Where Is Boat

I haven't quit WAR, but I have quit playing it.

Lately I've just really been in the mood for X-COM : Apocalypse, so that's what I've been doing.

There have been a flurry of bloggers quitting lately. That's my understanding, anyway. The first victim claimed in my not-playing-WAR to playing-WAR transition has been my WAR blog reading. Most nights I don't have more that two free hours and I never have more than three, so spending an hour going through blogs every night seems a little ... opulent.

Anyway, I guess I should talk about WAR ...

WAR Auction House == WoW Auction House == PAIN

For every five to ten hours I play the game, it seems like I have to spend an hour at the auction house unloading items. This is pretty similar to WoW, actually. I wish there was an easier way, doing this stuff kills me.

There Are A Lot Of Crafting Mats

The abundance of crafting mats is also a little bothersome. Perhaps I'll devote an entire post to MMORPG crafting at some point, but in the meantime I'll say that I do not dig all the inventory management required for crafting. Especially in WAR where not only will I have like 20 stacks of different kinds of crafting-level-50 apoth ingredients, I'll even have separate stacks of equal-quality, equal-level fixers that literally do the same thing.

PvP Seems Pointless

Once again I'm low in tier (now tier 3) and I don't see much point to PvP as I'm just not that effective.

How Do I Level Up Then?

I don't know. Leveling up with PvE is so bloody slow. Honestly, just as much as X-COM: Apocalypse being awesome, this is why I've quit playing for the moment.

How Long Until I Quit Quitting?

The reason I don't think I'll quit WAR is that I can't think of anything about it that really, really bugs me. I think it will take me another week or two to work the X-COM bug out of my system, then I'll be back, causing trouble and taking names.