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Told you so

Ok.

So I never wrote that piece comparing two MMOs to each other. Truth be told, I had a hard time gathering any kind of real enthusiasm towards either of them and both of the trials ran out.

One was a massive space odyssey  taking place in a bleak distant future where the human race has long ago broken it’s bonds to our home planet and has spread out across the universe only to find itself  waging war against no other than itself – again. The other a massively popular magical land of green orcs and mighty men and the whole cast of other utterly cliché fantasy creatures from anywhere in between. I’m talking of course about Eve Online and WoW.

From the few hours of actual gameplay I got out of Eve and  the measly half-an-hourish I spent with WoW, I left feeling mostly bored and thinking: “What’s the point?”.

But then again, who am I to judge.

Maybe later on I’ll return to these mammoths, and find out what all the buzz and excitement is about but at the moment I think I’ll save my energy for more important things. Like applying for school, finding a civil service place.. and owning your asses on Gears of War 2.

Half done

So, it seems that almost everyone in my family has started blogging. My dad, my sister, my girlfriend, hell, if our cats could write, they’d probably have a profile on livejournal by now. As far as I know, the only ones not blogging are me and my mom, and even that’s history after submitting this post.

The hardest thing for me in blogging, and in many other areas of my life, is finishing. My life is often a sum of half-done, half-complete or almost-started-to-do-that events and projects. I can’t even recount how many times I’ve pledged to Lauri that I’d gather myself to write this blog post, re-design the pixeli.net layout or make my own. My drawings hardly ever see a final, polished version, the t-shirt design I was working on a while back is still on hold, although I’m committed do finishing it one day Zeus damnit! 

But that’s just how it seems to me. Not necessarily how things are. I ‘m not all half-assed.

After all, I did finish school, I did gather the courage to apply for a job – one that I still hold, I ‘m currently in the process of applying for a civil service job and I’m still in a very healthy happy relationship that I believe will stay that way for years to come. Oh and I moved twice during one year (Helsinki and back again :)

So, perhaps my problem in the end isn’t finishing things but instead getting started (as this post clearly demonstrates). 

So my next goal – and with all probability the next unfinished project – will be to make a small comparison between how two very big an popular MMOs take a very different approach to introducing their new users to the service. I’ve already wasted a ton of my trial days not doing anything on both games, but I’ll try to make an effort and plunge deeper into the bowels of these beasts over the week. 

I’m hoping to get the first piece up by the end of the week but don’t hold your breaths.