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McCormick don’t blame you and please post the names of the games you enjoy playing before/if you disappear completely.

Community and forums best thing about PE/EU for sure although I did enjoy playing more before I discovered the forums (that was like discovering Santa wasn’t real).

EU now seems like it’s been taken over by evil Zombies who have killed the fantastic PE staff and destroyed all their work.

*drama ahead* sounds like it should have its own icon or graphic. If only there was a talented, creative graphics guy around who could make such a thing. ;)

 

Finally! Welcome to the club McCormick. I sold out four years ago. It was kinda salvation and enabled me to buy some impressive RL items. Among others this babe:

 

Yep, its a tragedy. It was once my chance to escape from my RL depressions. With all the community. Alas, its gone ...
Probably you should follow McCormick. I assume you still own a lot of worthy items. Sell them and check your account!

 

Let me guess? You did start up a Pond project didn't you? SEE I told you it would help :)

 

If the ICO fiasco does indeed turn out to be an embarrassing flop, and it’s certainly looking that way, it does beg the question for MindArk ‘what next?’.

But maybe there will be a last minute clamour to buy Deeptokens so that the thousands cashing out can get their money back quicker and before it runs out? ;)

 

Hehe, that was at our courtyard, 10 meters away from the garage :-) And it was the day when the very stylish dented Rimowa suitcase arrived. Was for sure worth to have a beer.

I have to admit that I prefer this one with 160 hp meanwhile

Unfortunately I didn't get enough money back from MA.

 

Haha literally NOTHING gets past you does it Mr McC? :D Observant to the end :D

Well it's sad to see you so deflated but hope you will stick around here and keep popping in as we all do. I think we all (or at least the remainers) need this place. It feels like the old people's home of Entropia. A place where we come and claim everything was better in the old days.

TBH though I think you need a break from caring about Entropia. Indeed you are right, there is a lot of other stuff out there, lots of great games not even the old ones but a ton of creativity and awesomeness going on. We are very lucky that games became what they are today. Tons in the past, tons in the present.

I always remember as a kid when games got to White Label and were re released at half price. For a long time though these games were shit compared to the latest whizzy new graphics but eventually there came a time, not long after every game became 3d more or less, where there wasn't much difference between this year's game and last year's game to the point that now it is this decade's game vs last decade's game. Heck it doesn't even matter if the game isn't 3d anymore. Many indie hits have proven this over and over.

Sure the big whizzy graphics games still have their place but I can't help feeling it isn't so much now about the graphics but more about the content or the refinement of the game play. i.e. how long is the game, is it using mocap and actors, how polished is it and so on.

Heck I mean I'm spending most of my gaming time replaying the (now with voice acting) PC release of 999 (Released with VLR as Nonary Games) and loving it - even though I played it already but the voices really add something - defo looking forward to replaying VLR after. Other than that I'm playing Phoenix Wright 15 million or whatever number they are on now on 3DS with a couple more similar games waiting in line on there too.

When time allows I'll get to other things, I have other stuff waiting in line or part started. Several graphic adventures and 3 tomb raider games to mention a few. At some point I will properly do Planet Explorers too. But yeh there is so much out there to enjoy now so cheap and so easily, like how Jamira inspired me to start learning CAD. All these things are fun and valuable and take up the times. So why waste on a thing that only upsets you? Take a break, it will be there later when you want to come back and see how far the ship has sunk.

There is one thing though... if you go on a MMO hunt let me know what you find. I think you may have done this before and found similar to me that somehow there just isn't anything like the first one. Well maybe this was my experience. I do wander if it wasn't the place but the time. We can't go back. I can never re-live that summer where I read all the Gate magazines and got excited about the CK highwaymen holding up the PVP3 zone. This is all gone. The times have changed. Back then games were still fewer and not so many choices, there was no netflix or social media or youtube or smart phones. People were more invested back then, now they are not. If it isn't right, you can drop it for the next thing. I hear even that this is half the problem with those dating app things too, people treat other people like something you can swipe out of your life and forget.

Loyalty and dedication to games now has become a rarer thing. Elite has it and no doubt other things do too. This is likely why poeple don't stop and chat in the wilderness of Eudoria any more. When I do talk to people now I get the impression they think I'm a freak. Like the crazy person in the tube train that tries to strike up a conversation :D

But yeh MMO's I was liking what I saw of Wildstar actually bit admit in typical Wistrel style I barely made it out of the first room. Same with The secret world, never made it past training although I liked what I saw. Somehow though that draw wasn't there. I guess I felt like someone reading a book with a thousand people sitting next to me reading the same book. We were all getting the same experience but none of us were getting it together. With Entropia it felt like we were in the story and could talk to each other. In fact my first day in Entropia I don't think I will ever forget. Someone came and talked to me almost the moment I arrived.

Anyhow yeh I yabber on. Stay in contact McCormmick. You'll always be a total legend to me. Lets take a back seat now and see how this play finishes up but take some time to smell the roses now.

Wistrel

PS read Ready Player One if you didn't already.

 

Tbh, i'm happy that i'm gone from EU, ofc also still everything inside there, might start to slowly sell the crap, and leave it forever.
And indeed there is alot more then only EU.
I found my new thing also like 7 months ago.
After playing guitar hero, and phase shift for hours and hours, few years back, I finally bought a guitar and a second one 2 months later. (couldn't get used to the fake feeling of the other 2 games)
And omg i'm so happy I did, if I only would have known long ago that I would love it that much.

Anyway, not much of a talker here.
I also will have a look ofc on the forums now and then, but it will get less and less for sure.

Have a good one everyone.

 

Weird thought.... I wonder if Marco ever looks in on the forums or posts (probably under a hidden ID). Are they among us...?

 

I hope I do. 'Tis hard to be sure, but I do my best.

 

CU in 1.5 - 3 years when you log in again. ;)

 

Good Luck Mc Cormick.

 

Here is my ultimate goodbye picture. Somewhere at the east coast of Arkadia if I remember right. Bye EU. I once loved you ...