<Drunken Ramble>
After all the years playing this game I still love playing UO. I guess love is a too strong word, its less depressing than my real life. In UO I dont have to worryabout my exwife, never being able to see my kid again, being broke, the economy etc.
But thats not what this is all about. Why do you people still play this game? Family?
Friends?
Nostalgia?
Or do you really enjoy the content?anyone?
The other day I was really thinking about it and I realised UO, for me anyways, is just like drugs.
Im still chasing the high I got from this game back in the T2A era. That first "buzz" just never comes back. I will never forget mining and running from reds, the sense of accomplishment from killing something harder than a mongbat for the first time, my first house, being in a player run city, being a PART of an event, being a real part of the economy, and hella more. Just like the junkies on the street I am always chasing those first highs. No matter how much I play it never comes to me. No matter how much pixel crack I assemble its just not the same. But...im still here.
I asked my brother (Lord Benjamen(PWZ)- Napa Valley) this same question and he said "I never got this involved before in this part of the game" I can understand that.
So many things from this game are dead to me. PvP is a joke. Housing is too cheap. The economy is... artificial. The dozen or so PPL I knew in RL that played are gone. I still play. I will be here until the lights go out.
</Ramble>
After all the years playing this game I still love playing UO. I guess love is a too strong word, its less depressing than my real life. In UO I dont have to worryabout my exwife, never being able to see my kid again, being broke, the economy etc.
But thats not what this is all about. Why do you people still play this game? Family?
Friends?
Nostalgia?
Or do you really enjoy the content?anyone?
The other day I was really thinking about it and I realised UO, for me anyways, is just like drugs.
Im still chasing the high I got from this game back in the T2A era. That first "buzz" just never comes back. I will never forget mining and running from reds, the sense of accomplishment from killing something harder than a mongbat for the first time, my first house, being in a player run city, being a PART of an event, being a real part of the economy, and hella more. Just like the junkies on the street I am always chasing those first highs. No matter how much I play it never comes to me. No matter how much pixel crack I assemble its just not the same. But...im still here.
I asked my brother (Lord Benjamen(PWZ)- Napa Valley) this same question and he said "I never got this involved before in this part of the game" I can understand that.
So many things from this game are dead to me. PvP is a joke. Housing is too cheap. The economy is... artificial. The dozen or so PPL I knew in RL that played are gone. I still play. I will be here until the lights go out.
</Ramble>