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Osashiburi. 2005 was... long, and vicious. But not all bad.
I walked out of EQ about this time last year. Details aren't important. Oddly enough, when the dust started settling, the one thing that made me /sad/ about the actual quitting.... was that my tailoring was four points away from 200... and it was my last skill I needed to get /to/ 200 in order to hit 1450.
It took me four months to even think about EQ without feeling sick, or sad enough to equate the same. And by then I had a lot of other, more important messes that needed cleaning. None of my EQ friends that I still talked to outside of the game still played EQ... I was one of the last to leave. I heard stories -- mostly bad ones, of course, who repeats the good stories? or else just bad twists on mere information -- about what was happening with the game. "Can you believe SOE? Raising some cap or other... 300 hp on a shield, what munchkining," blah, something like that, I barely remember.
In August, a friend of a friend wanted to pick up the game again... and spent three days trying to fix his UI alone. I decided it was probably a good thing I wasn't playing.
And yet... curiosity killed the cat, and those four points I never forgot.
I got this email before Christmas, from SOE: "Hi! Come play again! 21 free days if you log in before Jan 13th!" December was.... not a good time for me to take advantage of this offer. January may or may not be better, actually, heh. At first I thought, "good lord, I'd never find my way around.... and if after a year, what if someone remembered the bad side and harrassed me..."
And then I thought, "You know, Sanna, those four stupid tailoring points are never gonna leave you alone. Either get OVER them, or just log in and get them and be done with it!"
So... my question.
What has changed in a /year/? Do I even want to be considering this train of thought? Is my expectation of being able to log in and find some previously known way of tailoring (loy robes, solstice robes) even feasable, or would someone in the know laugh at me? Am I an OCD fool for letting those four points cause me to even /consider/ this? Would I be too old-school to survive, even if I never attempted combat at all? Is there anything left of the game I knew?
I would ask, "am I crazy," except a long time ago, the answer was established as a 'yes'. So I ask instead... Am I /too/ crazy?
... and to completely make the moderators fall out of their chair... is this the right forum for this question? I pondered PS and OOC, but they didn't seem right either...... that's definately a measure of how long I've been gone, when /I/ have to ask /that/ question. : p.
So... how have you all been?
-- Sanna
I walked out of EQ about this time last year. Details aren't important. Oddly enough, when the dust started settling, the one thing that made me /sad/ about the actual quitting.... was that my tailoring was four points away from 200... and it was my last skill I needed to get /to/ 200 in order to hit 1450.
It took me four months to even think about EQ without feeling sick, or sad enough to equate the same. And by then I had a lot of other, more important messes that needed cleaning. None of my EQ friends that I still talked to outside of the game still played EQ... I was one of the last to leave. I heard stories -- mostly bad ones, of course, who repeats the good stories? or else just bad twists on mere information -- about what was happening with the game. "Can you believe SOE? Raising some cap or other... 300 hp on a shield, what munchkining," blah, something like that, I barely remember.
In August, a friend of a friend wanted to pick up the game again... and spent three days trying to fix his UI alone. I decided it was probably a good thing I wasn't playing.
And yet... curiosity killed the cat, and those four points I never forgot.
I got this email before Christmas, from SOE: "Hi! Come play again! 21 free days if you log in before Jan 13th!" December was.... not a good time for me to take advantage of this offer. January may or may not be better, actually, heh. At first I thought, "good lord, I'd never find my way around.... and if after a year, what if someone remembered the bad side and harrassed me..."
And then I thought, "You know, Sanna, those four stupid tailoring points are never gonna leave you alone. Either get OVER them, or just log in and get them and be done with it!"
So... my question.
What has changed in a /year/? Do I even want to be considering this train of thought? Is my expectation of being able to log in and find some previously known way of tailoring (loy robes, solstice robes) even feasable, or would someone in the know laugh at me? Am I an OCD fool for letting those four points cause me to even /consider/ this? Would I be too old-school to survive, even if I never attempted combat at all? Is there anything left of the game I knew?
I would ask, "am I crazy," except a long time ago, the answer was established as a 'yes'. So I ask instead... Am I /too/ crazy?
... and to completely make the moderators fall out of their chair... is this the right forum for this question? I pondered PS and OOC, but they didn't seem right either...... that's definately a measure of how long I've been gone, when /I/ have to ask /that/ question. : p.
So... how have you all been?
-- Sanna
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