What depresses me is how many of my friends have quit. How many are left. And the ones who are left 99% of them have degraded into an EQish existence. (Kill get xp repeat)
Everybody likes to shout **** like "I've been around since launch!" and "Oh the sky is falling!".
My prediction?
In truth, I have only the knowledge of what I've seen to tell me about the future.
The departments that ours has always been in contact with, and all the LTCs that had "big plans" for us and Rubi-Ka, just disappeared about the same time all this **** started hitting the fan.
No word.
Just gone.
And the continuing lame-ass letters from fc that they leave like feces on the login screen about "Everythings fine nothings wrong! Please give us accounts!" couldn't fool a 5 year old.
AO is like a politician. They made big promises to get people to accept them, we all bought in, and now that they can't make good on their promises, they're looking for copouts. Ways of weaseling out of the agreement and making people forget so they'll quit screaming for their head.
This is what's going to happen. As far as being on the Omni side of things, I know of roughly 4 remaining orgs that at one time were the kings of their time and had their hands in the story for a brief time, and now find themselves hanging by a thread. Those orgs are of course, Omni-Pol, Omni-AF, Red-Tape/Omni-Admin, and Division 9. Possibly Lucifer's Dawn if you want to make that 5. Boci has tried hard.
Alot of good departments havn't been able to survive the huge bombshell that devastated the planet when everybody initially figured out wtf was going on in reality.
These last remaining denizens of the RP world will stay they way they are hopefully and not collapse, kind of like statues from a fallen kingdom. But the heart of the game will eventually decay into a cold level-based existence.
The sad truth is that leaders aren't wanting to lie to their members, and members are refusing to buy into BS. People notice when the green names they work with disappear and don't make deadlines and dates.
I myself have moved past the stages where you smile through it, you deny it, you don't let others slander your interest, and then one day you decide that your relationship is a farce because the love that you have for this thing is totally unrequited.
The stage that I'm at is one of the need to hear FC be completely honest for once in the life of this game and say what the **** is going on.
I think that we're all entitled that.
I want to know as soon as possible before i waste one more payment if they're going to continue to scapegoat out of the fact that they're totally incompetant and that they do infact plan to just let the game decay into EQ.
Yes.
I think that we all deserve that.
When I say we, I mean those that worked their asses off in the past, and those that are doing it right now to keep a few pieces of the Titanic afloat.
I want a ****ing email in my box in two hours saying either "We're sorry, we realize that we're completely full of it and will no longer advertise on the box of our product that there is a story that players can interact with."
or
"Things have been rough but we're planning something nice. True we are idiots for keeping you all in the dark but here we are now."
That's what I want. Maybe hoping for a real place in a fake world was an unobtainable goal, but a letter of apology i believe is something to look forward to.
-Ted Shakkles Ganes.
President Omni-AF.