Oh hello there, I didn’t see you come in. \u00a0Won’t you make yourself comfortable?<\/p>\n
There’s been a lot on the go since I last wrote and I thought it was well past time to got down a few lines.<\/p>\n
Some of you will recall that when I returned to the Realms of Despair that I joined the Order of Arete. \u00a0The order was formed primarily by a group of players who were unhappy with the way Dragonslayer was being run at the time. \u00a0The details depend on who you ask so I won’t put myself in the middle of it, I wasn’t here at the time. \u00a0It seems that in the next little while the order will be shut down. \u00a0This is a pretty rare thing in the Realms, the only other order to be decommissioned was Maidenstone. \u00a0I’ve written before about the drama that led to my decision to leave Arete and that a number of players came with me back to Dragonslayer which was under new management. \u00a0The whole thing was triggered by Raveyn and Jaxxon disappearing, effectively vacating the Leader and First positions and it seems that exodus is part of the death knell we hear tolling today. \u00a0I applaud Alex and the others who have been involved with trying to keep the order alive and for what appears to be a substantial effort to close the order in a very fair manner.<\/p>\n
Some of you noticed I’ve also left Dragonslayer. \u00a0Less drama around this decision but I would say that the new areas being introduced and no one around to explore with was the straw that broke the camel’s back. \u00a0I see they’ve been recruiting members of GoO again and running S\/O and I wish them well. \u00a0I’ve seen this exact pattern before and the people recruited ended up going inactive after getting discouraged by maybe this time it’ll be different.<\/p>\n
I’ve come to the point of my game playing now where I’m interested in having fun. \u00a0If I can’t figure out how to have fun I may as well quit and go do something else with my time. \u00a0I have been playing a great deal on my own and I’ve been having fun with adventuring but ultimately I returned to the Realms to have a bit of a social aspect to my game. \u00a0My Diablo clan had reduced itself to a few guys who only wanted to run top tier stuff and wouldn’t help anyone who was beneath that play level. \u00a0Similarly I see a lot of people on Realms with the attitude “it’s not worth the effort to run it, just buy it off auction and gold when you’re bored”. \u00a0If this is how you play can I suggest that there are other games where you leave your browser window open and the gold total ticks up and every so often you have new events available you can watch… and if the gold ticks up too slow you can go all hax0rz on the Javascript and just put whatever total you want in.<\/p>\n
As an applicant to Ascendere I’ve encountered a group of players that go and kill things and gear their characters themselves. \u00a0They adventure and learn and poke into corners of the Realms \u00a0just for fun. \u00a0I’ve been to a great number of mobs lately that “aren’t worth the effort, just buy it off auction and gold to get more gear”. \u00a0I’ve had a lot of fun actually knocking these things down and seeing how they’ve been written. \u00a0There are some less fun aspects to some of these fights but they’re unique challenges.<\/p>\n
There is a lot of effort going into recruiting new players. \u00a0Last time almost none of them stuck around. \u00a0Attitudes are contagious, yours might kill. \u00a0If you have a bad attitude consider that just because you’ve been there and done that doesn’t mean others have. \u00a0Maybe if you’ve been there and done that to death it’s time to just retire and stop pretending that you play… or maybe you can find a way to put that vast experience to work in a positive way. \u00a0Build something, write a quest … try something you haven’t done before, you might find a new measure of reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"