Introduction

I've been playing Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) since 1997. I've played Meridian-59 (just dabbled), Ultima Online, Everquest, Asheron's Call, Asheron's Call 2, Star Wars Galaxies, Everquest 2, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Rift, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV, and since March 2016, Black Desert Online.

No game does everything right though some have done more things right than wrong. Those sorts of games become winners and have staying power, unless the game is owned by Electronic Arts, who seems intent on killing and strangling any game that is not constantly growing.

Consequently, I've got a lot of MMOG experience along the way. I plan to write about games generally and whatever MMOGs I am playing currently here.

For a long time, I've collected various gaming thoughts on Tumblr, but that's not really an adequate platform for gathering such thoughts.

I am planning to rehost many of those entries here, just for completeness, but I think I'll be writing a lot more about games, rather than just in-character roleplay centered fiction based on those games.

Tumblr is completely adequate for collecting those sorts of stories but for more complex entries, discussing game mechanics, gameplay, and game features, a blog offers more formatting control than Tumblr does, at least for me.

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