After an initial spurt of enthusiasm and motivation on my return to PlanetSide (and finding a sensible outfit) it’s all come to an end.

I now have to admit that I generally don’t feel like playing often enough for to make me feel I get my moneys worth. Lately I’ve played a couple of hours once or twice in a week. And a lot of the time I’m only joining the game because I feel like I have to since I’m paying for the damned thing!

I suppose some of it is rooted in the fact that I never really got any good at playing the game. But then on flip side of that I think possibly I never really bothered to try to get good because I have trouble seeing the point of the game.

I initially rejoined the game to try out the BFRs (and the Core extension I suppose. Didn’t bother to buy it first time ’round). And once I got that and tried them out my main motivation for the game was fading. But in the mean time I DID manage to find an outfit that worked a bit more like how I see the game so I did manage to pull some motivation out of that.

But the fact that the game is still as unorganized as it’s always been has a tendency to kill every effort of organized battles. And that in turn kills the game for me. A long time ago there was people suggesting better faction/battle management tools to better centralize control of battles. And it looks like people are still suggesting many of the same things today… And noting seems to be happening about it.

But then for me I’d still have trouble seeing ‘the point’ I guess. Cleaning a continent (or planet as they are called now) is great after a big and hard battle. But it don’t mean much since the two other fractions will soon take it from your side…. And ’round and ’round we go…

So now I suppose I could - once again - try to see if Face of Mankind can be any fun… Or perhaps I should just sit back and wait for a beta invite to Dungeons & Dragons Online and get some single player games (and coding) done in the mean time.