Had a nice solid connection early in the morning and everything was working great. Went to take care of some chores and afterwards when logging back on (as more people logged on......? *burns CO tech support hat*) things steadily went downhill. The familiar red flashing bars were back on the top and bottom of the screen when logging a toon in or zoning, the lag spikes were back although they weren't as bad as they have been. And now Xev is stuck in MI and I can't get him out. I tried all the regular tricks and I keep getting booted out of the game with the texture file error whenever I try to load him. 2 steenking levels to go to 40 with him..
Personally I stay subbed mostly for access to freeform characters but also because the more money they're making off the game, the more incentive they have to continue supporting it.
If I'd been subbed for awhile and didn't wanna lose access to my FF's and I really liked CO enough.. I might be tempted to stay subbed - and more power to anyone with a sub. No offense meant, for sure.
They sure aren't going to attract many new subs the way things are lately, though. I wanted to save up for a LTS and now I start to wonder why I spend so much of my fun time being frustrated for 'free' (ok, I've bought zen..). I wanted to try STO and now I'm thinking I don't wanna go through the whole process of getting invested in another game by the same people just to find out it's unplayable. As far as that goes... I wanna play NWN too! After all, I played the original. Seems a shame not to try the update.
CO is a great game when it works. I bet STO is too. They have to be consistently playable though. That's just a bare minimum requirement to me and I'm thinking, to other people with new sub money too.
Anyway.. : /
I hope they get stuff sorted out soon and am rooting for them. It was way more fun reading/writing about & enjoying the fun things in game.
- Bleh I still can't get Xev out of MI.. "Fatal Error.."