Guild Wars 2

I’m done…I’m gone…I’ve poured three years of my life into this game, lost countless hours of sleep, and spent way too much money on it….I’m done…I’ve deleted all of my characters and I wish I could return my Rytlock Statue…but it broke a while back and I couldn’t put it back together….like so many other things…I’m done, I’m sorry for any troubles I’ve caused, ROovid the Quaggan is gone for good…I’m done…goodbye Tarnished Coast.

With the hub bub about the whole HoT thing going on and the few posts I’ve seen from new people talking about mega servers….I thought this post was still relevant.

Mega servers did some damage to the player base; players left and have stopped throwing money at ANET. Which is what I did, speak with my wallet and my logins. This game was about playing with others and Mega Servers removed that. Tarnished Coast used to be bustling and packed in the main cities, in hindsight…the overflow servers were a good sign of how populated the place was…but the last time I logged in…it was sparse. That was sad.

Mega servers aren’t going away; it was too big of a change to ever revert.

ANET is a business; so while the prices did kind of surprise me a bit…I wasn’t all that upset…I played back in beta and was one of those folks that pre-ordered the game with the super huge massive legendary whatever the heck it was package…literally ran to Gamestop and picked up my extra large box from UPS with about five other nutjobs, and boy did we lavishly decorate our Rytlock statues….so the price for pre-order for HoT…is fairly reasonable to me, a veteran player. They have to make money and they have to compete with other game companies out there that have a much larger budget than they do, who can appeal and advertise to a far larger player base.

It’s a pretty game, the combat was always fun, the story lines were ok…at times…sometimes a bit ridiculous…but not as kittenome empty “kill 10 rats” stuff out there…there are mechanics that make GW2 a great game.

But MMORPGS are about playing with other people, and Mega Servers took that away from me. I lost friends…people I loved…I still stand by that…I won’t be coming back any time soon, I won’t be logging in, I’ll wait and watch…and if at some point in the future ANET changes their mind about Mega Servers…yeah, then I’ll come back.

I think at one point I said I hated ANET with every fiber of my being, probably chewed out a GM or two…I’m not sorry for what I said…just how I said it, so my apologies for that. In time, maybe I can rejoin you all and make new friends and we can once again flood Tarnished Coast with silly RPs and other hilarious Quaggany things.

So be nice folks, ANET is trying….be patient…they’re human-ish….and be smart with how you address issues you have with the game, because they will literally just shut you out if you start going off like a stack of firecrackers.

Mellaggan and Melandru be with you all, safe paths, dream well wibble wobbles off

I didn’t think my little bit would get this many views, but as folks can see, RP is mostly…nearly…dead in this game…my advice for any that are left, enjoy what you can, use what scraps ANET has left us…I don’t see anything changing, they’re targeting other folks now. The game has to stay profitable to keep them in business.

Also, one thing I would like to note, folks that RP now…that might be new to the game…new RPers…they think that you’ve just got to “try to make it work” and that RP is totally fine right now….things were vastly different, it’s like growing up in a city with light pollution blotting out most of the stars and thinking that the night sky is fine just as it is…but some folks remember when there weren’t so many city lights, when you could look up into that blackness and find hope burning bright in a billion billion points of light…compared to the few pale flames that shine through the blackness today. I’m not bitter, I’m moving on, grieving for my loss, and hoping that things in the future will change.

Besides, someone at ANET clearly likes RPers, or else I would’ve been banned a long long long time ago….

Hello, my name is Ravid aka ROovid the Quaggan…..amongst other names….and this is not the type of post you thought you were going to read on a saturday morning after a great big PAX announcement. I am a roleplayer and I realize now….after much struggle, debate, and hoping against all hope that things would be different….that I am no longer the target demographic of arenanet.

I started playing back in beta….bounced around servers for a few days…before finding my long time home on Tarnished Coast, which at the time was the unofficial RP server and oh the fun we had. There were parties and RP weddings….there were heated political discussions about the Queen and the Pale Tree….and frantic random RP sessions that would happen out in the world or in Reach with the friendliest of people that would stretch on into the night….there was even the Quaggan News Network…QNN for short…where a wee little Quaggan named ROovid would wibble wobble about the lands of Tyria.

And all was good for a time….and then Mega Servers happened….and we in the RP community tried our hardest…with taxis to populated instances and focused guilds….but…it just took so much effort….folks drifted away….the element of surprise wasn’t there anymore….every time you would login…you were always somewhere new….no one was familiar anymore.

I lost friends…family….people I cared about…I played for a little longer…I did the living story stuff…but even the lore began to fall short of what I knew could be written…but wasn’t….finally I logged in a few weeks ago…told my usual holiday story “How Quaggan Saved CoOOoOristmas” in mapchat…got reported by mostly everyone…and saw that no one on my massive list of contacts was on….I went to Reach….I vented…I ranted…and raved to some ANET staff member….of the loss I felt and the hatred that burned within me for those that stripped my family away from me…I logged out…the next living story update came….suddenly I was only able download at 3 KB/s…instead of the 3 MB/s that my connection was capable of….took that as a sign…and now I sit here writing this post on a saturday morning…wondering if any of it even mattered at all, all that time….

So I’m saying goodbye, I’m not the type of person that ANET is building their game for and I don’t think that they ever considered that roleplayers would take to their game with such passion and joy….they didn’t know what to do….they had to make a game that made money…so what if a few people left…there would always be others to replace them.

So it goes.

That’s it from me, this is is ROovid the Quaggan of The Quaggan News Network wishing you all a very CoOoOOo day fillled with many fishies and coOOokies and hugs…mellaggan and melandru bless you all….safe paths, dream well…

Be good to each other