Join the new world

Well, it's about that time, folks. That time in everyone's eRep career where they determine that it is in their wholehearted and best interests to leave this game, to quit as it is, and pursue different interests in their life. I have reached that time.

Please, don't be too sad that I'm leaving. I'm certainly not sad. Sad is not the word I would use to describe leaving this game, and moving on to other things. Sad is, however, is the word I would use to describe leaving this amazing community that has somehow developed around this game. I suppose the game influences people to make connections, forces people to socialize in order to accomplish their means. The people who are most successful in the game are the very same people who can get onto IRC and be greeted from every room they join.

In some ways, these seven months have been some of the best months I can remember. However, I can't shake the feeling that there's something wrong with devoting your time to an online game in which the general "goal" is to spend as much time and money on it as possible, thus leading to your success, and therefore spending even more time and money. It's a positive feedback loop. For those of you who aren't that word-savvy, that's the bad kind.

People keep asking me why I'm leaving, and I swear to you, I cannot come up with a straight answer. Sometimes I think that the workload has piled up to unmanageable proportions. But it hasn't. Other times I think that I just got bored of the game. But I didn't. To be completely honest, I think that my decision to quit the game came from a combination of bowling, dragons, and the amazon river. And no, before you ask, I did not have a hallucinogenic dream in which myself and a dragon went bowling on the amazon river, and decided to leave eRep as a result. No, my cryptic answer will remain just as cryptic to you as it is to me.

My quitting of the game is not yet complete. I am still the AMP CoS, meaning that I have to stick around until at least the next PP elections. Plus, I'm still the IES Director, so I guess I need to dump- er, give that job to somebody else. The point is, this won't be the last time you'll ever hear from me. I'll be sticking around for a few more weeks, until all of my commitments are no longer mine.

I'm writing this article as a sort of prelude to my leaving of the game. I will be dumping my eRepublik folder (we all have one) into a series of articles related to a multitude of things including: Pizza the Hut II, the JCS, and obsessions with things large and purple. I may/may not anger some people with these articles (Namely, Pizza the Hut II, the JCS, and people who are obsessed with things large and purple). That's OK by me. If some people have to get angry at me for others to be happier with the game, it's a necessary sacrifice.

I have decided to join the Ultramarines during my last days here, for the sole reason that if I were to join the Airborne or another JCS unit, I would become too attached to the people again, and I would be tempted to stay. That is the last thing I wish to happen.

Let me apologize for the wall of text. I didn't really have any pictures to express the content within. But that's alright. Who needs pictures anyways?

Stay classy folks.
~Kijiman