2013!

 Guess it's time for 2013 goals!

Gaming Related Goals:

• Get to max level on another char in World of Warcraft, bonus points if it's not DPS!
• Get to 60 on two hardcore Diablo 3 chars - one non-DH! (hopefully my highest level demon hunter, who is currently 50, doesn't die in the process!) - BONUS GOAL: Get through Hell, MP 0 on my DH and/or Paragon level 100!! (okay, realistic is more like 30 or 50)
• Play some LotRO (my minstrel, whom I LOVE)- and make Pat play too!
• Try Star Trek Online (never played before *gasp*).
• Ladder in HOTS and make it to at least Silver in either 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3 (I'll take it however I can get it!).
• Go to at least one eSports event.
• I would say "Finish a tier of raiding while it's current", but that kind of has NOTHING to do with anything I control (because I'm not willing to switch raid teams) - so I'll just say - be ready to raid and be nothing less than awesome, almost every time.
• Try Wizardry Online and don't give up even after 3 permadeaths!
• Finish FF3....again.
• Play at least one Zelda game, start to finish on the Wii.
• Learn to play at least one geeky TCG or board game.

Pat says to add be more open to console games. I immediately started crying, proving this is a bad idea! Therefore, it is STRICKEN from the 2013 goal list. TYVM!


Non-Gaming related:

• Get closer to what I used to be as far as being healthy: Lose 60 pounds, work out regularly, be fit in general.
• Keep the house a little more picked up in the main areas (by not throwing stuff into the non-main areas).
• Read It Doesn't Take a Hero by General Norman Schwarzkopf.
• Read A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Dugard.
• On second thought - Create a reading list for 2013 including the above two books.
• Go to San Diego more often to visit with mom and the fam.
• Take one trip out of state with Mom and/or Dad.
• Blog MOAR! Both personally and on gaming stuff.
• Learn to make a podcast - and then do one for at least 6 episodes. DISCLAIMER: I do not want to learn bumpers, or music. I want it more in the disunplugged podcast style.
• Do a big event for my birthday. Do two (one big and one small) if I can't mix fam and non-fam (translation drinking and non-drinking) events.
• Get out of the house more with Pat. This includes going to movies, going out of town for no reason, doing stupid stuff in town that I know is stupid, but enjoying it because I CHOOSE to live in a town with nothing that I enjoy doing as far as out of the house entertainment.
• Spend less time on Starcraft Reddit. Srsly. Dregs of the internet.
• Go to Vegas at least once every two months between April and October - unless a party or event has been planned to fill that weekend.
• Take mom to a play.

Gaming Industry Predictions

• Wildstar will unfortunately fail, and not in a pretty way. NCsoft will take an even larger hit in faith from the western market.
• I will set all my hopes and dreams on the new Mark Jacobs MMO and will be probably crushed even more than I was for Warhammer Online. I may just give up MMOs all together because of it. No pressure Mark.
• Leap Motion will find a niche in gaming that will be a truly groundbreaking feature for lots of gamers. REALLY looking forward to seeing this one work out..
• Ouya will launch and not be what anyone really wanted from it.
• Onlive won't see much daylight in 2013, including anything that has to do with Ouya.
• Mabinogi and Wakfu will be the standard of "fun" in f2p games for western audiences (okay okay, this one is a reach, but I still LOVE THEM!).
• Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will change my mind about where Square Enix's brains went during the most recent FF games, from FF 10 on. (Pat says this one won't happen, but I want to have faith in Squeenix!)
• The Elder Scrolls Online will be hated by everyone who's ever played an  Elder Scrolls game and loved by everyone else.
• CCP will find they should have kept their noses in Eve out and of World of Darkness.
• I will ply everyone who has ever, or still does, work for SOE for the chance to beta EQ Next, as the good little SOE fan girl that I am!
• HOTS will not die, and WoL does not need to be saved. Destiny will finally figure this out and go 100% to LOL.
• I will blog more, though in a true erratic fashion....cause that's how I roll.