Author: Stargrace

Just another gamer with too much time on her hands.

[Wurm Online] Happy 20th Anniversary

Over the years, I’ve written a LOT of blog posts about my number one MMORPG love – Wurm Online. When I first started playing, I had never seen a game quite like this one before. I think that still holds true. Before the days of Minecraft (Notch would later move from Wurm to – well, we all know this story) we were terraforming and building deeds in Wurm.

I have not been playing for those full 20 years but I have played for many of them. I’ve sunk a lot of hours into the game, proudly. It fits a niche that no other game that I’ve ever played has fit – and I’ve met some of my closest friends in this game. Some are even still my friends now.

It was the game where I first became interested in community – and I was in fact their first community manager. I boldly volunteered myself for the role after learning that there was so such person. There has been such a person ever since. My name is still on the credits, and while I was just a kid back then who knew absolutely nothing about the gaming industry, I moved on to then work for Carbine Studios and NCSoft, and while those games I worked on may no longer be around (I miss you, Wildstar!) Wurm is still here.

If you happen to be playing, give me a nudge! I’m Stargrace, on the Independence server.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself.

[GW2] The Announcement

There’s a ton of speculation happening about ArenaNet’s latest teaser that dropped yesterday, showing – well, not a lot. A bit of map, and the promise that more information would be coming June 5th (that’s Friday).

My thought is that this will be a stand alone single player game set in Tyria. I don’t think it’s specific to GW2 or GW1 because it was mentioned on all of their socials, everywhere. I don’t think it’s GW3 like a lot of people do, because I simply don’t think enough time has passed to make that sort of announcement.

I do think it is an announcement about an announcement.

In a perfect world, I do wish this would be a Guild Wars 3 announcement, but I just don’t personally feel that it will be. I also see how Crimson Desert is doing (basically a single player version of Black Desert Online) and I think there’s absolutely money to be made with these single player games. Am I excited? Eh. Well. I’m not really keen on a single player version of Tyria. I do enjoy supporting ArenaNet, and I imagine we’ll just have to see what happens Friday.

As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

[General] May Gaming Wrap Up

As always, statistics come from TempusGameIt though I will admit that a week or so of statistics are missing because I keep forgetting to start the program once my computer restarts. Normally I restart my computer very little, but we’ve had a few storms that knocked the power out, so it is what it is.

This month saw a huge shift in my gaming – all of the sudden Guild Wars 2 became my #1. There’s a number of reasons for that, really. I’ve been floundering a bit all over trying to find community in World of Warcraft (unsuccessfully, so far) and I had some definitive goals that I wanted to accomplish in GW2. One of those being, a legendary – which I did manage to obtain. I am still posting auctions over on WoW, but I really need to restock, which I have been procrastinating on.

There was a little bit of EVE in there – basically just me logging in for the Capsuleer Day rewards, and a tiny bit of FFXIV. After playing for a season or two I decided that I simply did not have the time to dedicate to this game. It’s hard on me physically (the forced dungeons / trials, etc) and I have no community over there either, so it felt like I was replacing one game for another with no different outcome.

In GW2 I also swapped over to the EU servers – this means the game is incredibly busy during my actual hours of play. I am not an evening person, so my play times tend to be sporadically throughout the day and end around midnight in the UK. Having so many people around has been amazing, and I like that I can just dip in, run a few boss fights, and leave if I have to. Getting in to the content is quick, unlike FFXIV where I waited for 2h for a DPS queue to pop when I needed a trial. Oof.

Anyway. There was no mention of Wurm Online, but I did dip in and play there too. I just didn’t have TempusGameIt running, so it wasn’t recorded. I have not been playing there much, I mostly just check and see that everything is still standing. I tend to wander back in the fall, so we’ll see if that holds true. I am also still waiting for EverQuest Legends to release to the public. I’m unsure about this one, but I think it will be a good thing for all involved.

Anyway, that was gaming for the month of May. Here’s hoping I can actually get more blog posts out in June. As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

[WoW] Gold Making Wrap Up – Week 21 (2026)

Well. It was bound to happen. I did not log into World of Warcraft at all this week – and thus there is zero gold profit to show. So why still make a post about it? Well, for one to show folks that consistency IS key, but just because you don’t post for the week doesn’t mean you need to give up. Just pick it up again when you can.

I get back to it, eventually.