Goodbye, TSW (for now at least).

I have decided to stop playing TSW (very) actively.

Main reasons:
1. Lost interest in my personal long-term gamegoal.
2. Insane droprate dungeon museumitems, and drops + requirements for lair museumitems.

I could have lived with only reason 2 since it is a long-term goal anyway to complete the museum. But I can't stand cheaters. I've spent a lot of time farming 10ks. I started months before the museum was live. It was a personal goal, something that kept me logging in. Time others have spent doing challenges or PvP, I was killing mobs. That was my choice. Now seeing a lot of AFK persons / bots standing at farmspots totally demotivates me to continue getting the 10ks achievements myself, since such an achievement feels worthless if you know people have gotten or are getting it the 'cheap way'. It now feels like I've wasted a lot of my time, Jinn 10k only was 75+ hours or so. I'm not naive, I know it already happened before the Museumpatch, but I only was confronted with an AFKperson once in maybe 18 months. The last few weeks I've seen one almost every day, with 1 rude person just suddenly running to a monsterspawnpoint where I was busy killing mobs and he just went AFK, automatically 'stealing my monsters'.

Losing interest in reaching my personal long-term gamegoal, getting all 10k achievements (and eventually most other achievements), makes me lose interest in the game itself. Therefore my decision to take at least a long break/hiatus from the game. At this moment I think I will see TSW as a singleplayer game only. Only coming back once in a while when a new issue is out. Just to play the new missions and experience the new stories once or twice.

Starting with Mass Effect I will now first focus on completing my gamebacklog of storydriven games I still needed/wanted to play, but which got kind of wasted because I was spending my time in TSW 😀 .

Thanks to all cabalies for all the ODO fun and activities the last few months.

So you basically beat the game by getting 10K jinn achievement and decided to retire while on the peak of your glory. Wise choice, my (fire)lord.

Seriously though, I played a lot of Lineage II back in the day and very familiar with bots problem as well as competition for good farming spots. I don't spend that much time killing monsters now but I understand the desire to avoid encounters like this.

May your adventures in other worlds be exciting, experience plentiful, companions strong and villains heinous. Hope to see you again in Africa (Antarctica, Atlantis, Moon, whatever...) soon.

Sad to hear this DeF 🙁 But it's important to be having fun while you're playing and if you're not then it's better to take a break. If you decide to come back (and I hope you do!) then just drop us a line 🙂

Sorry to hear you got burned DF, hope you enjoy your stories and return. I have finally finished Dreamfall Chapters not long ago, was great fun.

Report bots, help funckom clear the skies ... AFK farming is strictly prohibited, and use of 3rd party programs (that u need to afk farm) fall into the same category 😉 Instead of leaving a game u enjoy, make the most out of it and report bots/afk farmers to admins. They have a way of checking that is really fast. If someone is just rude, you can still report him since the community of this game is mostly polite and fun ppl that never enjoy a rude 10y old.

Join the resistance against bots/hacks/abusers that ruin the fun of everyone ...

If you are reading this, you ARE the resistance

haha burn them all >:)

Awww...we will miss you Def, bestower of Monster-wisdom and maker of feather pillows.

But really, with things as they are atm, I get it. So many excellent games out there! And Mass Effect (the whole series) is perhaps my favorite ever, so I hope that you enjoy it, too!

I kinda miss TSW already but, unfortunately, the 'way-too-big' nerf on Kyonshi 10k doesn't help, because...yup, now I have more wasted grind time :p. Grinding Kyoshi's wasnt too bad anyway compared to Jinn and especially combined with other monsters. But I saw the forumthread on the official site and yeah... I better not comment. A museumrequirementnerf was a better choice imo.

@TS-13: Thanks, but give them to others who still enjoy upgradeing their museum. When I come back I won't continue with museum but finish the last couple augments instead. They probably have nerfed the museumdrops by then 😀.