Just throwing down some thoughts while the servers down for a patch.  Playing Alganon the last few days has brought me back to the glory days of my MMO playing.  Its brought back the feeling of excitement because there are no guides, no spoon feeding, no hand holding.  You need to figure things out yourself, you need to help each other, everyone is working together closely to push ahead.

That is what I play games online for, the community and interaction with others.  I'm glad to be playing a game that has so many positive people in it, I havent had to deal with any negative people yet.  There are no trolls, gold sellers, farmers, ignorant children that other games hold disrupting my good time.  People may have their differing opinions about Alganon, but one things for sure, the people playing the game are great to be around and thats something rarely found these days in an online game.

I remember a time when playing mmo's forced you to enhance your ability to type and use your keyboard with weasel fast movements.  I could navigate a character on autorun through any content in the game and have a conversation by the paragraph in guildchat without even thinking about it.

I didnt mind it; it kept my typing skills sharper than a secretary pumping out 90 wpm all day.   I didn't know the age or sex of anyone I was talking to, their letters couldnt really annoy me, there were no accents/speech impediments to make it difficult for me to understand them, and even if they had rather horrid personalities it really didnt come out TOO much through text chat.  They were for better or worse their character and as I came to find out later on in my gaming life, that was probably for the better.