2010-06-03, 02:12 AM
I still do play actively, but that's probably only because I just came back in mid-December after being forced to quit due to IRL issues shortly after 4th job was released. During those two years away from the game, I still wanted to come back and become a Ranger - and now I'm just two levels away from achieving that goal. As such, I still remained somewhat active in the community during those two years, as the local MSEAers know.
After I become a Ranger (hopefully later this week) though... I'm not sure what I'm going to do next. Sure, I've managed to avoid the majority of problems and terrible resolutions (especially the hacking spree and the Chaos Scroll bannings), but as far as future content goes, there's little that I'm looking forward to in the future. I became heavily disillusioned when I found out that the three most critical Evan skills would require Cash Shop skillbooks. That's not mentioning that the community is nothing like what it was 2 years ago - my IRL friends and cousins no longer play MS, I can't help but feel that the community is far more materialistic than before, the economy is terrible, and now you have the issues of leeching/2x family stuff taking away a lot of the feeling of achievement.
That's not even counting that last month, I've personally witnessed someone talking to a person in a guild, asking him if a certain guild member was online and could DC hack someone. That really destroyed most of my faith in the MS community, because if a practice like that is now considered acceptable within some guilds, at what point would stuff like this be considered going too far?
After I become a Ranger (hopefully later this week) though... I'm not sure what I'm going to do next. Sure, I've managed to avoid the majority of problems and terrible resolutions (especially the hacking spree and the Chaos Scroll bannings), but as far as future content goes, there's little that I'm looking forward to in the future. I became heavily disillusioned when I found out that the three most critical Evan skills would require Cash Shop skillbooks. That's not mentioning that the community is nothing like what it was 2 years ago - my IRL friends and cousins no longer play MS, I can't help but feel that the community is far more materialistic than before, the economy is terrible, and now you have the issues of leeching/2x family stuff taking away a lot of the feeling of achievement.
That's not even counting that last month, I've personally witnessed someone talking to a person in a guild, asking him if a certain guild member was online and could DC hack someone. That really destroyed most of my faith in the MS community, because if a practice like that is now considered acceptable within some guilds, at what point would stuff like this be considered going too far?