Hi Fudd, to be honest I expected Green to quit much earlier. Please link my post in that DFO forum so Green sees what I write below. This is something that everyone who plays DFO should read, in my opinion at least. Thanks.
DFO is a game, something which we should all play for fun because games should be fun, and this is directed not just at Green but at everyone who plays DFO. When you change your mindset from “lets do this for fun” to “I have to rush to my computer and burn this FP bar today and use 5 tower invites and run 3 outer dungeons times x amount of characters” it’s no longer a game that you play for fun. This is called work, something most people do because it will make them $$$ in the long run. Simply put, play to have fun, feel better, relax, etc. Don’t stress out. For people whose time is limited, just focus on one PvE character and one PvP character. I remember you used to play for fun Green and how much fun you had, but this recent year you seem stressed out. Perhaps the old Green may one day return.
I have read Green’s post, and I agree. This is the nature and direction that these games take. How can you add little content but keep players busy? Force them to grind. The thing is though, it is PvP and not PvE that’s keeping DnF alive for about a decade (this is based on my friends, I don’t play DnF). Regardless how difficult any dungeon may be, you can break any dungeon down into a series of steps in order to surpass it and then just grind it. Unlike PvE, humans can think and adapt, therefore PvP is something that can keep us all interested and this was your main attachment Green. I still remember what you told me, “I want to be the best witch.” When I asked if you wanted to be the best PvPer on DFO, you said “the entire planet.” It is really sad to see you abandon that journey. No offense to the guild leader of FL, but from what I saw, most of the witches there look up to you and you’re pretty much the glue that holds that guild together. I can’t imagine (read “don’t want to imagine”) what their reaction to your quitting post may be.
I really hope you really aren’t leaving. DFO doesn’t have to be work. If I look at DFO from your perspective, it really isn’t worth playing because it’s too much work if you want to be theoretically perfect. There are things that turn the game into work that I think aren’t worth doing and can and should be skipped:
- Terra Grind: terrible at PvE and banned at my tournaments (current league rules but all legacy/pink banned).
- Chronicle 1 Grind: banned in PvP and get carried at Outer and wear anything for outer defense/exorcism until you can carry yourself/others or you can choose to just wear a set and focus on upgraded weapon to easy non-outer dungeons.
- Chronicle 2 Grind: banned in PvP, mostly needed due to outer defense/exorcism only if you want to grind outer.
If you can put those aside, when you log on you won’t feel stressed out like you’re about to work and spend most of your time in Seria room. You’re free to do whatever you want. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want. If you want to PvP then go and PvP. If you want to help someone with a difficult run then you can do that but you don’t have to kill your entire FP bar for someone. My witch and spitfire are the worst of my 30+ characters but I don’t force people to rush me and they shouldn’t force themselves either. I’ll ask for help once in a while but you don’t have to say yes all the time. The old Green used to PvP often but I haven’t seen you in PvP for so long in neither Expert nor Practice. I was surprised I haven’t ran into you in PvP not even once with my Ranger nor Female Spit.
So if you’re reading this. Don’t really quit. If I was a mod on that DFO Source forum I would just ban everyone asking you for free stuff. How disrespectful. So yea. I’m just typing all of this off the top of my head and don’t know what else to say. Don’t really quit. Don’t stress yourself out. Have fun. You can help others but don’t turn yourself into a slave. I hope that maybe you will still be around, even if infrequent, in the future.
While you may have put your journey to being the best witch on the planet on hold, you are a player worthy of the ElderGOD Wall of Text.