Well, I was sitting around thinking to myself “Gee, what are you going to do with your copious free time now that the current project at work is wrapping up?” when I suddenly learned that the new Diablo II Ladder season has started. So much for all that free time…
I had put D2 on the back burner for a while partly due to a lack of time and partly because, despite the efforts of the 1.10 patch, the ladder realm had become tainted by hacks and dupes, and after a while there was also the lingering threat of the end-of-season ladder reset. No point in starting a ladder character if the ladder season’s going to end in a month…
Hopefully the hacking won’t be as bad this time around since there’s no new patch to introduce more holes (though it did still occur in 1.10, it was at least greatly reduced), and maybe I’ll actually get around to finishing off the Hell difficulty and completing the world event this season. There are also 23 new runewords, increasing the odds I’ll actually be able to complete one. There’s also some contest going on, though it’ll almost certainly be won by some bot-assisted 24-hour-playing kiddie…
Oh, and this time around I can connect with both my PC and iBook at the same time. No, I’m not dextrous enough to play both at the same time, but it will allow me to transfer items to ‘mule’ characters safely instead of the risky drop-on-the-ground-and-quickly-switch-characters-and-rejoin-the-game method, and having a second player in the game increases the amount of xp you get and the quantity of loot dropped, even if the second isn’t doing anything.
Do I hear a dedicated server calling? Do you need a third? ;-)
I still play Diablo 2 every now and again, though never online due to the fact that mine is cracked. I haven’t the faintest clue where the CD is at, though I suppose I could check the CD tower. Anyway right now, I am highly addicted to City of Heroes. I need more time to play all the games I want…
It’s turned out that CoH has some longevity after all? A lot of people were expecting it to be just a minor diversion, but I still hear quite a bit about it.
And yeah, I’ve still got a ton of unfinished (even unstarted) games too. I really have to force myself to finish off some of the ‘linear’ ones before going back to the replayables like D2…