About

I wrote the following piece about a year ago (if today is October 8, 2011). I started this blog with no intentions and it grew into a fascination similar to the game itself. I’m currently 24, living in NC, and do work full time. I returned to the game January 2011 but left in May to move states. I’m still considering a return. Professionally, I’m in sales. Amateur-ly, I’m a writer, cook, musician, and filmmaker. Every now and then, I’ll post some of my written work on here. My dream in life is to either be a law professor, an author, or a TV screenwriter. For the record, I strongly dislike Chuck Lorre. Sorry Chuck. I love comedy and will occasionally write posts that are meant to make you laugh. I’m not an expert at this game, I just spent a lot of time running around Tunaria and talking to random folks. As stated in the intro to this paragraph, this is the updated part of my About section. Here’s the original:

(10/9/10)

I’m not a gamer. That’s not a denial statement either. I played a lot of video games growing up and a lot more in high school… but in the past 5 years I have played a little bit of WoW and that’s it. Also, a gamer is generally good at video games… me? Not so much.

Though I did consume myself with EQOA for 2.5 years — It got to the point where I would have a girlfriend over and I wouldn’t hesitate to leave the room and check in on my character.

So if that was the case, then how am I not a gamer? I don’t really play games as much as watch how other people play them. That sounds ridiculous, but in the 2.5 years I played EQOA, I got just 2 characters past level 50. (One was level 51 and the other was leveled for me by a friend from 48 to 60.)

With that said, I can tell you about everything there is to know about the game, including who players were (check comments in some of the posts… 2 for 2 on recognizing people), where to find stuff, and elements that were mostly overlooked by other players. To this day, I still find it more enjoyable to watch a person play a game than to actually watch it.

Yet, EQOA had a lot to offer people with those kinds of interests. It was highly community based game that forced you into socializing. While most of this blog is dedicated to images, videos, and memories from something that consumed my life throughout high school, it’s also a way to curve an interest to return. EQOA during its prime can never be replicated.

I think most people who played it and miss it would agree with that. Thus, I’m putting this blog together for former players to get their fix of EQOA memories. Additionally, if you want to share a video, picture, or post about or from EQOA, shoot me an email at rickstonebrook@yahoo.com.

For more, check out this Link.

I am not affiliated with SOE and all written posts are original content while media are taken from various search engines and guild websites.