How to kill your survivor paragon for dummies

Long time no see and the rest. However, this lesson was sooooo frustrating that I really have to write about it.

So, there are three prerequisites:
1. be greedy
2. be stupid
3. you don't usually fumble with the keyboard, but you absolutely must do it when you realize that you're dying

Looks like I met these criteria and managed to make short work of several months during which I brought that paragon to be an almost Indomitable Survivor. Almost, yeah, there were less than 100K points left until the second tier of the Survivor title.

How on Earth did I do it? Easy: I wanted to do the Tihark Orchard mission and get the master's reward for it. I was hungry for XP, okay? Tihark Orchard is a rather easy mission, but one has to enter it alone. No heroes, no henchmen. So, I managed to kill The Hunger in Moddok Crevice, and I got killed by a pitiful actor while re-enacting the victory of Turai Ossa over Palawa Joko. And the fake Palawa Joko only causes -2 health degeneration with his Life Siphon hex.

So, I beat him, but I was hexed and my life was slowly going down the drain. I realized that and I wanted to resign the mission, but... you know, fumbling with the keyboard in a moment like this is worse than any "death by lag".

Of course, that was not my only mistake. Why the hell didn't I take some Skalefin Soup with me, huh? That would have slowed the degeneration. And why didn't I, at least, use one of the Mysterious Summoning Stones I had in the backpack? That's a real mystery. If I used one of those, I'd have saved my energy for regeneration skills. And then I chose to type the resign command instead of hitting "M" and map-travel to the outpost with a double-click - which means the same thing.

Bah! R.I.P. Dayo Sundance! And she was not just any survivor... I accidentally realized that the Survivor title was still enabled when she was level 18, and only then I started paying attention to it.

*sigh*

I gave up

So much for Runes of Magic! Two days after I finally got to play it, a client update broke it for good. It said that it can't find some procedure in t2embed.dll. Isn't that cute? Of course it's also VERY wrong, but that's life.

Meanwhile... a virus walks into a bar...

Angry troll is angry ~X(

What the hell was I thinking when I wanted to download and install Runes of Magic? *headdesk**headdesk**headdesk*

Okay, so the client installation kit takes about 5GB of hard disk space which, of course, takes a rather long time to download. It also takes a long time to install. But I expected to be able to play after installing it.

Wait, what? Play? Just who the hell did I think I was? No sireeee, now we have to update the client. And then update the client. And then UPDATE the client and update the client again. Two hours of UPDATING the client and we're at 81% done. I bet that after this update there will be an UPDATE and then an update and another update until the end of the year.

Why the hell would someone expect the users pay to get the fabled in-game currency (diamonds) in order to give their character a bigger stick after such a loooooooooooong update? I already want to delete my account, this game is boring. What kind of gameplay is this? Sit in front of your PC and stare at the update screen, hoping that the "Start Game" button will become active?

What did I tell you? The update is over. As I guessed, the UPDATE started. Is this game client really downloading? Or is it uploading the entire content of my hard disk to some server on the Moon?

Again, why did I want to try this game? Oh, wait, it says now that the current version is 2.1.2.1916.en. According to the "version.txt" in its "Download" directory, the latest version should be 2.1.2.1944.en... *maniacal laughter*

I think that maybe I'm going to be able to play it before the end of January 2010. Yay Frogster Interactive! NOT!

*fuming*