WSAD

After a year in entropia it was time to find something new. I had some great times with the JSA crew hunting, hosting events, and just basically doing what friends do, having a good time. I was still playing COD4 with the DaDs Army and TF2 and Battle for middle earth with Rob And War$ 3 nights a week as well.
War$ and I had been playing online together for about 6 years now, its funny one of my closest friends is a person I have never met in person, but we both know more about each other than most people do about their neighbor they see everyday.
The relationships with my friends in JSA, specifically Star are similar. When you spend 3 or 4 hours at a time playing you tend to get to know a person. This is just another amazing aspect of online gaming.
WarS and I got wind of 2 new MMO's that were coming out in the spring/summer of 08, Warhammer online and Age of Conan. After a week or two of research it looked like Conan was the one to look out for. We both were getting tired of the shooter world for a bit, I think War$ was into Starwars galaxies at the time but I didn't try it out.
I started looking a free MMO's, after sorting through about 30 of them I decided to try Rappelez. It was an Korean port fantasy mmo and it was pretty fun. My friends from JAS hoped on board and we dove into Rappelz head first. For the next 4 months or so we had a blast, of course it wasnt free. Like many others it had an item shop so there was money to be spent, and it slowly became clear that like Entropia this was a money sink as well, but not as much or as often.
I decided to try out a pay to play MMO before Age of Conan came out, luckily Lord of the rings was offering a free trial.
I have been a fan of Tolkien for about 30 years now, LOTR looked good, it was ok to play but just didn't feel right to me. Ther was an almost too scripted feel to it, and seemed limiting on where you could go as well. I hear now it is dooning quite well and has many thing for the community to enjoy. I dumped it after a week, but I may go back to check it out some day.
By February of 2008 I hardly played Entropia at all and Rappelz and COD4 were the games I played the most, it was time to streamline my play list further and find something new.