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Dear SOE.
Thank you for my Christmas gift of 21 free days of EQ. I appreciate this very much. Thanks to this gift, I was able to finish a goal I was unable to complete a year ago; I brought all my tradeskills to at least 200. Well, all the major ones anyway : p. I also was able to play enough and remember that this game was indeed, at one point in time, /fun/. And that's about the greatest Christmas gift you can ever give to one of your (former) customers.
I would also like to thank you for fixing ... I don't even know what you fixed. I can run both clients for both my accounts on my computer (which has not recieved any hardware upgrades since I quit one year ago) with hardly any lag, even in outdoor zones. Also, whatever you did that keeps the mouse in one client from locking while the other client is zoning.... THANK YOU FOR THAT.
However, playing the game was liking reliving a dream. I could not stay here... too many things are only mostly-familiar in that half-remembered way. I would never be able to play my way up to join a raiding guild, and I've done all the sub-raiding things I want to do in an MMO. This is not a 'problem' that I would expect anyone, dev-side or not, to be able to fix. This is simply... how life is.
I've ignored my character on the Real-Life server for far too long. There's a backlog of green/grey quests that need taking care of, not to mention I've been lax at running my trader so my funds are rather low. I don't belong in the EQ world anymore; these three weeks have been a nice jaunt into the past, into "what might have been" in a sense, and for once, I had the ability to play a game and not feel pressured because I'm so far behind my friends that I am worthless. This time is coming to a close, and.... life is going in this other direction. A direction that doesn't have room for an MMO... no matter which MMO it is, no matter how beautiful or well-coded or how many friends I may have that play it.
Despite the things people (and myself) have said in the past... you guys are not all bad. You're humans in a world that doesn't want to let you make human mistakes. Doesn't that suck.
Farewell, SOE... my EQ time ends on the 30th of January, my EQ2 subscription runs out on Feb 9th. It's been a very very... informative three years, and my life would be irrevocably different without having played this game. And I'm glad that, for once in my life, rather than feeling something has been ripped out of my cold dead hand, I can instead merely /leave/ with no harsh words and negative emotions.
Farewell, EQTC... to say the time has been merely "interesting" would be a saddening understatement. You've provided a wealth of information to the people who needed it most, and a huge community to the people who wanted it. I learned a lot of lessons here, about myself and about other people, at the expense of a great portion of good things. I wish you luck in the future, and I leave you thanks and apologies for the past.
Be safe, everyone. I may be around for a few more days, but not much longer. This has been... too long in coming. But even the tortise eventually covers the ground over which it slowly walks ^_^.
*bows, waves, and heads out the door*
Thank you for my Christmas gift of 21 free days of EQ. I appreciate this very much. Thanks to this gift, I was able to finish a goal I was unable to complete a year ago; I brought all my tradeskills to at least 200. Well, all the major ones anyway : p. I also was able to play enough and remember that this game was indeed, at one point in time, /fun/. And that's about the greatest Christmas gift you can ever give to one of your (former) customers.
I would also like to thank you for fixing ... I don't even know what you fixed. I can run both clients for both my accounts on my computer (which has not recieved any hardware upgrades since I quit one year ago) with hardly any lag, even in outdoor zones. Also, whatever you did that keeps the mouse in one client from locking while the other client is zoning.... THANK YOU FOR THAT.
However, playing the game was liking reliving a dream. I could not stay here... too many things are only mostly-familiar in that half-remembered way. I would never be able to play my way up to join a raiding guild, and I've done all the sub-raiding things I want to do in an MMO. This is not a 'problem' that I would expect anyone, dev-side or not, to be able to fix. This is simply... how life is.
I've ignored my character on the Real-Life server for far too long. There's a backlog of green/grey quests that need taking care of, not to mention I've been lax at running my trader so my funds are rather low. I don't belong in the EQ world anymore; these three weeks have been a nice jaunt into the past, into "what might have been" in a sense, and for once, I had the ability to play a game and not feel pressured because I'm so far behind my friends that I am worthless. This time is coming to a close, and.... life is going in this other direction. A direction that doesn't have room for an MMO... no matter which MMO it is, no matter how beautiful or well-coded or how many friends I may have that play it.
Despite the things people (and myself) have said in the past... you guys are not all bad. You're humans in a world that doesn't want to let you make human mistakes. Doesn't that suck.
Farewell, SOE... my EQ time ends on the 30th of January, my EQ2 subscription runs out on Feb 9th. It's been a very very... informative three years, and my life would be irrevocably different without having played this game. And I'm glad that, for once in my life, rather than feeling something has been ripped out of my cold dead hand, I can instead merely /leave/ with no harsh words and negative emotions.
Farewell, EQTC... to say the time has been merely "interesting" would be a saddening understatement. You've provided a wealth of information to the people who needed it most, and a huge community to the people who wanted it. I learned a lot of lessons here, about myself and about other people, at the expense of a great portion of good things. I wish you luck in the future, and I leave you thanks and apologies for the past.
Be safe, everyone. I may be around for a few more days, but not much longer. This has been... too long in coming. But even the tortise eventually covers the ground over which it slowly walks ^_^.
*bows, waves, and heads out the door*
Bye Sanny 
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