For those of you who pay any attention my past posts, you'll know that I've mentioned quitting before. Then... as time goes on I find myself back in RV and RS. Well... I'm leaving RS again, and this time I believe I won't return. Typically when I would quit for a period of time, some friends of mine would get me into another game. Somehow I'd always come back to RS.
The last time I left, I took up a little WoW. I have to say that the game play was much more fun than RS. It was no where near as repetitive, and training on monsters was actually a lot of fun for me. I played on a pvp server, which always kept you on the lookout for members of the other faction (horde in my case). I got quite good at tracking down horde and killing them. Many times I would even kill two or even three at one time. Other times I would get killed by a few horde; they would then camp my body and kill me every time I respawned. This was actually fun for me because it presented me with a challenge. Eventually, I started to lack a desire to play WoW. If you don't get into a nice guild early on, you will find that doing instances and other group activities can be quite frustrating. Leveling up in WoW is extremely easy, and you can be level 70 (the highest level) in a couple months pretty easily. This was a problem in my eyes. Level 70 was the most common level in the game. I started to wonder what the point of continuing would be, since I'd just be competing with about half of the WoW population.
Through my level 30s and 40s, I mined a good bit of ores for money. I started getting bored with my character once I got into the 50s, so I made a twink. Basically a twink is someone that is much stronger than most people his or her level. Using a decent chunk of money (usually from a player's main) the player buys the best possible gear and enchantments for a certain level (usually 19 and 29, sometimes 39 or 49). These characters are used to go into the battlegrounds and pretty much kill everyone in their paths. The battlegrounds are broken into groups by levels... 10-19, 20-29, and so on. I made a level 29 twink rogue and had tons of fun with it. Since Alliance sucks at pretty much everything, Horde teams were usually much better in the battlegrounds. This meant my challenge wasn't to try to kill as many people as possible, but to stop the other team from winning. With a twink, killing people is very easy. However, causing the other team to lose with very little help from your own can be quite difficult but enjoyable. Even though this character was an awesome experience... I eventually lost a desire to play it as well. While WoW is fun to play, I feel it lacks enough interactions between players.
If I could pay $5 a month to just play my twink, I would. I don't like how things look at a higher level without a guild, so doing nothing but battlegrounds is quite alright with me. As far as I'm concerned, it isn't enough for me to pay $15 a month. As my interest in WoW diminished, I logged on my defense pure once in a while. When I made the decision to stop playing WoW, I came back to RS with a new interest in the game. I was excited about trying to get 70 defense on my little pure. I'm not sure what it is, but something about giving a low level character attributes of a much higher level appeals to me. I've made a variety of pures in RS, I had a blast in WoW on my 29 twink, and I've even played a couple other games where I made a very nice low level.
Upon returning... I soon discover what will, in my eyes, tear RS to pieces. No more staking. No more pking. No more trading. All methods I used to make a bit of money were pretty much ruined with the advent of the GE. I didn't pay a lot of attention to these updates at first, since I was busy chopping up the exp I needed for 70 defense. Once I gained the level, it all started to hit me at once. The things Jagex took out of the game were some of the things I enjoyed most about it. A good friend of mine started playing again not long after I did, but on a new character. I could do nothing to help him out. I eventually found myself wanting to give things away like three times a day, but I couldn't. Just recently, Deathninj666 became a member for the very first time. All I could do was say something like "Yay" or "Congrats".
After 6 years (or however long it's been) I think I've actually started getting bored of these same skills. A new one came out today, but I don't think it'd be one I would like a whole lot. I even heard someone in RV CC mention it was like runecrafting, herblore, and construction combined... three skills I don't like very much.
One thing that's always kept me willing to play was to log in and see friends online. The problem is that pretty much all of my close friends don't play anymore. Most people on my friend's list don't even talk to me. They'll respond when I say "hello", but only out of politeness. I've also been a little annoyed recently with some people in RV CC. I understand that people like to be goofy and stuff at times, but certain people displayed an amount of sarcasm that would make me leave the channel.
When I play RS, I don't make a list of Pro's and Con's to decide if I should continue. I've always just played because I've enjoyed it. I'm not extremely angry with any person or update. It just seems that each thing just adds to this feeling of despair that I have while playing RS. As time progresses, this dark feeling just seems to build up. It's almost as if it were a time bomb so-to-say... and today it went off. I decided that since I was getting bored with skills and such, I'd try a few quests. I did the Shilo Village one up to the point where I had to kill the final boss. It turns out that I can't kill it fast enough before it just disappears. I then tried the cat quest that gives you the Amulet of Catspeak. I got to the final boss again... but this time my internet went out. I got back and found myself in Lumbridge. At that instant I decided to quit.
I lost a little over 1m, but that's not why I decided to quit. It seems like the darkness I described was a feeling of frustration over missing how the game used to be. When I think back through the time I've been playing, I can honestly say that I enjoyed the game much more as time rewinds into the past. Jagex has had some problems, and they did what they had to in order to fix them. As a result, they killed the Runescape I had grown attached to.
Now that I've rambled on for a bit, I hope that I have explained well enough why I choose to stop playing RS. Inevitably, not playing RS will greatly diminish my activity on RV. I don't think too many people will be disappointed though, as I have never really been close but to a couple people.
As for what I'll do with this extra time, I'll have to see. I'd say that I can spend more time studying, but after examining my life, I know this is probably not true. Maybe I'll pick up an instrument or a foreign language.
I'd like to say "Thank You" to Rune Village and all the RVers who have made my time here a good one. I've looked at a few other fan sites over the years, but the community in this one blows them all away. Thank you for your answers, advice, generosities, and friendships. To those of you that talk to me in RS, good-bye. As for the rest of you...
Until we meet again...
Supremehitta (aka Klepto Fury)
