Time to lay it to rest

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Auscia

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In short:
I'm quitting DAoC in two weeks or so, possibly popping by during the first few days of May, before my account subscription runs out.

The main reason is that the only thing that's kept me returning to the game has been roleplay, and as it happens, I've managed to tie all of Auscia's loose ends up. I've effectively played her out of the running story lines; there are no reasons for her to stay active and on the field, but oh so many reasons to go home and take it easy. She's not only 16 weeks pregnant, but she's also come to a few sound conclusions about herself, what the future will hold and what must be done - and all of her plans are long-term plans that will take place behind the scenes.

Other, minor reasons are numerous, but I could live with them since the amount of excellent roleplay just was something that made it worthwhile. But, let's face it. The game in itself is stupid, repetitive and revolves around getting the next item/level. That just isn't what does it for me. I want surroundings that actually feel like there's substance to them. In DAoC all the npc:s stand in one single spot, night and day, and they don't have one single thing to say - except if you're on a quest, which always involve the same elements of running around and fighting numerous enemies. You can't even buy meals from a bar, and none of the inns have beds in them. I mean, how stupid is that?
RvR is illogical and stupid, consisting only of running around and fighting numerous enemies (dejá vu, anyone?). Repetitive? You bet. In addition, the classes are unbalanced and the success of the fights depends way too much on who has the most realm points, i.e. has had the stamina to play longest.

Not only is the game poorly designed, I've grown more and more fed up at GOA and Mythic. Not only have they basically neglected customer support, they promise a lot in the way of updates and evening up the game balance, but they never deliver. Mythic has a track record of promises to fix a lot of issues that even after a year are still not done. GOA... well, gods, GOA takes the grand prize. XML in the home pages is still broken, customer service, if you're very lucky, actually provides answers that in most cases consists only of the promise "we'll look at it"... which they never do. Lastly, GOA still hasn't fixed the update problem; for four weeks, paying customers have been sent to US update servers and have downloaded the wrong patch, which means you have to reinstall the game and hope that it doesn't happen again. Correcting such an error is in my opinion basic customerservice, but no, even though all it would really take is changing one digit to another, GOA doesn't come through.

Finally, the thing that broke the camel's back is this:
"More than a year after its launch, Dark Age of Camelot is going through a new evaluation of its subscription prices, while remaining the cheapest 2nd generation MMORPG on the market (from 9.16 ? per month).
This change of tariffs will take effect at the 5th of May 2003 onwards, and will affect the subscriptions signed after this date.
The subscriptions still valid before the revaluation will not be affected until they are renewed, after the 5th of May 2003 onwards.

From this date the new subscription tariffs will be :
1 month subscription : 8£ or 12?
3 months subscription : 22£ or 32? (less than 11 ? per month)
6 months subscription : 41£ or 60? (10? per month)"

Well fuck me sideways if I'll pay even more money per month for neglible customer support, buggy code and crappy game.


Despite my whining, it's been a fun rollercoaster, and I'm very happy to been a part of it.
I admit, I'm a bit sad to let Auscia go get the rest she needs, because I really love her complex psychology - neurotic, fragile and obsessively introspective, but also very empathic, stubborn and purposeful, Auscia always burns both ends of the candle by constantly striving to squeeze one more ounce of effectiveness to give her a bit more edge. Despite being a veteran of roleplaying games, this woman gives me a headache every now and then :)


Anyway, enough rambling.
Three weeks and counting. If you have loose ends to tie up with me, better start doing something about it ;)
 
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Auscia

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Bah.

It's 3:40 a.m. here, and you don't hear me not complaining :)
Besides, like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum puts it: "Sleep Is Wrong!"
 
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old.ST200

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fucking essays

if 50p a week is too much for you.. lol

bye
 
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old.Laryssa

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/salute Auscia

will miss our occasional chats ;)
 
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Qte Eth

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Sad to see u go m8:(
and about deja vu-well many games have same repeteable gameplay- chess,football,q3 etc so its all depends if u enjoy the repeating on same game process or not
gl
 
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VodkaFairy

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Goodbye Auscia. I wish we could have done more together roleplay-wise but as you know, it's not really my thing, although I'm practising now :)

The description you gave of the game is very good, it shows exactely why I'm only staying for one thing: my friends. And they're going away now. There have been goodbye posts more than I can even remember - this realm is going to be dead in a few months if it continues like this.

Anyway, I hope you'll stay around on The Kindred's forums so we can keep in touch. Here is a screenshot of you, look at it well before you leave. ((False hope to make you come back just for the looks of Auscia :p))

auscia.jpg


Good luck with everything- and take care!
 
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Arrows

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i agree with every single thing you say :(

shame to see you go auscia gl and maybe see you in whatever rpg comes out next ye may try your hand at =/

/ponder
/bow
/salute ...
/respect
 
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Faeldawn

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Yet another ranger bites the dust :(

Children and family changes yer perspective on what is important in life, immense respect to you for putting the important things first.

Again another big loss for Hibernia, best of luck for the future Auscia and wishing you and your child good health.

/salute
/cry (a lil)
 
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Ruddyn

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I've already said it... but I'll say it again - "Safe Trails, Auscia Starbrow. You have been my hunting companion for more than a year, my friend and my wife!"

Rudd will miss ya ...
 
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censi

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fare thee well fair maiden....

You will be missed.

(aye Goa are cunts)
 
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Auscia

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Faeldawn:
> Children and family changes yer perspective on what is important in life,
> immense respect to you for putting the important things first.


Whoa, hey :)
A slight misunderstanding here. My character, Auscia, is the one who is pregnant, not me. Hell, I would be really, really worried if I was the one who is pregnant, being a guy and all ;p
 
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Vantros

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lol Auscia.. have fun whereever life takes u.. and remember DAOC is only a credit card payment away if u need us :p

anyway Auscia its sad to see u go, but i understand where u are comin from, and wish u well on your journey..

happy trails <wave> <kiss>
 
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old.Glendower

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16 weeks pregnant?? ugh.

Hibernia is overcrowded enough...get her to a potion shop and grab an abortificant while you still can. That way she can save a lot of cash and hassle and still have a life while preserving the world.
 
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inuyasha

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Originally posted by Auscia
In short:

In short? lol took an age to read it :rolleyes:
Look like you want everquest tbh, to bad its outdated now, case it had all you said you missed. Get everquest 2 when i come out :D

Oh and 8->12 euro pr month? who cares! I spend about 10 euro every day on lunch at school, it dont really matter :p Almost remind of my teacher who once was in one of the poorer countries in the world, and bought food every day for 0,0125 euro from a marked. He could have bought this of course about a million times, but he was used to the prices. So when one day he was charged 0,02 euro for it, he got angry, turned around and went starving. He still wonder why the hell he did that, since hes hourly wage was about 20 euro there, so he could have bought this at "overprice" 1000 times each hour, but it was habit.

I think both 8 and 12 euro is worth the price for daoc, its still about one hours work or less.... one hour every month equal a salary off 720 hours of daoc for that one hour, and i would not really allow myself to call that "a lot" :p
 
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Faeldawn

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Oh fek, too confusing for a drunken ranger to comprehend :)

Cyas Auscia ;)
 

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