A couple months ago(like 7 or 8), just a few months after i finally got rid of my Guild Wars addiction, i was once again yearning for more. I want another online game but not WoW. Nooo, not WoW. I had vowed to myself a long time ago that i would never fall down to this monster. So i started playing around with the trials available to the other MMOs around.
First i tried EVE Online. EVE was cool. Since in the past i had been addicted to a simple retarded browser game called “Dark Galaxy”, it was very nice to find a visual representation of the kind of game. I played it for 3 or 4 weeks(2 different trial accounts ;) ) but although it was cool and sci-fi, it didn’t capture me somehow. In the end, i made up my mind that i wouldn’t want to pay to play this game so i went to try other stuff.
Around the time that i quit EVE, the Lords of the Ring Online public beta’s were announced. I like the LOTR lore so, why not? Well, maybe because it was still in beta, i also didn’t find it a much better experience than EVE. The available character classes seemed boring, i couldn’t get along with the control scheme and i stopped playing it. However, reading the reactions on QT3 about this beta, there was a couple of users who kept saying that the UI was a total ripoff from WoW.
Intrigued, i downloaded the trial and started my journey into Azeroth.
