Thanks for the info. Sounds like Albion and Das Tal will be cool. Were you guys playing Albion Online in an alpha or test event type setting? Is there anyway to get in before the beta starts (which appears to be scheduled for November? ) I'm excited that some interesting games are on the way but the waiting game sucks.

I'm sad to hear that the pvp in Shards is clunky as I would have enjoyed a UO 2.0. I read about the player controlled shards and that's cool and all but what made UO great was the big mixture of players with different goals/objectives all existing in the same game. 130 players seems really limited and I'm surprised that they can only handle so few players as that is less than the UO servers could handle in the 90s and it doesn't seem like there is anything graphically that would restrict a larger number of players playing together.