So first off...HI, it’s been a LONG time since I wrote a blog here, I am hoping that I can find time to do it regularly. I recently had a major Life changer and, as a result, I theoretically have more time to dedicate to less urgent, more enjoyable things...theoretically.

In any event I wanted those of you who are still around to know that I am once again gaming regularly and have chosen EQOA to be my game of choice...again! For those of you keeping track it was EQOA that introduced me to "Gaming" in the first place! Sure I’d done my time on tabletop and pen and paper gaming, id slugged my way through the occasional MUD or dungeon crawl and back in the 80's I regularly blew my pocket change at the local arcade. It took EQOA for me to choose GAMING as a WAY OF LIFE and it’s too EQOA that I often find myself turning.

Now don't get me wrong, you can't go back, I know this. EQOA is not the game it was and I am not foolish enough to think it will ever be again. Gone are the graphics lags or Freeport and Highpass, gone are the spawn campers, the cries for LFG every thirty seconds, gone are the crowds (such as they were). However, the essence of the game is still there, the integral part of it that keeps it unique from all the other MMOs that have come since. I still find myself reading the quests not just clicking through as I often did playing WOW. The community I loved is still great, if diminished, as well. I can still port in to a coach and have a stranger give me a bow and a SOW to help me on my way!

I guess when you come right down to it, there’s still enough of the magic to keep me interested even after WOW and many other "bigger box" games have bored me to tears! So I’ve decided that I am back to stay, I rerolled Omniac on Castle Light Wolf (he's an elf wizard this time) and I’m going to try to grind my way to end game! Also I talked my wife Susan along for the ride, those who have been around for a while might remember that she was a pretty regular gamer back on DH. She rerolled Bettyjedder on CLW, a human warrior, and hit level four without boon her first night back, not bad for a noob huh?

So stay tuned here for more about an old gamer as he takes up the call of his old game, I’ll let you know how it’s going and we might have some fun along the way!