I was going to wait until the next update hit Test to give them one last chance, but what the heck.
Same here.
Game's been boring for a month. I've played 3 characters up to level 25-ish and there was simply nothing I felt like doing after I finished their armor quests. Like Kosmos said, it's all the same enemies with new bodies. Add to that, I play in the middle of the night and could never find a group with ANY of my characters. The other night owls on Nektulos seem to have vanished. I got bored with soloing with no clear short-term objectives, and nothing new and interesting to do or see, so I rolled up a few alts. After two characters growing up in each city, that got old too. Got to the point where modding was more fun than playing. Maybe it always was for me.
Last straw was when they broke the recenter camera key in third-person with Update 6. /bug'd it on Test and posted on forums. Went live anyway. I was annoyed in the game by the camera about 60 times an hour (yes, I used it once a minute on average). Thread started. Blackguard said they'd fix it in 7. 7 comes around and it's not, instead they post that it was fixed in first-person, when it was never broken in the first place. Test feedback post and /bug. Again, it goes live. Another thread is started, and Moorgard comes in and says it's not a bug.
A-choo! Sorry, but I'm allergic to bull****. I'll take my $15 a month and buy two Dragonlance/Forgotten Realms books (which I'll finish in 5 days at most) and get more entertainment out of it. Book authors don't come to your house and make turning the page harder.
Add in the fact that they just busted a bunch of the DynamicData tags and never enabled the Groupmember ones... yeah, not getting much satisfaction out of UI modding anymore either. I can't even bring myself to finish up and release the rest of the MookUI windows.
Thus ends the relationship between me and EQ2. There's 2 last PC games I'm waiting for (Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, and Boundless Adventures), but I think I'm switching back to consoles for good now.
So, what's that mean for me here? Well, on May 3rd when my account runs out, I'll be setting all my mods to allow patch/addon submissions, and release the tradeskill reactions window whether I get the Woodworking skills or not.
I'll still hang around doing my moderator duties (until Dolby gets sick of my bound-to-be-increasingly grumpy attitude and unmods me) and giving advice (hurray, I'm a consultant!), but no more mods, updates to my mods, fix testing, or helpful discoveries out of me.
Anyway, enough out of me. Dynasty Warriors 5 and the last half of
Chaos and Amber are calling again. Sorry to hijack your thread, Kosmos.
See you all on the other side, wherever that may be.
-Deathbane27