New week, new tasks

Luckily, the seasonal tasks for the week aren't crazy. In fact, the dynamic encounters one is pretty good; I've already maxed out achievements for three of the four planets, but that gives me an excuse to go work on Tython now too! It's a little weird that GSI came up again two weeks back to back, but I remembered last week that if you don't finish the weekly mission in one day, then you can reset the dailies. There's actually not any reason to go to more than one planet unless you really want to; you can repeat the quick and easy GSI on Tatooine and not have to worry about running around Alderaan, Makeb or Hoth unless you want to, for instance. Although if you do it that way, it takes a few days of doing a few missions daily, rather than just getting it all done in an hour and a half or however long it takes. I actually think that I can do the entire weekly requirements, although I'm not sure that I care. I'm only a few achievements away from getting the Bryar pistol. I'm not going to be able to get to the named fancier pistol later on, so really that's about as far as my goals go. I think there's still one more week after this week before the season ends, but I don't remember. I know that I came back more than halfway through this season, so I've never been concerned about trying to get the whole thing complete. I didn't even pay attention to it at all the first few weeks that I was playing. 

Ideally, I could play this game completely solo. The non-story flashpoints, operations, Heroic 4s, etc. would be modified to be soloable. And ideally, I could play it offline. But I'm not sure how that works with things like the event rotation. Ideally, I could turn them on as I wished, i.e., if I wanted to do an older season that I missed, I just could go find it like a mission somewhere and start it. If I wanted to do rakghoul, I could get the rakghouls tunnels out whenever I want them, etc. It'll never happen, but that's what would have been ideal for me, or would be an ideal end state when the game eventually goes offline, which—no doubt it will someday.

Maybe I just need to finish playing it while I can. It's fifteen years old this year. It seems to be going strong; steady and low key, but steady and not in any danger of having the plug pulled. But I keep thinking that it will eventually. I need to play through it while I can, and then move on, like I did with Red Dead Online. I had a lot of fun with that for a while. I don't know if it's still up or not; I haven't tried to play it in a few years, and I don't even have the PS4 anymore; one of my kids took it with him. That's that. It's over, and that's OK. Would I come back and play a bit of RDO again if I could? Maybe. But I don't really think about it or care. I need to get to that point with SWTOR. I thought that maybe I was, but I'm back again, and enjoying myself quite a bit again. What I really need to do is finish playing through with my current characters, maybe make the five or so new characters that I have planned and play them too, and then... just walk away. At some point, that's the way to solve it; just walk away. 

But I'm not quite ready yet. I'm still enjoying it for now. And when I'm done playing it here in a couple of months or so, I'll probably come back again still. Probably. Although given the eighteen month or so break that I recently took, maybe not. That's usually a sign of longer, or even permanent breaks coming next. I might be about done after this. We'll see.

It is frustrating that it's an online game on a server, though. It means that you can't ever go back after it's gone and revisit it. If I wanted to play KOTOR again, I could. I have a Steam copy. I haven't; after my Xbox died, I haven't played it again. But I have it archived in case I want to someday on Steam, because I could buy it for only a few bucks, so why not?