Jamion

Well Dell finally called me and said they were coming to fix my computer... hrm I wonder if it will really happen.

Need to reinstall games, I should start with Guild Wars. Compared to most other games I have Guild Wars is relatively small and easy to install. After that I should install Star Trek Online, there have been a lot of updates while I have been without a computer and I really want to get through them all. After that Star Craft 2. Blizzard saves progress through Battle.net I believe so I should be able to get back in and pick up where I left off. However, Blizzards DL and Installer suck, so bit of a headache there. May not do that tonight, but wait till tomorrow to install it. At this point I have no real desire to install anything besides those three games. I have a digital copy of Civ5, and although I bought it through Direct2Drive the DL itself was applied through Steam. Steam is evil, very very evil, and hogs a bunch of system resources. So will not re-DL Civ5 at this point.

With APB relaunching I will prepare my computer for APB: Reloaded. I betaed APB. APB was a great game except for one massive critical flaw. Rage. The game was 95% PVP, while PVP is fine the games pace made it so you PVPed, then were thrown into more PVP, and even more PVP. It did it in such a way that it slowly hyped up your adrenaline until you literally felt enraged. I would have to walk away from the game at times just to get away from that focus. If a PVE element was added in combination to the PVP, and maybe more diverse areas of play. I think APB would be a great game. Amazing customization and player built content, the last 5% of the game play I consider to be sandbox creativity. I loved this about APB. I refused to play it after launch, but if it goes F2P as they planned I will reDL it and play.

Looking forward to TOR and GW2. Hope I can play them soon. This whole event as made me rethink buying a new computer. If they actually come and fix it. Next computer I get I am leaning towards an Origin PC system. Made and supported in the US according to their site. They are an off shoot of old Alienware employees that didn't like the Dell take over. I priced a good system for around $5000. Nice specs and processor. But I don't have 5k to blow on a computer. Plan B, start saving $100-200 a month. That way when I end up buying a new computer, hopefully in a year, I have a nice down payment on the system. The rest then should take me to long to pay off by that point. I could technically afford a computer right, but it would be tight.

Just got the call while I was typing this that repair guy is at my house working on my computer. So here is to hoping that I will have a working comp by the time I get home from work. In any case, my being pissed is starting to fade. Still mad as hell at Dell though. Damn that rhymed.