Almost same here. I'm a lazy fuck with a habit of procrastination so I have already taken a borderline hiatus from playing Watch Dogs 1 since almost 2 years, where I both made more progress & less progress than the last time I played it. Then I started playing Warframe in January (I blame the Atomicycle for that), & then downloaded Sleeping Dogs around March as a detox from this game, & have yet to fully 100% it (I've completed around 80-90% of the game, only things left are DLCs). I wanted to play Witcher 3 for the first time 2 months ago, but couldn't because this game makes me not wanna bother with anything (& the game isn't even that good either).
Also, holy fuck:
I didn't even know Anarchy Online still existed, I played that when I was extremely young kek.
It's on maintenance mode, so Funcom no longer updates it, but the official servers are still up and somewhat active. Hard to get a response to support tickets, but there are still two long-time GMs who might answer them in a few weeks. The froob program is still active, so you can still play Rubi-Ka and the first 200 levels for free, which is such a complete and fun game that there are dedicated froobs who have been free players for more than a decade (I have a froob account alongside my paid one).
It obviously feels a little dated, but the twinking system is still insane like no other MMO, so if you're a skilled enough Agent or Trader, you can twink gear that the average player can equip at level 60-100 when you're 1-15, making you really powerful. A level 25 Agent using Martial Arts managed to twink up to the level 200 Meta-Physicist pet and solo all the bosses in the level 60 dungeon. He was killing the final boss in like 5 huge crits. Not sure how much you remember about the game, but even an expensive paid 60 twink takes a minute or two to kill him. This ability to plan and calculate to stack and ladder implants and stat-buffing items to equip abnormally high level gear is really deep and basically means you can make your character as powerful as you feel like gathering buffing items and doing a lot of math.
There are still a few really active orgs (guilds) and several active player-run chat channels where people organize raids, and a global advertising channel run by my org that literally everyone in the game uses to advertise PvM teams and free raid loot they'll let you take because they don't need it. Great, old community full of mature boomers who are really helpful and generous to newbies.
Leveling is much faster these days. There are daily missions that are mostly pretty fun, so you no longer have to kill 50,000 aliens to reach Alien Level 30.
And the soundtrack just gives me so much nostalgia for the feel of late-90s/early-00s gaming. This track alone (especially 2 minutes to the end) makes me feel like a teenager again:
The only real problem is the small PvP community full of retarded mongoloid faggots who not only cheat and dupe and exploit, but will also crash the entire game server for everyone to avoid losing their tower fields. They're real pieces of shit, and Funcom doesn't have enough staff on the game to permanently deal with them. So even if you're like me and don't PvP, they still affect you when you can't zone or talk to NPCs because a player found an exploit to kill the server for 5 minutes.
I don't know how much time they'll keep the game running, so I've been trying to keep my account open so I can hang out for a while until it's over.
