I have been playing the MMORPG called Vanguard: Saga of Heroes since beta. But a few months ago I canceled my subscription and stopped playing. On Dec. 18th, 2007 SOE decided to reactivate everyone’s account for a free month if you were inactive since Oct 1, 2007. I am glad I came back to the game, SOE has made great changes (Mostly Fixes) to the game. There are a lot more people playing now and they are have a Christmas event in the game so it is all decorated and you get free presents. The city of Khal has also go a makeover and the performance is much better now. The performance in general for the entire game is much better, they have fixed a ton of memory leaks and bugs. At launch the game would use 95% of my 2 Gigs of ram but now usually uses around 70% and run a lot smoother. I crash a lot less often and I am able to run with the graphics turned up on max and still get a decent framerate on my single Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX. The game still looks great and now performs great. My Guild is more active again and SOE is giving everyone a 50% XP bonus and free flying Reindeer for the Holidays. I have been able to go from level 23 to level 29 in about a week. Things are looking much better for Vanguard. If you have not checked it out recently then you should give it a try or retry if you left.