Well, who didn't expect this? At least eventually. I've never been the shining beacon of having hope in Elements, where I would persevere through the longest of waits and come out with a completely renewed faith in zanz every time we were graced with our essentially annual large patch. I am probably the opposite of that. ANYWAYS.
This shouldn't be a farewell. I'll still be on the forums (in all likelihood). I'm not leaving because I have to, I'm leaving because I want to. I guess. I've decided that I don't want to play anymore (goodbye goal of 1m score, RIP), and naturally that will mean the largely reduced activity of someone who was only really ever here for the PvP aspect. I might still post, I'll definitely still be lurking. Hell, there's always the chance that I'll play again (Looking at you, Grid 3 and maybe Wizcat War if it takes awhile). But at this point in time, I really don't want to. Whatever inside of me that wanted to keep making excuses for the game decided to stop working today, and is at best on injury leave.
In the chance that this is actually a farewell, I'd like to say some things.
I hope this patch succeeds. I really do. I hope it renews the game for many people and I hope it brings new people to play and eventually to be on the forum. I just don't see it. I see the same old AI, the same decks I've seen everywhere, the same god awful grinding games happening. Sure there might be more of them, but that doesn't really change the quality for me. For me, someone who has never particularly liked grinding against AIs and already has all the cards that the game will not RNG offer me, I don't see why I would get into this. Maybe I'm missing something. But I doubt it. I also hate platinum arena. A lot. Probably gold too. They both kill the will to play very much, but platinum takes the cake.
I hope zanz becomes more active. It's always been a hope of mine. That we get more interaction than the basically annual patch+whenever stuff really breaks. But I doubt it. I hope zanz eventually gets around to answering the zanz questionnaire thing. I don't think I've ever been asking for too much, just an update on how he is or dropping by to say hi. Because every time he leaves, the thought always comes around that he won't be back again. I just don't see zanz staying active.
Where the game has failed me, the community has picked me up, told me there's hope and lead me forward on the golden brick road of enjoying this game (nearly all the time). From tournaments to leagues to events to war to trials etc. Without the community/forums, there is absolutely no way I would have stayed with this game as long as I have. I would like to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who decides that they would give up their free time to willingly host these events/do stuff for the forums. I may disagree with rulings, disagree with rules, disagree with how things are handled, etc. But I will always be thankful for the time put you put into this community. Thank these people more, guys. I'd also like to thank the admin/s and 6th council for giving me a chance to do something (6th council and Trials Overseer respectively).
Super special incredible mention to War 3 Team Darkness. TorB, Wiz, Mith, paper, sux, Jay, and Malig (special mentions to sux and Wiz). I may have been in Team Darkness in War 4, and even picked my own team in War 5, but War 3 will forever be my favorite group. It wasn't just a group of teammates to me, it became so much more. Even after War ended, it was still there. It was still a special place to chat. I will never forget the time there, and I thank you all for making it such a great place (and torb for taking the chance on me in overtime). I really want to say more, to lump on more praise and words. But I've never been good in situations like this.
I've never hidden that I dislike people from the community. It's to be expected, especially from me. I've also had plenty of people that I'd begrudgingly tolerate. But none of that. There are many people that I'd also like to thank, for..well, being here and making this place so much better for me. ddevans, n00b, RR, Wiz, kirch, Kuro, makku, Jenkar, will, sux, TorB, Ops, etc are all great people. I'm absolutely positive I am missing people, so they're great too. But thinking of all the people I'll miss just makes writing this harder and makes me want to just erase everything I've written and just keep playing so I have to push forward.
So..I guess that's pretty much all of it. Goes without saying that I'll be dropping TrO (even should I return, even though I do want to host it again, I just don't see myself putting in the commitment again). Grid best PvP Event, still don't like CIA, etc.
Account name: Revoltion
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If you'd like to get into contact with me outside of the forum, shoot me a PM. If I want to I'll send contact infos.
In the case of seeing people in the future, see you then. In the case of not seeing people, farewell.
-TotallynotOni
God I hope I didn't leave out anything important.
