Long Live UO:R!

The Azoth Museum and Library is gratefully accepting any and all of Gideons Tooth Fairy and Santa Clause'esque pixels.

With every donation you get a free Azoth's Museum T-shirt and truly wonderous donations gets your name on the Patrons Plaque....

@Merlin we all play games for different reasons. The game itself is just pixels, but its also a challenging system of math, and spreadsheets to some. Others come and stay for the community, drama, and fellowship of other 30+ year old gamers. Then there are people who just want to sit and have fun. All of these reasons will inevitably create an attachment to the game.

You cannot just uninstalling it or turning it off

In case you haven't been reading some posts the pixels aren't really the point for people who played with and got to know Gideon. Its the human bonds made, the struggle with others against a common foe or striving for a common objective with others that many value the most. This game is basically a microcosm of the human experience in ways that many other games cannot be. Is it more important than RL? Absolutely not. But for many of us who play in a community and build bonds it is no mere illusory or unsubstantial thing that is being formed. Like in life you get out what you put in.

Is he dying?

If so, then I apologize for my insensitive viewpoint of people's greed along with the ideology of quitting a game moves oneself into some new phase of life.

If he's okay in RL, then get a phone number, an email address, or just keep in touch on discord. They're not dead. They're just not playing the same video game as you.

You’re the worst.

Sounds like someone is jeleous that they wouldn't be missed by the player base if they were to stop playing...

I wasn't attempting to troll or activate snowflakes, but here we are anyways.

I have nothing but respect for how GJ played the game and his contributions to this server.

But it ends there. Perhaps you think that the legacy one leaves behind in an imaginary video game world is extremely important. You may seek public adulation as validation to compensate for what you don't receive outside the confines of the gaming world. And that's perfectly fine, we differ there. I just don't care. Nor am I "jeleous".

Let's not start attacking each other repeatedly on this. Everyone has their on views on this game and the community, and it is not a crime for these views to differ.

Merlin - to be fair, the phrasing you are using is "attacking" a bit - implying that the folks that like GJ don't receive validation in their real lives, casting accusations that their posts to GJ are driven by "greed", etc., etc.

If you want an intellectual debate about how the UO community mimics (or doesn't) real life, I think we could all have that, but holding out yourself as operating on some higher plane while others are attacking you is a bit disingenuous.

Let's not taint this post with such back and forward shenanigans

This is a game, yep. It's also a social experience. I haven't been here as long as Gideon, or watched the server grow and change as much as he did. I have had some amazing experiences though. I might be sitting with a laptop on my legs and a crappy iPhone headset hanging off my head, waiting to get ripped from my ear and send me into a rage as I fumble with the tangled wires, but I am sharing that with people that have become friends.

We will all close up the game at some point, and for various reasons move on. We keep those friendships, memories, and experiences though.

It's clear that Gideon has had some of those moments, based on some of the words his old friends and comrades have left him with in this thread.

That's what I am referring to. The stuff is just stuff, but man that rush for loot was pretty fun.

I think you are just looking for some drama and are reading a bit too much into what I said. I never implied anything about GJ, or even people who might have known him. And who cares? That's their choice. Pointing it out is no crime. I was responding to Nusir on the jealousy comment - someone who'd be jealous would be someone who sought such things.

But those aren't accusations, those are facts about greed. If people were there scavenging his things, that is greed. Greed drives the IDOC scene. And there's nothing wrong with that either. That's why people spend countless hours trying to get the scraps of what someone else earned and eventually left behind.

Probably best to just move on from the topic. There's nothing to debate.

Amen. Nothing more to discuss. Back to the regular thread please.

Fair enough. I disagree that everything was driven by greed, or that participating in the IDOC is not "earning" something, as your post seems to imply (as the majority of GJ's spoils were earned through... IDOCing), but it doesn't seem worth debating - I agree.

Participating in an IDOC is ABSOLUTELY earning something...

Remembrances, memorials etc are not for the departed, but for those who are still here....

I’m just stoked about the redistribution of fine things amongst the playerbase. This is how you pay it forward UOR style and keep momentum in a 20 year old game on a 7/8 year old server.

Why? So you pixel hoarders have more different color pixels to stare at?

Why? Because I personally prefer to see active players engage in the trade and collection of rares (a HUGE part of this game) instead of inactive players letting these items gather dust.

People have so many different goals in this game but I know a lot of people who have been on year long missions to acquire specific sandals, masks and other rares to complete or finish sets or outfits and I like to see those missions come to fruition for them.

I wasn’t there, didn’t attend, I’ve pretty much completed my goals here and decided to swerve it so that more active and current players had a higher chance to get shit instead of me just adding to the gold pile from selling anything I caught.

Relax man, play your game and don’t sweat how others play there’s unless it’s in a way that erroneously fucks with yours and is against the rules.

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