So here it is, my first mmo-a-week report. I apologize for not posting it yesterday, but I put in over 12 very frustrating hours at work and pretty much fell asleep the moment I finally got home in the evening.
I am going to see how the play-along journal format works out. I’m kind of torn on it, but it’s what I’ve written so it’s what I’m posting. Just imagine that today is really Nov 4th and we’re skipping through days with every couple of paragraphs 
Week 1: Dragonica
I’ve heard about Dragonica for a while now through banner ads but didn’t really give it a second thought. My first impression: cutesy korean mmo with all of the cookie cutter website components one expects. Seriously, do they sell MMO-in-a-Box or something at convenience stores over there? Dismissed the game entirely and thought nothing of it (like I do with the five or six other identical games I see this way every day).
Yesterday (the day I decided to torture myself), I got involved in a conversation on GamerDNA where someone had posted some of her screenshots of the game. After asking a few times for specifics on what distinguishes the game from everything else out there, the only answers I got were “pretty” and “no clicky combat”. Which… doesn’t really distinguish it from very much of anything imho. I almost decided against trying the game for week 1 when I read on their front page that the servers were planned for maintenance from 1000 to 1700 GMT+8. Ammon fails at math. GMT+8 != GMT-8 (where I am). So in stead of the game being down from 10am to 5pm my time, it finished patching at 1am, I think.
Away we go!
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