Well SOE is giving away 1.5 months of play time on EQ. All accounts have been reactivated, that are in good standings. It is a good thing mine is in good standings.

So I downloaded the patcher and installed the game last night. It is weird going back to a game after not playing it for some time. But I’m going to give it a shot until July 25th, that is when the promotion ends.

So I logged in and got to work. I headed over to PoI to test my skills out as a ranger and to see if I still had what it took. At lvl 71, the mobs in PoI don’t give you much XP, if any at all. It is a Planes of Power zone though, so they are still tough. I figured that I could just solo some mobs, and I was right.

After almost dieing, due to an add, I started chatting in the general chat. Someone needed a war in Nadox. I decided that I would take my warrior down there and group some. I got down there and I didn’t really have anything set up. So it took me some time to get a few hot keys ready to go. Then I was off pulling. the group went good, but I needed to get to bed.

Now, I don’t know if I’m going to pay to play or not. I have really not considered going back and playing EQ again. Further more I swore that SOE would not get any more of my money. If I look at the reason for that, it really was my fault for not making sure that the account was canceled like I thought that I had done. They wouldn’t refund $30 to me, so I was pissed at them.

At any rate, I have thought about it. They are giving me almost 2 months to think about it, so I feel that I should take them up on their offer. There really is nothing like the interface of EQ. No game system to date has matched the functionality of it, not even EQ2.