What made you leave GemStone?

[nogo]

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[Kuyuk]

GM's made me leave, their biased treatment and stupid asshattery in general..

to be a GM, you should be fair, and equal...which they arent.. so I stopped paying their company :)

[Jahira]

I leave because I spend too much time on GS.

I come back when I am bored and need some entertainment.

I leave because I spend too much time on GS.....and that is the cycle

[diethx]

I leave because I get bored and realize the game will never be how it was 10 years ago, and I don't want to pay for how it is now.

I come back because I get nostalgic for the way it was 10 years ago, and even though I know it'll never be that way again, and I know i'll get bored again within a few months or a couple of years, I come back anyway. I'll probably do this until GS comes to an end, heh.

[MotleyCrew]

Mostly no one ever truly leaves...mostly

[GS4_HappyTimez]

I will never abandon GS. GS is basically my life.

[diethx]

I will never abandon GS. GS is basically my life.

THAT'S SO TRUE

[Some Rogue]

I leave because I get bored and realize the game will never be how it was 10 years ago, and I don't want to pay for how it is now.

I come back because I get nostalgic for the way it was 10 years ago, and even though I know it'll never be that way again, and I know i'll get bored again within a few months or a couple of years, I come back anyway. I'll probably do this until GS comes to an end, heh.

Ditto.

My accounts are still open now but I am pretty much on a break. WoW has consumed my soul again. :(

[Parkbandit]

Ditto.

My accounts are still open now but I am pretty much on a break. WoW has consumed my soul again. :(

"My evil plan is almost complete. Now deliver Dar to me and together we shall turn him."

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[Anferis]

Can we just go to the inn and cyber instead?

He never cybered me. I cried. Quit game.

Now I play L4D all the time.

[Jorddyn]

Boredom, stupidity.

The only reason I could see going back is to finish LM, but I hear it's a huge grind.

[Some Rogue]

The only reason I could see going back is to finish LM, but I hear it's a huge grind.

Yeah, that's another reason I got fed up. The guild, hunting, basically everything is just a grind that gets old.

[Deathravin]

The grind.

I can only not feel like I'm completely stagnant if I script hunt.
Only problem is, I'm not 16 anymore with ample time to create, maintain and improve upon a script. Hell I'm not even 25 with a mindless job anymore with ample time to script.

[Some Rogue]

The grind.

I can only not feel like I'm completely stagnant if I script hunt.
Only problem is, I'm not 16 anymore with ample time to create, maintain and improve upon a script. Hell I'm not even 25 with a mindless job anymore with ample time to script.

And who really wants to pay to let a game play itself?

[Sean of the Thread]

Sorc guild was pissing me off. Dipshits were pissing me off (Atreau etc) which led to GMs pissing me off with their power tripping.

Oh and Tsin was annoyingly room hogging outside OTF. I gotta find the logs of us breaking his sanc and open imploding a room with 50 boxes.

Rofl good times.

[Fallen]

I felt like GS was more a full time job/commitment rather than a game. I felt guilty whenever I wasn't playing, or staying updated on the boards. Hell, I read both boards compulsively for a time from home/work. I was unable to simply log in and "play". I even felt guilty if I just grinded levels. The other side of it was I wasn't pursuing any life goals, such as certifications and college education. I wasn't staying on top of my health/fitness. I was basically neglecting most aspects of my life outside of GS. Accounts are still open, and I still pop in every now and then. I will eventually return, though not until I am in school and am generally happy with my career/education.

[Nieninque]

I got bored.

[MotleyCrew]

Yeah, that's another reason I got fed up. The guild, hunting, basically everything is just a grind that gets old.

Thats why I try and go to MHO and CHE run events. Gives me a break from the routine, much less annoying as there isn't a merchant for people to flock to and fall over themselves kissing ass. And, something different to just have fun.



Oh and Tsin was annoyingly room hogging outside OTF. I gotta find the logs of us breaking his sanc and open imploding a room with 50 boxes.

Rofl good times.

Hasn't Tsin left? I had heard he did, and haven't seen him or his crew at events for a while.

[DeV]

World of Warcraft pretty much has me wrapped around it's pinky.

When that becomes mundane, I get tempted to go back to GS. That usually only lasts about a week at the most, and it's right back to WoW again. GS lost it's luster for me a long time ago when I realized that capping my character would mean approaching the game as if it were a second full time job.

[Sean of the Thread]

Thats why I try and go to MHO and CHE run events. Gives me a break from the routine, much less annoying as there isn't a merchant for people to flock to and fall over themselves kissing ass. And, something different to just have fun.



Hasn't Tsin left? I had heard he did, and haven't seen him or his crew at events for a while.


Dunno I haven't played in a few years.

[Some Rogue]

Yeah, my highest GS character is 70...still a long way from cap. After many years.

In WoW, my rogue is 78. Then I have 3 other 70's to bring to 80 and then a DK to level up. All of which can be legitimately done in a couple months.

[SpiffyJr]

Yeah, my highest GS character is 70...still a long way from cap. After many years.

In WoW, my rogue is 78. Then I have 3 other 70's to bring to 80 and then a DK to level up. All of which can be legitimately done in a couple months.

After 14 years of Gemstone I had a level 32 Bard (I recently sold) and a 31 Wizard. The Bard was my highest character and only because I script hunted him from 20 to 32 in a little over a week. It was by far the most gratifying experience Gemstone has ever given me.

Oh, and L4D FTW!

[Numbers]

I got bored out of my mind. Didn't like the direction they were taking Sorcerers, turning them into pack mules in order to use any of their high level mediocre spells. Didn't like the fact that it took years and years for them to get fucking anything done. Didn't like how inept the management was. Didn't like how much of a grind everything was. Was downright insulted when Simu claimed their gaming motto was "less tedium, more fun".

My account has been closed for about a year now. I have no plans whatsoever to return.

[Augie]

First and foremost, I left because I had a baby.

I also realized that I had 4 premium accounts and was paying way too much money to be self-contained in the game. There was no real sense of fun. I just logged in half the time and sat on psinet and just chatted.

When I was in the Mentors, it seemed like all we were doing was wasting time trying to 'mentor' new people because there never were true newbies. Sure, I had a blast doing all of the other events we did...but true newbies were few and far between.

Plus, a lot of my friends stopped playing. One of the main reasons I had kept playing was because Lunatick and I used to have so much fun running around together and then he left. After that, things got boring. Now we run around in World of Warcraft together lol.

The only reason I will come back is to finish selling off stuff I never sold the first time around.

One thing I am grateful for is all of the friendships I've made playing this game.

[War Angel]

I go through phases, where I log in and spend hours trying to acomplish something, (level goal, complete a character outfit, paid event) and afterwards is this huge .... nothing that follows. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone else, but I log in, spell up, go on one hunt and then ... stare at nothing. Can't quite drag myself to hunt, wander to populated areas and just watch everyone else, just feel totally uninspired. So I cancel my account, and then immediately following that, something cool happens in game, dragging me back briefly to start the cycle again.

I think I play 3 months, take 2 off, play 3 months, take 2 off ... ect.

I haven't actually ever left Gemstone, but I have existed without it taking up my free time off and on for the past 12 years.

[TheEschaton]

My accounts have been frozen for a year, about the time I've been playing WoW. I would quit prior to that, but keep my accounts open, and never for more than a month or two. If I ever reactivate, it'll be to sell all my stuff.

I should get on that, I guess - the market is already pretty shitty in terms of silvers sales, as well as character sales, I imagine.

-TheE-

[Poppatrunk]

For me it was the grind, forging, crafting, all the guild skills, if you don't know how to scipt you basically can't do any those things and I can't fucking script!

It's not so much that I'm mad about that but basically with the format in place it encouraged people to be afk and script for 180 hours or whatever it takes to master a forging skill. This hurts a game where it's greatest strength imo is player to player interation.

Plus it just seems with the way Simu structured it's pricing accompiend by it's complete lack any sort of adversiting I could see the player base gradually decline with no new blood coming in.

Certain players began to horde top end items, the econemy was shot too shit with too much silver around and simu really didn't seem to care about basic players. I felt $30.00 for premium account was nuts for a text mud and don't even get me started on plat.

Plus GS3 grew a side busiess for the players who's only intent was to attend every paid event, kiss every gm's ass, and do whatever possible to obtain weapons/armors etc to be sold for rl money which also hurt the game.

With all that said I think the main reason I left is I grew up. I started playing when I was 12?, 13? It's a lot easier at that age to read a single room desciption and have your imagination run wild as I got older it just seemed to lose it's magic and became about the grind.

I hope it doesnt die though.
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[AnticorRifling]

WoW.

[Widgets]

First and foremost, I left because I had a baby.

I also realized that I had 4 premium accounts and was paying way too much money to be self-contained in the game. There was no real sense of fun. I just logged in half the time and sat on psinet and just chatted.

When I was in the Mentors, it seemed like all we were doing was wasting time trying to 'mentor' new people because there never were true newbies. Sure, I had a blast doing all of the other events we did...but true newbies were few and far between.

Plus, a lot of my friends stopped playing. One of the main reasons I had kept playing was because Lunatick and I used to have so much fun running around together and then he left. After that, things got boring. Now we run around in World of Warcraft together lol.

The only reason I will come back is to finish selling off stuff I never sold the first time around.

One thing I am grateful for is all of the friendships I've made playing this game.

<3 Christina

[Kuyuk]

<Sorc guild was pissing me off. Dipshits were pissing me off (Atreau etc) which led to GMs pissing me off with their power tripping.

Oh and Tsin was annoyingly room hogging outside OTF. I gotta find the logs of us breaking his sanc and open imploding a room with 50 boxes.

Rofl good times.>


Yeah, There should be a log of me doing it on the forums somewhere...

[Apathy]

I quit playing GS because I couldn't justify the amount of money they want me to pay them for such a simple game, then seeing hardly anything implemented or fixed.

I quit DR because they raped my thief guild, then reactivated earlier this year to play again only to find my thief guild was completely raped a second time, basically destroying it.

[Ignot]

Like most, I play off and on and love and hate this game. When I leave I feel good for leaving because the game was so boring and a waste of money but when I come back I get really excited like some addict and the game is really enjoyable. After going through the grind it just gets boring and I quit again. If Simu would have monthly events that are free (which they should be) then I would probably stick around longer. The only reason I like those events is because it brings most of my friends together at once and we just have a blast RPing. It annoys me that Simu charges for these events on top of a monthly subscription. I usually reactivate before my character gets purged.

[Stretch]

Gemstone has been a text version of Diablo for at least three years. Hunt five minutes, AFK 20. Then when the Adv Guild got released, it became hunt five minutes, AFK 40. Finally it became write script, run whenever at home.

95% of the people I used to play with quit by mid-2006. The ones that are active now I think I can count on one hand. I'm in my bored-of-GS phase again; I don't think I've hunted / interacted with anyone for at least two months. Whenever I logged on, I ended up just having my forging script running on my second monitor while I did work or watched YouTube vids.

Game map got too big, and not enough features were put in to keep the population from degrading.

[Ren]

I had to freeze my account at the beginning of Nov in order to add to xmas spending money. GS costs way too much.. but in normal months I justify it as part of my chosen entertainment, and do consider myself a "lifer".

So that's why I closed my account... reopening I guess will also be because of money. When I recoup from xmas, I plan to go back. I've played Odevalis for 10+ years, sad but true.. I really love the character, I don't want to sever her and GS from my pastime permanently :/

[Allereli]

I usually reactivate before my character gets purged.

hasn't there only been one character purge ever?

[LMingrone]

It gets boring after a while. It's kind of a microcosm of real life. You work to get all kinds of cool shit, and then get bored of it and wonder why you even wasted the money and did all the work in the first place.

On top of that, I bet most of us started playing as teens. Now we have jobs, family, and all kinds of other more important things to deal with. (And all kinds of other online games to play)

[Anebriated]

Quit the first time cause I wanted to spend more time away from the game so i sold my ranger to make it "permanent".

Came back cause I missed it.

Quit again cause it wasnt the same without my ranger plus most of my friends werent my level anymore so I was on my own most of the time.

[Ignot]

hasn't there only been one character purge ever?

I don't know, they always tell me you have one year before your character is gone for good. Does anyone know if this is true?

[Beguiler]

Funny enough, I've never left. But, I do admit to occasional 'vacations', though never long enough to close/hold an account. And I promised myself (and kept the promise!) that I would never neglect a family occasion for GS. They tolerate my obsession during festivals, but if we have something planned, the computer goes off. So far it works. Does it ever get boring? Mhmm. But I'm with Motley Crew, I find MHO or CHE things to get involved in, or try something different. Seems to work for me.

[Moist Happenings]

I don't know, they always tell me you have one year before your character is gone for good. Does anyone know if this is true?

I don't know for sure about the purges, but what I do know is I had a bard on my very first screen name on AOL that I want back. If not the character (who was very high level for the time), then the name. In 10 years of asking, I haven't been able to get it. I stopped writing mail to them about it years ago asking if there was a purge coming up or simply if they could delete the character so I could have the name, but every time I create a new character I type that name first just to check.

[Atlanteax]

I left because after having spent some time behind the scenes, I became rather disillusioned with future prospects.

(in regard to my position, how problematic situations/players are handled, and management and follow-through of other efforts)

[CrystalTears]

I leave because I get bored and realize the game will never be how it was 10 years ago, and I don't want to pay for how it is now.

I come back because I get nostalgic for the way it was 10 years ago, and even though I know it'll never be that way again, and I know i'll get bored again within a few months or a couple of years, I come back anyway. I'll probably do this until GS comes to an end, heh.Same for me.


I don't know, they always tell me you have one year before your character is gone for good. Does anyone know if this is true?I don't think so. The last time I quit I was gone for over two years, and all my characters were intact, even the level 1 ones.

[Warriorbird]

People I know being gone.
World too spread out.
Decline in roleplay.
Decline in actually interesting GM run quests and events (month long invasions aren't a quest, guys).
My ex.
PM shenanigans.
GM shenanigans.
Lack of tolerance for criticism.
The attempt to shoot down an idea before considering accepting it.
Feeling as though it is David Whatley's renewal income in the insurance business.
Hunting boredom.
Feeling that the fry/unfry system is boring and pointless.
Lack of ability to find anything entertaining to do while unfrying.
The decline of the black net (due to player shops and the decline of the Landing)
The decline of the Landing (due to decline of the black net and Vaalor being the dumbest newbie drop ever for years)

The last two sort of envelop each other.

[nub]

The decline of the black net (due to player shops and the decline of the Landing)

That's actually one that drove me away a couple of times too as well as...

Friends leaving
Renewed interest in other games
Bored of hunting
Treasure system
Lack of Rogue development
Tedium (I only mastered sweep and that was about 4 years ago)
Stamina system

[zhelas]

Cost of the game.
Tried WoW for 6 months.
Came back to GS.
Now since the department I worked in was Outsourced and I am unemployed.
Cost of the game may force me to leave again.

[Hai Lawd ZeeAir]

For those that left the game, why did you leave?

GMs, in particular, Andraste.



If you came back, what made you do so and how long was your break?


$imu telepathic powers? An urge to recapture my childhood/teen-ness sitting up smoking cigarettes playing a quiet text game at 3AM? The belief that, no way could she STILL be here after almost 7+ years? My old friends? (Sadly, they're all LONG gone now)

I don't know, maybe she'll leave me be, and I doubt she'll be able to figure out who I am if she's still reading here. If she did, i'm sure "Paying customer" would supercede "Continue being a cunt to this person". At least I hope it is. Her sorc casting at you=roleplaying. You killing the sorc for casting at you=OOC PVP and overreacting to the situation.

[SHAFT]

Its just so damn boring. I try to play, and I lose interest within 15 minutes. Even playing with Sorrow gets old after a while.

I'd have more interest if they had an auction coming up or something new to generate some interest.

[TheRoseLady]

I got bored, left and went to WoW. I quit WoW basically in May - now I read, watch TV etc.

GS is way overpriced, but not the reason I left.

I used to really love the merchant events and really amassed quite an inventory across several characters, but merchant events seemed to bring out the worst in me. An "event weekend" meant my husband steered clear of me, I got very little sleep and was quite irascible. Hell even my IG husband knew not to rattle my cage too much.

I can't play a text based game after having spent time with a graphic game, world's apart.

I will always be grateful that I met some really great people that remain my friends to this day, The PC is a nice way of keeping in touch.

My IG husband has my accounts for spells and stuff. He enjoys the RP aspect of the game, I learned after I left that I never really enjoyed RP.

[Apathy]

I got bored, left and went to WoW. I quit WoW basically in May - now I read, watch TV etc.
The PC is a nice way of keeping in touch.


PC > GS

Its true.

[Garnet Doyle]

WoW and Dragonrealms are better, as to why leaving.

Why coming back? It's moderately fun to wander around the old stomping grounds for a while every now and then.

[RainyDay2080]

I left for a couple years because all my old playing buddies had left. Came back because I like being able to log in whenever I want to roam around or work on characters or interact with people when I'm bored at home. WoW wasn't as fun for that because the typical players there - none of you I'm sure - are irritating twats.

RD

[Adequate Picker]

Left back in 2000. Game was not what it was when i started. Area traps nerfed. Danger...nerfed. Move to the web and AOL free disks and throw away accounts. Drop and breakage...nerfed. GMs not taking care of the long time players the way they should have been.

To be fair, i was treated better than most by the GMs. Got away with total murder....literally. Was the 2nd one in the RG right behind Bleys so that was an honor as well but just too much nerfing to the game.

Not sure yet why i came back.

[Winowyll]

I left because I was back home with my family. I used GS as an outlet to keep in touch with friends when I was away on deployments or working in the civilian sector. It trickled over when I would be home with my family and I'm still playing Gem! I can't tell you how disappointed I was in myself when my husband had to put the kids down for me. The dear man put up with me when he shouldn't have. However...I'm deployed again and I find it less expensive for me to play gem then for me to go out and spend money with friends...I also get into less trouble. Soo....I may be coming back. Not sure when. I did love a good RP. Ask anyone. Oh, I'm also writing stories as well on fanfiction. If anyone's interestest, of course, PM me.

[Souzy]

Life made me quit. GS sucked me in for a couple years. I realized it was time to quit when I would flake out on my friends just to stay home to play. Since just about all the fun ppl left and the last time I popped in to check the game out, it didn't interest me any more. Decided it wasn't worth the money. With that being said, what would a lvl 41 sorc and lvl 21 wizard go for nowadays?

[100% Wool]

zmog itz lalalalalana

hai2u

[Kayse]

I've quit on and off for years for numerous reasons. Money has always been a key reason. About 3 years ago though, I realized how stupid I was being when I would constantly be in GS and not be going out with my friends or spending time with my bf or just living life.

I took a break for about 2 years after that and eventually came back, but I rarely log on and if something comes up in RL I don't sweat it if I'm not in the game or am going to miss something.

Like most of you, I do generally get bored with it too and I end up going to WoW or some other game to keep myself entertained.

Speaking of, I think it's time to reactivate my WoW account. :)

[CrystalTears]

My last break before I returned last year was for about 2 years. It wasn't as fun as it used to be for me. Game policies and rules were pissing me off. I also ended getting caught up in WoW so there was no point in doing both.

I'm nearing the point of quitting again. I barely play. Once in a while I'll log in to heal/spellup my husband's characters but the joy isn't there. The grind bothers me for very little return. It just feels like a job again.

Funny though, I don't want to quit because I don't want to give Gan my goat pin. :lol:

I like to play online games though. So I just worry that if I quit GS, I'll be tempted to play WoW again.

[nub]

My last break before I returned last year was for about 2 years. It wasn't as fun as it used to be for me. Game policies and rules were pissing me off. I also ended getting caught up in WoW so there was no point in doing both.

I'm nearing the point of quitting again. I barely play. Once in a while I'll log in to heal/spellup my husband's characters but the joy isn't there. The grind bothers me for very little return. It just feels like a job again.

Funny though, I don't want to quit because I don't want to give Gan my goat pin. :lol:

I like to play online games though. So I just worry that if I quit GS, I'll be tempted to play WoW again.

In game husband or RL husband?

I've also found myself playing less and less. This seems to happen every time I come back to the landing, I just get bored when I go there, not sure what draws me back. I guess I think that the black net will revive again.

(I like the black net as it gave more interaction than just sitting waiting to absorb exp).

But yeah, I'll just pick up some other on-line game as well if I drop GS again.

[CrystalTears]

RL husband. We met in the game, so it's almost nostalgic for us to play together on occasion. He's enjoying the game again and I wouldn't want to up and leave when I'm sure he'd like me around.

Some people just need to STFU about WoW with me. I'm easily swayed, damnit.

[Fallen]

I left because I was back home with my family. I used GS as an outlet to keep in touch with friends when I was away on deployments or working in the civilian sector. It trickled over when I would be home with my family and I'm still playing Gem! I can't tell you how disappointed I was in myself when my husband had to put the kids down for me. The dear man put up with me when he shouldn't have. However...I'm deployed again and I find it less expensive for me to play gem then for me to go out and spend money with friends...I also get into less trouble. Soo....I may be coming back. Not sure when. I did love a good RP. Ask anyone. Oh, I'm also writing stories as well on fanfiction. If anyone's interestest, of course, PM me.

Glad to see you're still alive, Wino! You were just gone one day, heh.

[Souzy]

zmog itz lalalalalana

hai2u

I will always love you, my lil' concubine. I'm in NJ for the wk, will pass through NY on my way back home. We should do something and paint the town yellow!

[diethx]

With that being said, what would a lvl 41 sorc and lvl 21 wizard go for nowadays?

Unfortunately, not much at all. That's as truly helpful as I can be though without guessing some low number. However, I'd say $50 max for the wizard though, probably not much more for the sorc (just don't quote me, hehe).


RL husband. We met in the game, so it's almost nostalgic for us to play together on occasion. He's enjoying the game again and I wouldn't want to up and leave when I'm sure he'd like me around.

Some people just need to STFU about WoW with me. I'm easily swayed, damnit.

I'm jealous.. i've been trying to get J to start playing again for like 2 years. He's totally done done done with GS though. I know i'd have more fun if he would play with me again. :(

[CrystalTears]

I'm jealous.. i've been trying to get J to start playing again for like 2 years. He's totally done done done with GS though. I know i'd have more fun if he would play with me again. :(
What's funny (and sad) is that I'm the one who wanted to play again and he grumbled and snarled about giving money again to the evil Simu, but he eventually started up again with me. Now he's having more fun than I am. I actually only have fun when we play together, and even then we don't play that often.

[diethx]

Lucky. J is so fucking stubborn I can't get him to do it. SOOOO stubborn. Ugh. :banghead:

[ViridianAsp]

For me it's money, sometimes the game just pisses me off, is frustrating so I need a break. The tedium of trying to level/acquire skills is incredibly stupid, alchemy was a total disappointment, it's like the rogue and warrior guilds, repetitive and utterly pointless if you want to master something it takes forever. I'm all for some reality in games but GS sorta takes it to the extreme in these instances.

Now, though it's probably the decline in roleplay and in the last I don't know, six years it's gone from bad to worse. I'm considering dropping GS entirely and going to WoW.

[Stanley Burrell]

For those that left the game, why did you leave?

Couldn't get enough cyber action because Lisu is a high class ho.

[100% Wool]

I will always love you, my lil' concubine. I'm in NJ for the wk, will pass through NY on my way back home. We should do something and paint the town yellow!

om nom nom

[Timjirdos]

I don't know, they always tell me you have one year before your character is gone for good. Does anyone know if this is true?

Not always.

I had my old account from the move to the web(Mekkhazio) closed since 2002.

Reactivated in 2007-2008

I think the only purge i can remember in recent history was when they migrated from the online services to the web. but my memory isn't what it used to be, so i probably am wrong on this.

[diethx]

Now, though it's probably the decline in roleplay and in the last I don't know, six years it's gone from bad to worse. I'm considering dropping GS entirely and going to WoW.

That logic makes sense, you'll get much better RP in WoW! ;)

[Lord Orbstar]

I get bored. The first time I left for good, I sold my characters. I came back and bought my old wizard back, Orbstar. I left and sold him again. Now he and my dwarf, Forgehand, are gone forever. I miss old friends that played the game.

By the way...Warhammer online is fun for PvP. And...if anyone wants a WOW account for items here...let me know. I have 3 good ones.

The thrill of grinding up to legendary level is not for me...so when I come back, I usually buy someone elses 'toon. before I quit and sell them again. I was the owner of some "old" names and played them well. I sort of regret selling off Kraniak. Even with close to cap/cap characters, I generally haunt the landing area and just hunt/interact with people there. this game is about Roleplay and interaction for me. Plus...I cannot script and only have what I have found/downloaded on the internet.

Having said that...I am back again. Reactivated my account two days ago as premium. If you see Malaekai (95 magical rogue archer), Kakos (56 dual weild rogue migrating to sword/board lockmaster), or Syrice (41 giantwoman paladin) in game, give me a holler and lets go smash something together.

To date, I still have never hunted the rift or OTF. I suppose I will one day when I make some new friends that hunt there and can show me the ropes...carefully. I hate to decay.

[Allereli]

If you see Malaekai (95 magical rogue archer), Kakos (56 dual weild rogue migrating to sword/board lockmaster), or Syrice (41 giantwoman paladin) in game, give me a holler and lets go smash something together.

Awww, I miss Mal

[Widgets]

Awww, I miss Mal

Mal came back for a lil while I noticed, but then after a while he vanished again...That or he was still in the landing since at the time i went back to Teras.

[g++]

Restraining order from in game girlfriend signed by mayor of Wehnimer.

[Lord Orbstar]

Mal had a good reputation and will continue so with his new soul. I do wish I had a FIXSTAT for him... he has some of the worst stats ever! One day I will fixstat that, but until I can I will just enjoy him as is and work on regaining my skill and knowledge of the game.

If you need a hunting partner or someone to shoot the breeze with, let me know.

[Allereli]

Mal had a good reputation and will continue so with his new soul. I do wish I had a FIXSTAT for him... he has some of the worst stats ever! One day I will fixstat that, but until I can I will just enjoy him as is and work on regaining my skill and knowledge of the game.

If you need a hunting partner or someone to shoot the breeze with, let me know.

Mal had a good reputation for being one of the best thieves. I was his friend and made sure all my shit was closed when he was around, he was klepto to the nth degree.

[Heshinar]

Tired of the grind and realized that the last 3-4 years was out of a sense of rationalization that it had to get easier.

Also after being able to code into my own mud all the mechanics that GS has I proved that it was a waste of time.

The experience system which was designed to maximize profits in GENie and other online pay per hour connected companies has never been revamped.

Finally the price. It is the MOST EXPENSIVE Online game I know of and it is very nich now. With literally 1000's of MUDs the only real thing GS has is the Front Ends that differ it from other MUDs.

Finally the community is so small and so full of jackasses that if you try to RP you get a grade school version of RP. The very few and far between real RPers seem to also be very elitist and do not like anyone trying to be part of their RP.

Bottom line... waste of time and money.

2 Premium Accounts closed. Saving $80 a month over 12 months almost a 1000 a year.

Easy decision.

[Shimmerhands]

Also after being able to code into my own mud all the mechanics that GS has I proved that it was a waste of time.

.

What MUD is that?

[StrayRogue]

The magic had simply evaporated. The dazzle of visiting a new place or hunting a new creature died out after only a few years. You begin to see the game less of a magical world, and more like a chore - so you figure out the best way to accomplish this chore. You gain the best equipment, hunt the most appropriate mobs, script between locations and all for tiny growths in your character's capabilities.

For me specifically I left because:
Too expensive.
Too boring - the hunt/unfry/hunt thing was tedium incarnate.
Most of my friends had left, become staff, or generally disappeared.
They never put a decent post 40 hunting area in Icemule.
Some GM's were just not appropriate for the job.
Nothing was done to cull the idiots, like Tsin or Atreau, or maintain the high standard of RP that GS was once esteemed for.

[septus]

I left the first time because I was sick of having to make new friends and how much time GS takes up. I sold my character Ashren as an incentive to not come back.

Came back a few years later and converted my level 20 something warrior to a paladin. Played him a bit, but I still would rather play a rogue. However, I don't want to buy someone else and I don't feel like working my way up to level 70s.

I come back about 2-3 times a year, generally for a month.. Play nonstop for about two weeks, then something else distracts me and I find it boring to come back to gemstone. Since I've started paying more attention to the boards and such, it looks like I'm due for another month in the game soon..

Probably the thing that keeps me from playing again the most is that a majority of the people who are left are assholes. There is still rampant gm favoritism and Simu basically encourages the grind sleep ignore everyone behavior, multiaccounting, and selling/buying stuff with cash. I can live with the grind if I have other people to hang out with and don't constantly have to deal with someones army bringing the spawn levels in the area I'm in up to where I can't hunt them.

But yeah, I think it still mostly comes down to not wanting to put the time into making more friends who will just leave the game.

Oh yeah, and playershops was one of the stupidest moves.. Killed the blacknet, which killed a lot of the socializing in the landing.. And there aren't any really cool items in the shops

[Heshinar]

What MUD is that?

I just did it to see if I could.

It was a messy code and some bugs but it worked. A lot of MUDs have the same things as Gemstone to a lesser or greater degree. MANY had Forging and such before Gemstone ever decided to do that.

Simple things like a treasure table and lockable boxes and rogues who can pick them and such. The Traps were a little tough.

Hell I am not even a programmer just someone who has played around with code in muds for awhile.

I figured among other things if I could get the code to work even haphazardly then a competent coder could do even better.

Why play on a MUD that has people that treat you poorly when you can code your own.

The biggest downfall and why I left is the RP or lack of real RP. I have played DnD for 30 years or so. I know the difference between real RP in a game and contrived and cliche RP that is the norm of GS.

Such stupidity like Healers having so many "poofy" names and looking like whore on Saturday night. Sheesh... No real grouping because of the MA people grouping with themselves...

Suffice it to say that it got to the point when my buddies in my weekly gaming group asked me to try WoW I did and you know I don't feel like I am going to work anymore. I actually am enjoying it.

Hated Everquest though when I tried it.

[Senglent]

Left for 2 years after they went to the web, didn't want to pay.

Came back for abit, wasn't the same to me so I left again.

Got the simu e-mail "you haven't played in a while and it's not GS4 come and take a look, heres a 60 (maybe it was 30, pretty sure it was 60) day free trail. I came back found a couple old friends, then they left.

Still about cause.....Sometimes I wonder.

Don't see the few people I know IG very often, sometimes it's fun sometimes it's not so much. Probably the reminising of old is why I stick about I guess.

How did someone put it? stay up till 3-4 am smoking cigarettes playing a quiet text game was fun when you were 12-13. Sadly I still do that, but with the less fun part now.

Gonna leave at some point, always wanted to just walk up to a noob and hand them a backpack with all the high-end shit I have gathered over the years and say "Hold this a second would you? Okay, Bye!". Then most likely that will be that.

[NocturnalRob]

Gonna leave at some point, always wanted to just walk up to a noob and hand them a backpack with all the high-end shit I have gathered over the years and say "Hold this a second would you? Okay, Bye!". Then most likely that will be that.

I still remember way back when people would have "Leaving the Lands" giveaways and just dump all their shit on a noob. Back when the game was always freezing up because the servers were shit and too many people were playing...ah, those were the days...

[Stretch]

I left the first time because I was sick of having to make new friends and how much time GS takes up. I sold my character Ashren as an incentive to not come back.


I always thought Ashren sold out because of the accidental cybering on the thought net :(

Maybe I'm thinking of Asben...

[septus]

I always thought Ashren sold out because of the accidental cybering on the thought net :(

Maybe I'm thinking of Asben...

haha, that was me..but it wasn't cybering on the net.. I was making fun of a spam message on alt.music.smashing-pumkpins to someone in im and then accadentally pasted it in one of my looking for lockpick things. I didn't sell Ashren until like 3-4 years after that happened. Wonder if Ashren is still around.

(Yeah, and BTW..I'm back..and already semi regretting it haha..I'll probably be gone in January when I have to go back to work)

[Back]

For those that left the game, why did you leave?

If you came back, what made you do so and how long was your break?

Originally I left because I thought I was not being recognized for trying to bring more people into the game with rp.

After that, it was all about the cash sales and subscription costs.

[Insodus]

Because there are free-to-play MUDs with less retarded GMs and more Dev time being done.

[Back]

Because there are free-to-play MUDs with less retarded GMs and more Dev time being done.

What I would not give for some Dev time.

:whistle:

[Mathari]

Because there are free-to-play MUDs with less retarded GMs and more Dev time being done.
Any recommendations?

[Insodus]

Any recommendations?

I played Mume (http://mume.org/) a while back because I love the Tolkien universe. But that one isn't under quite as active development.

For more active ones Achaea (http://www.achaea.com) and Aardwolf (http://www.aardwolf.com/) are good choices.

[Insodus]

What I would not give for some Dev time.

:whistle:

Its not for lack of talent. I've been a professional programmer for nearly 12 years now. I had my resume up on their GM registry for nearly 4 years before I quit in ~2006. And I'm sure there are many other equally qualified resume's that were up there collecting dust.

Yet they decide to hire douche trolleys who cant code and now they haven't had any significant new development since paladins... gee what a surprise.

[CrystalTears]

Heh, pretty sure Back meant the poster, DeV.

You can't have her! Mine mine mine!!

[Furrowfoot]

I left because I saw behind the curtain, made a job out of a hobby, got frustrated with the way the job side of things was run at high levels, and then just couldn't get back into the game as a player.

[zhelas]

The game is what you make out of it. Honestly it is becoming boring. So much for less tedium and more fun.

There was a time when it did have a magical sparkle. You didn't want to leave because if you did, something exciting did happen. Now you can sleep for years and you don't miss much.

Cost is rediculous. $14.95 to $39.95 to access their servers according to Naos


I'll agree that Simutronics, the company, provides a service to its clients, subscribers/players. We'll likely disagree on what that service is; it's accessing the game subscribed to. Our clients aren't paying us to deliver customizations; that is not a service.

When that starts being the case, in addition to subscription fees that cover accessing the game, then there might be ground to stand on with claims of promises. Of course, at that point you'd likely have full-time developers working on the product, and not volunteer hobbyists, so the point would likely be moot.

--
Naos

Simu needs a government bailout. Hell someone needs to buy them who actually might give a darn.

HJ is an April Fool's joke that has gone on for way too long.

[Mathari]

HJ is an April Fool's joke that has gone on for way too long.
Hero's Journey exists, but it's just a reference for other companies to use when designing real games via HeroEngine.

http://www.heroengine.com/why.asp

Hero's Journey&#174; Reference -- Access the full Hero's Journey&#174; game as a reference to get up to speed fast.
Something about that always makes me LOL.

[zhelas]

I know the engine has been created and sold. Kudos to Simu for developing an engine that others want. :)

But for the actual game to come out? I think we will see Savants before HJ the game is released.

[Methais]

I think Simu knows they just suck too much and Whatley is too cheap to be able to compete with real MMOs.

I wouldn't mind seeing a graphical version of Gemstone though, but it'll never happen because Simu, like good according to Dark Helmet, is dumb.

[NocturnalRob]

I wouldn't mind seeing a graphical version of Gemstone though

really? i dunno. i like the text-based action. it reminds me that literacy is important.

[Methais]

really? i dunno. i like the text-based action. it reminds me that literacy is important.

I already knew how to read before I played GS, so that's not an issue for me.

[Mateius]

i dont think simu purges. i left in 2000 because college = way more fun. came back right before EG and all my characters on all my accounts were still there.

ive tried to bring a few people with me on my return but they all crack up when i mention a game with no pictures. =p