So...
Subbed and played for (over) 4 years straight. Had a wonderfull time taking three years to get form ARR to end of ShB , 'just' in time for EW.
I've now unsubbed twice in... well 2 months. Unsub, wait a month, resub, and unsub at the end of that month's sub.
I've posted before about why I left the first time. (all friends gone after clearing but discouraging EW Exs and huge difficulty jump, 7 week Singularity unreal prog burn out, casual drought of EW, and then the DT MSQ and almost a 'promise' of more drought. Having to tear up estates and leave remaining hope of those friends to flee a Chaos DC with few people ever logged on who even all casual unlocked. And only a promise not to expect cross DC PF for now.)
This time, I only came back for a reason not related to the game. At the end of the day I have intermittent motor control issues, and I needed to test that. Gaming is a good way to see how well I am. But hey while I'm here lets clear Ex3 and try Chaotic (Well you can imagine how that went for someone who'd rather help people clear Icicles for the first time, than join a moody Ex farm abandon group. Something for which I get not a single Helio tome, not 1 gil. And people wonder why I'm gil poor.)
So I'm off to play other games. So when will I be back?
Well, I'm not paying £9 month sub+retainer just for some single Extreme.
I'm not paying £9 for some single alliance to sleep walk four times in the month.
I'm not paying £9 to spend any time farming boring casual rouls for gear with no social connection to keep me going, and not even a medium term reason to do anything. I don't care what content I need its tomes for gear for.
I'm certainly not investing heart in building connections because why will I stick around then if I'm not now.
I've got no pride in my little lala character now. So, there is just no grinding to collect anything I care about. Not minons, certainly not glam, not mounts, not emotes, not relics (see glam). My char is dead to me, this needs to be a divorce. Best thing. I'll just keep our meetings cordial if we have to meet.
So wait and save stuff up?
I don't find any casual stuff fun once party average item level hits around min+10 (if that)
I'm not interested in any High end content that's not still in the High end tab. (see item level)
Also, I basically only like fights if I can first take them as far as possible blind. I don't know how easy that is to do once a fights been out so long its dropped off high end.
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Subbed and played for (over) 4 years straight. Had a wonderfull time taking three years to get form ARR to end of ShB , 'just' in time for EW.
I've now unsubbed twice in... well 2 months. Unsub, wait a month, resub, and unsub at the end of that month's sub.
I've posted before about why I left the first time. (all friends gone after clearing but discouraging EW Exs and huge difficulty jump, 7 week Singularity unreal prog burn out, casual drought of EW, and then the DT MSQ and almost a 'promise' of more drought. Having to tear up estates and leave remaining hope of those friends to flee a Chaos DC with few people ever logged on who even all casual unlocked. And only a promise not to expect cross DC PF for now.)
This time, I only came back for a reason not related to the game. At the end of the day I have intermittent motor control issues, and I needed to test that. Gaming is a good way to see how well I am. But hey while I'm here lets clear Ex3 and try Chaotic (Well you can imagine how that went for someone who'd rather help people clear Icicles for the first time, than join a moody Ex farm abandon group. Something for which I get not a single Helio tome, not 1 gil. And people wonder why I'm gil poor.)
So I'm off to play other games. So when will I be back?
Well, I'm not paying £9 month sub+retainer just for some single Extreme.
I'm not paying £9 for some single alliance to sleep walk four times in the month.
I'm not paying £9 to spend any time farming boring casual rouls for gear with no social connection to keep me going, and not even a medium term reason to do anything. I don't care what content I need its tomes for gear for.
I'm certainly not investing heart in building connections because why will I stick around then if I'm not now.
I've got no pride in my little lala character now. So, there is just no grinding to collect anything I care about. Not minons, certainly not glam, not mounts, not emotes, not relics (see glam). My char is dead to me, this needs to be a divorce. Best thing. I'll just keep our meetings cordial if we have to meet.
So wait and save stuff up?
I don't find any casual stuff fun once party average item level hits around min+10 (if that)
I'm not interested in any High end content that's not still in the High end tab. (see item level)
Also, I basically only like fights if I can first take them as far as possible blind. I don't know how easy that is to do once a fights been out so long its dropped off high end.
continued...
Continue reading...