The End Is Near

Day 5,470, 17:54 • Published in Japan Japan • by Fyreous
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I am sitting in my office in Kojimachi; Tokio, mid-day in late autumn. The sky is clear and blue, with a few puffy clouds drifting lazily by. The sun is somewhat warm on my shoulders as I sit at my desk, gazing out the window I see the first leaves fall. This year has gone so fast, too quickly if you ask me.

It's funny how things happen. How one thing leads into another, and suddenly you're into something you did not expect to find yourself doing a moment ago. Well, maybe I shouldn't say "wasn't expecting" since I'm the one writing this article, yet the alcohol is surely helping - a fine bottle of quality sake I got on a trip to Kobe.

But anyway, where was I? Oh yes, the reason that made me write this article...

I felt compelled to tell you my opinion on the state of this world that we call our own and what it means for us personally - the players. For those who are reading these columns after I publish this article or in the distant future - this world is not what it used to be, gone are the times of struggles, intrigue, and war. What we have instead is what would make Dio Brando anything but proud : an era of perverted peace and boredom.

We have formed this world into an eternal circle of farming for gold via endless training wars that benefit no one, not even ourselves. The world population is falling month by month, nothing worth of interest is really happening and I have considered more than once returning myself to the void and becoming one with the sand I and many others came from.

I mean there is no point, to train and work endlessly day after day, week after week, year after year, only to become richer and stronger, the most skilled tank or pilot. Doing a few tasks here and there; no wonder so many people are quitting.

Well, some might say that if you look for something meaningful to do you can go into politics, yet congress is saying "yes" to almost anything, the government is usually the same people around the globe, and there is no real discourse or struggle as long as there is gold to farm via training wars or something that threatens those training wars.

This world needs changing if we want it to survive or it will just die of our lack of will to change anything. Why are we even playing? Why are we paying money? Why are we spending our precious time in this world?

We surely are not here to do some events that have no meaning other than to increase sales nor provide anything in terms of gameplay. We are behaving like mindless drones searching for the next fix of gold and we are only here because of habit and the connections we have built with other players. The only thing that this so-called game has going for it is the people we interact with on a daily basis, and for many, I am glad to have met them and for some, I am able to call them my friends.

I look at the written words on my screen and think about the future. I don't know when the world will end, and I know is heading towards its death in the next few years.

Yet I may have a suggestion to end this nonsense and to enforce a change and hopefully improve what we have at the moment, it's a simple yet for some outrageous idea : end all wars, end all training wars, liberate every region and establish real peace.

A peace that would make Dio proud of all of us!
A peace to show the collective power and the will of the players for a change!
A peace that has more meaning than anything we have at the moment!
A peace that does not require us to do more than we do at the moment, but less!
A peace to spite the ones that exploit us for easy money!
A peace for change!

I pause ... let us try to save the world.