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Only three and a half months? Boo..
Thats nothing.
My now abandoned Rogue has probably half a year and my warrior at least 4 monhts.
Yes. I'm talking about "Time Played" as in time I was activley playing the game.
What can I say? I was in one of the best guilds in the game (Not best of server, we had Afterlife (best guild in the world) on our server.
We played 5pm EST to Midnight. What this usualy meant was scouting started at 3pm. I got home from work at 6pm and showed up just in time for the first kill, we'd 'officialy' finish at midnight and hit unofficial targets till 2am.
Friday night was 5pm till 3am. One weekend day was always "RL time" as in you don't have to be on. But most were anyway. Mandatory weekend day was 3pm - midnight (except Saturdays which was often 3am)
Yet I can honestly say that I was never 'addicted'. Yeah I 'lived' in Everquest but only because I chose to not because I had to. I could always get up and walk away, in the end I did. I just didn't have time anymore and I was not interested in a lower style gameplay. As in a lower tier guild...so I quit. My char is rotting in the virtual GY of EQ chars.
I never miss EQ but I do miss some of the people that I used to play with. We had about 150 people in guild and I knew 30 like brothers. We always had a seperate channel for our little "inner circle" going. Damn I miss the people....
I figure if I ever fuck up RL I'll go back to EQ. I know some of my friends will still be there as they have made it clear that they never plan to leave the world of EQ as they just like it there better than in RL. I know some people will say "But it's not real! It's fake! It's imaginary! How can you dedicate so much time to something thats not real?"
The thing is...if it makes you happy, who cares if it's real or not? If there is a group of people who are always happy to see you and miss you when you're gone can they not be your family even if they aren't really 'there'?
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