Retirement

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

Sasha75!! hush!! Respect your elder!!
Now back to UO.

Morgana, UO is a drug.... one you will find has simular cravings as irl stuff.. oh i think we all can walk away for a week or two, even a few months, perhaps some can stand a few years. But my friend UO craving will still be there and so will the game if WE have anything to say about it.
Enjoy a vacation, read a few good books, watch tv, enjoy life. I expect you back and UO will be here for you.

Btw.... I'll be the last one out the door in UO when the lights get turned off and then I wont go quietly!!!!

Oh, I've "quit" UO before. I quit after losing everything to a hacker. I quit after 99% of the PoV left the game due to Trammel. I quit once because I got guard whacked due to a glitch. I even quit because I got banned for something I didn't even have a hand in (thanks Sexecutioner...we will ALWAYS remember you)....but every single time, something, someone, brought me back.

It's different this time. I hate to spill a bunch of personal info here, but I have lost some good friends in UO. I could always handle the people that left of their own accord...but those that have departed this mortal plane...I cannot just forget them.

As it is, UO brings me nothing but painful memories...memories of those that left, memories of those that died, and memories of times that cannot be re-created. Even if the devs would roll UO back to its Origins (pun intended), these days, I question if I could even play it. There have been too many lives touched, too many people I have known, and too many lives lost.

I didn't want to get into this, but a good friend reminded me that I had an obligation to live up to what I had built. I don't take that lightly. PoV was an institution on Atlantic, and it tears me apart to abandon it...but at the same time, I cannot log into this game to the lost memories of those that I remember.

My leaving this game was supposed to be the easy way out. It turns out, it isn't. It is indeed like a drug...but drugs have negative side effects.

I just need to disconnect from it. I just need to disconnect from the memories.

But I can't.

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

yes, my queen! I will always remember you and the ooold claaassic UO game. Hail to the queen!!
Go get a life and... a real job You are old dull past.

I'll miss you most of all Sasha!!

 

[Trebr Drab]

Sasha75!! hush!! Respect your elder!!
Now back to UO.

Morgana, UO is a drug.... one you will find has simular cravings as irl stuff.. oh i think we all can walk away for a week or two, even a few months, perhaps some can stand a few years. But my friend UO craving will still be there and so will the game if WE have anything to say about it.
Enjoy a vacation, read a few good books, watch tv, enjoy life. I expect you back and UO will be here for you.

Btw.... I'll be the last one out the door in UO when the lights get turned off and then I wont go quietly!!!!

Oh, I've "quit" UO before. I quit after losing everything to a hacker. I quit after 99% of the PoV left the game due to Trammel. I quit once because I got guard whacked due to a glitch. I even quit because I got banned for something I didn't even have a hand in (thanks Sexecutioner...we will ALWAYS remember you)....but every single time, something, someone, brought me back.

It's different this time. I hate to spill a bunch of personal info here, but I have lost some good friends in UO. I could always handle the people that left of their own accord...but those that have departed this mortal plane...I cannot just forget them.

As it is, UO brings me nothing but painful memories...memories of those that left, memories of those that died, and memories of times that cannot be re-created. Even if the devs would roll UO back to its Origins (pun intended), these days, I question if I could even play it. There have been too many lives touched, too many people I have known, and too many lives lost.

I didn't want to get into this, but a good friend reminded me that I had an obligation to live up to what I had built. I don't take that lightly. PoV was an institution on Atlantic, and it tears me apart to abandon it...but at the same time, I cannot log into this game to the lost memories of those that I remember.

My leaving this game was supposed to be the easy way out. It turns out, it isn't. It is indeed like a drug...but drugs have negative side effects.

I just need to disconnect from it. I just need to disconnect from the memories.

But I can't.

You know, some people like to fish. They spend hours making flies, spend quite a bit on reels and rods, have the entire assortment of proper wear for any weather. They plan trips around it, they enter tournaments, watch TV shows about it, read magazines they've subscribed to. They have a passion for fishing and all it entails.

You can choose many different hobbies, and take a long look at them and what people do with their hobbies.
And all the while, loved ones have passed, things have happened. Life goes on. There's the good and the bad. But life goes on.

Achilles:

"I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."​

-Homer (The Iliad)

So, do what you want to do. Enjoy whatever it is. But don't feel like whatever your choice is is a bad choice. Nothing else will change, whatever you choose. But remember too, equally, that...nothing else will change, no matter what you do.

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

You know, some people like to fish. They spend hours making flies, spend quite a bit on reels and rods, have the entire assortment of proper wear for any weather. They plan trips around it, they enter tournaments, watch TV shows about it, read magazines they've subscribed to. They have a passion for fishing and all it entails.

You can choose many different hobbies, and take a long look at them and what people do with their hobbies.
And all the while, loved ones have passed, things have happened. Life goes on. There's the good and the bad. But life goes on.

Achilles:

"I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."​

-Homer (The Iliad)

So, do what you want to do. Enjoy whatever it is. But don't feel like whatever your choice is is a bad choice. Nothing else will change, whatever you choose. But remember too, equally, that...nothing else will change, no matter what you do.

Thank you. I needed that. Because some people love to fish, and others don't, but there are still others that loved to fish when they fished with someone they loved...and after that loved one passed on, fishing no longer brought them joy...because it reminded them of things that were lost.

 

[olduofan]

Honestly I wish this game well and I also wish I wasn't so attached/hooked/invested in it. I cant bring myself to pull the plug even though I only play at most 3 to 4 months out of the year and every year less and less it seems. I guess the fantasy is gone but the dream lives on...

I will admit I'm much happier when I'm not playing not sure why I am truly at a lost on this

I really hope you live your real life to its fullest Morgana LeFay, so so much more much more out there.

You will be missed and you will be a part of Sosaria forever..

As life has gone on so shall Ultima Online...

 

[Ahuaeyjnkxs]

Do not forget the life-form... left alone it will kill many, many more.