Consequently all my stuff that I worked very hard to acquire in game become inaccessible when the your game time ends. Worse is when they cancel the game. Then you lose everything. I have so much game debris littering various servers I wish that I could retrieve the pixels so I can view them offline. Sadly the only thing you can salvage is screenshots and online video. Sadly online games are just that, and having spent a good part of my life playing them it is a sadness that in the end you own nothing. Games no longer are issued on discs, they are all downloaded, so you don't even have a CD/DVD to play with. Not that they are any use without the game server. The moral is that if you want access to a game that will always be available then best play a game you have fully paid for and needs no form of login. I prefer online games cus I enjoy the life they have and how nothing is quite ever the same from one session to another. But, I do wish I could frequent my farms in Archeage again or use my Dimension in Rift or sit around the camp fire at my Garrison on my own private computer. I do sense that all entertainment will eventually be streamed so the days of discs are probably numbered anyway. I have loved my years online gaming. I just wish they could make a decent game. In truth good online games are in short supply. And no, ' you can't has my stuff '. Online Gaming Debris.

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