Gaming

I want to start playing some computer games again. I haven’t played for over one year. Before I left for Japan I played Guildwars almost everyday and Counterstrike on regular basis. One year later I am 2 versions behind with Guildwars. Nowadays some friends are also playing Battlefield 2142. Which isn’t a RPG like Guildwars, so that saves a lot of free time.

I don’t want to spend a shit-load of money on both Guildwars and BF, so yesterday I was thinking which game to play. For each Guildwars chapter I have to pay $50 and the same price for Battlefield 2142. Today I decided to go with Battlefield, so I downloaded the demo. Of course it didn’t work: “Connection EA Master Server timed out”. This happens every-time when creating an user account. I checked if the BF-process was creating connections or not – of course it did. The next time I tried was creating a DMZ-host in my router and that didn’t help either. Now I am afraid the full version of the game won’t work because it somehow can’t connect to the master server. EA really starts to suck more and more the last few years.

Should I buy the game or not? Maybe it is better to go with Guildwars anyway. Below an ingame screenshot from Guildwars.