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It's been a short while, hasn't it?

Written by darkness on August 23, 2010
Hello, VuTalers. Glad to see you all again.

Runescape



I actually havn't been playing Runescape recently, but I do keep up with the game. Today, they released the date for the next Bonus XP Weekend. Before those of you left go jumping onto your dusty Runescape accounts, swatting off the cobwebs to start anew with this boost, you probably should know it's for members. I've lost my membership a while back, so sadly I will not be participating in it myself. The dungeoneering updates don't appease me well, considering I seldom train that skill.

I generally don't like dungeoneering because of its disjoint concept: the training stays in Daemonheim, the rewards stay in Runescape. There's no interaction between the two, other than that the former produces the latter. If I could train dungeoneering with my own gear, rather than use some weird weapon and armor and food, then perhaps it'd be more enticing.

Maplestory



Well, what can I say? Maplestory has really dug its grave pretty deep this time. After removing Stage 2 of the Visitors event series, they caused a bug in the system that spams nearly EVERY map with aliens that steal the spawns from normal spawns. To avoid this, one can go to hidden streets and mini dungeons, among other places, but really, how many of us can train in those isolated areas?

Pam's Song should really be called scam song. I mean really, $19.50 for a scroll buffer zone? I know that white scrolls are costly and rare but seriously, could they have milked maplers any more?

Also, if you havn't heard yet, PopTag is hosting a gachapon giveaway that ends tomorrow (or tonight, not sure) if you've played Maplestory between May and August something-or-other. All you have to do is level up 3 times in PopTag, and a week after the event ends, you'll get 5 gachapon tickets. No joke (unless Nexon pulls a fast one, in which it'd be a cruel joke).

Starcraft



After Starcraft 2 came out, I went back to playing the old one (seeing as I can't get the new one). I spent 3 hours looking for a feasible game Mac installer because of several technicalities (which I don't even understand, but guess didn't need to). Although it brought back memories, it also brought back a serious flaw in my strategies. Firstly, I have to kick the habit of using cheats (at least in a serious game; in casual games, I have say in how to destroy my opponent). Second, I have to develop a strategy overall, generally a more offensive one. I tried to utilize a defensive strategy, and I ended up jeopardizing my chances in expanding my resources. I've already gotten the knack of building a strong early economy, but my military is (unsurprisingly) lacking.

The one exception to this is on the map Chrysalis, a one-on-one mineral field in which you have to mine or fly your way to your opponent's base. As Protoss, I was able to mine to a Vespene Geyser first and was able to churn out Dark Templars. My Terran opponents were still spamming marines, and had not built any missile turrets. Once a gap in the mineral field opened up, I sent my 6 or so Dark Templars, and utterly slaughtered them without losing a single unit.

Site



Although I've been pretty silent on VuTales, I have been monitoring the forums and blogs, loosely. I have to say that I am disappointed in the direction that the community is heading. Although this site offers a wider level of freedom in blogging, I do miss those days when we shared information about games, and less so about real life, or about theories, paradoxes. Forum games have been replaced by such miscellany and Biebers that just yields a platform for pointless spamming. I feel like this site, this community that we've sustained for so long, has adulterated too far from it's initial purpose, of creating a pseudo-haven for gamers from Captain, a pseudo-MMOTales. Rather than a welcoming locale for a mapler or whatnot to relax and share his experience while one's offline from Maplestory, this site has become rather drab, of unappealing etcetera and such, of lolcats and rickrolls.

I respect the importance of other bloggers' blogs of personal life and interesting histories, especially many of the newcomers. But I just feel like there's little "game" left in this site these days.

As my closing words for this blog, I sincerely wish for the inhabitants of this great site to take up arms again, and use this site as a platform for gamers to socialize, not a vulnerable mass for trolls to crash again.

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Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:38 PM +
Gujju
"Get chance and luck!"

Lol. I stopped gaming like 4 years ago, which is why i dont game blog anymore.

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:04 AM +
tarheel91
///M

BS Sneha. You played Aika a few months ago.

@Darkness: That's the direction the site was heading in the last 6 months of MMOTales. The basic rule was to include at least one game-related sentence before going on about real life. The people of this community have changed, and thus, so has the demographic.

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:20 AM +
Spade
[ƒα∫§ε] [§ηαK€]

tarheel91 said: BS Sneha. You played Aika a few months ago.


Owned. :l

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:28 AM +
Gujju
"Get chance and luck!"

tarheel91 said: BS Sneha. You played Aika a few months ago.

@Darkness: That's the direction the site was heading in the last 6 months of MMOTales. The basic rule was to include at least one game-related sentence before going on about real life. The people of this community have changed, and thus, so has the demographic.


yah but how short lived was that? I literally forgot about the game one day.

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 01:06 AM +
tarheel91
///M

Gujju said:
tarheel91 said: BS Sneha. You played Aika a few months ago.

@Darkness: That's the direction the site was heading in the last 6 months of MMOTales. The basic rule was to include at least one game-related sentence before going on about real life. The people of this community have changed, and thus, so has the demographic.


yah but how short lived was that? I literally forgot about the game one day.


So did I. :P It was too generic and boring. You still play games, you just don't like bad ones!

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 01:12 AM +
Dustin
~ HarmonyHollow.net ~

"Yes, let us revert back to a time in which we blogged about the unimportant, inane, useless practice of gaming."

Really, though. Gaming is fun and all but to say that the community is heading in the wrong direction insinuates that gaming or anything pertaining to it is the sole purpose of the site when in reality, all it was was a fad that brought the community together. We came together because we had mutual interests, we began to trust each other and then we began to vent to people we knew we could trust to provide helpful advice and help us through tough times. Is that wrong? No.

Oh and I understand you included the bit about how it's obviously important to include the real life stuff but you would have never claimed the community was headed in the wrong direction or whatever if you hadn't believed gaming deserves a higher pedestal than the personal problems of those who use the site. You just made it politically correct (Vutalially correct, teehee) as not to offend someone. I appreciate you doing that though, thank you.

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 02:05 AM +
David
Beeh.

):

I blogged about vindictus, but no one reads those.

:p

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 02:45 AM [Edited once ] +
darkness
Sometimes the most profound reaction is nothing.

tarheel91 said: @Darkness: That's the direction the site was heading in the last 6 months of MMOTales. The basic rule was to include at least one game-related sentence before going on about real life. The people of this community have changed, and thus, so has the demographic.


Kinda missed those days where there was a game-related sentence or two.

Thing was, it's not really just game blogs that I missed. There has also been a rather lack of fanfics, many great ones that have been discontinued. Forum games, as irritating as some of them could have been, were miniscule diversions that were subtly fun. Troubleshooting, which was fairly occasional on MMOTales, has become nearly nonexistent.

Perhaps I am younger at heart, yearning for days gone by. But by losing the gaming quality, it feels like the community has drifted apart, and instead of a watering hole for offline gamers, our site's become more of simply hanging on. I believe that it is that quality that had driven this community, and without it, it seems to have slowed. Back to the days leading up to MMOT-armageddon, blogs would last a day or two, three at most, before new ones pushed them down. Forums were rarely touched in making new threads, as many typically drifted to existing ones. Now, blogs would stay on the recent list for a week or more, and new threads are generally about some senseless, pointless ramble or some new video one found.

Perhaps what I'm saying is, other than the very VuTales here, there's little theme that ties us together anymore, like games used to in MMOTales.

Edit: @Dustin: I'm not saying that the coming together on mutual interests is incorrect or anything. In fact, it's something that I feel still benefits me on a personal level. But without something, anything, a singular quality of similarity (or a collection of similar qualities, or whatnot), I feel that this site's becoming less and less... original, perhaps, and lapses into a similar mishmash that Profil3 looks like.

...Damn, I'm rambling too much.

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 02:55 AM +
Dustin
~ HarmonyHollow.net ~

Well no one really does share a common interest in games anymore. Sure, we still game but most of us play different games. The most common of which would prolly be MW2 and people still talk about that so I don't really see a problem.

OH ARLY. Look at me on the leaderboards. I got fucking hacked. Shit sucks.

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 02:56 AM +
Dest1
Maximum Overtroll!!

darkness said: Forum games have been replaced by such miscellany and Biebers that just yields a platform for pointless spamming.


Hey man, I have Bieber fever.

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 03:09 AM +
tarheel91
///M

darkness said:
tarheel91 said: @Darkness: That's the direction the site was heading in the last 6 months of MMOTales. The basic rule was to include at least one game-related sentence before going on about real life. The people of this community have changed, and thus, so has the demographic.


Kinda missed those days where there was a game-related sentence or two.

Thing was, it's not really just game blogs that I missed. There has also been a rather lack of fanfics, many great ones that have been discontinued. Forum games, as irritating as some of them could have been, were miniscule diversions that were subtly fun. Troubleshooting, which was fairly occasional on MMOTales, has become nearly nonexistent.

Perhaps I am younger at heart, yearning for days gone by. But by losing the gaming quality, it feels like the community has drifted apart, and instead of a watering hole for offline gamers, our site's become more of simply hanging on. I believe that it is that quality that had driven this community, and without it, it seems to have slowed. Back to the days leading up to MMOT-armageddon, blogs would last a day or two, three at most, before new ones pushed them down. Forums were rarely touched in making new threads, as many typically drifted to existing ones. Now, blogs would stay on the recent list for a week or more, and new threads are generally about some senseless, pointless ramble or some new video one found.

Perhaps what I'm saying is, other than the very VuTales here, there's little theme that ties us together anymore, like games used to in MMOTales.

Edit: @Dustin: I'm not saying that the coming together on mutual interests is incorrect or anything. In fact, it's something that I feel still benefits me on a personal level. But without something, anything, a singular quality of similarity (or a collection of similar qualities, or whatnot), I feel that this site's becoming less and less... original, perhaps, and lapses into a similar mishmash that Profil3 looks like.

...Damn, I'm rambling too much.


Hehe... not quite a fanfic.

Anyways, I think you're just young. You're like 15 or something right? Responsibilities and freedom increase quickly with age during the late teens. That's where a lot of the community is. That means lots of time and energy spent on things you never had to care for before and lots of time and energy spent on things you never cared about before. I've basically got 6 free hours each weekday, and I've got to spend a lot of that doing necessary things (cleaning, preparing for tomorrow, preparing food, etc.). All of that stuff you listed takes a lot of time when combined. I used to write 2 pages each day for my The Boy Was Lucky fan fic because I was stuck at my mom's school with nothing to do. I don't have time for something like that any more.

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 03:10 AM +
darkness
Sometimes the most profound reaction is nothing.

I guess I'm the one still stuck in days of Halo: Custom Edition and Power Overwhelming.

Still, I'm not really asking for a game or games to be a central theme. I'm just looking for something to conglomerate the scattered thoughts and concepts that each of us have to bring. And no, Justin Bieber can NOT be that theme.

And anyway, where the hell are the people who play Starcraft 2? Where are the nice screenshots of those games?

@David: Scanned your blogs about Vindictus. Looks great, has good graphics, but has WoW or Runescape quality to it. Probably won't play- by the time I may get interested in it, there'll probably be enough patches to make it lag like Maplestory. But seriously hate the alien stuff.

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 03:19 AM +
darkness
Sometimes the most profound reaction is nothing.

tarheel91 said:
darkness said:
tarheel91 said: @Darkness: That's the direction the site was heading in the last 6 months of MMOTales. The basic rule was to include at least one game-related sentence before going on about real life. The people of this community have changed, and thus, so has the demographic.


Kinda missed those days where there was a game-related sentence or two.

Thing was, it's not really just game blogs that I missed. There has also been a rather lack of fanfics, many great ones that have been discontinued. Forum games, as irritating as some of them could have been, were miniscule diversions that were subtly fun. Troubleshooting, which was fairly occasional on MMOTales, has become nearly nonexistent.

Perhaps I am younger at heart, yearning for days gone by. But by losing the gaming quality, it feels like the community has drifted apart, and instead of a watering hole for offline gamers, our site's become more of simply hanging on. I believe that it is that quality that had driven this community, and without it, it seems to have slowed. Back to the days leading up to MMOT-armageddon, blogs would last a day or two, three at most, before new ones pushed them down. Forums were rarely touched in making new threads, as many typically drifted to existing ones. Now, blogs would stay on the recent list for a week or more, and new threads are generally about some senseless, pointless ramble or some new video one found.

Perhaps what I'm saying is, other than the very VuTales here, there's little theme that ties us together anymore, like games used to in MMOTales.

Edit: @Dustin: I'm not saying that the coming together on mutual interests is incorrect or anything. In fact, it's something that I feel still benefits me on a personal level. But without something, anything, a singular quality of similarity (or a collection of similar qualities, or whatnot), I feel that this site's becoming less and less... original, perhaps, and lapses into a similar mishmash that Profil3 looks like.

...Damn, I'm rambling too much.


Hehe... not quite a fanfic.

Anyways, I think you're just young. You're like 15 or something right? Responsibilities and freedom increase quickly with age during the late teens. That's where a lot of the community is. That means lots of time and energy spent on things you never had to care for before and lots of time and energy spent on things you never cared about before. I've basically got 6 free hours each weekday, and I've got to spend a lot of that doing necessary things (cleaning, preparing for tomorrow, preparing food, etc.). All of that stuff you listed takes a lot of time when combined. I used to write 2 pages each day for my The Boy Was Lucky fan fic because I was stuck at my mom's school with nothing to do. I don't have time for something like that any more.


Actually, I'm older than 15. I'm well aware of said responsibilities and freedoms (or lack thereof). That's probably why I havn't made so many blogs or posts myself. I generally have less than 6 free hours on weekdays of which I'm at school, due to transportation issues, school hours, homework, chores and necessities. Considering that's before I spend my time possibly cleaning, prepping for tomorrow, cooking burning food, I still try to find time to at least peek around the corner and check up on VuTales more so than Facebook.

I understand how people in this community change. However, I sense that this change is because the site's main attraction (which was gaming) is gone. Back yonder, even the more... "elderly" of the community had the same kind of spunk as the younger newbies (albeit with more literacy).

I sincerely hope that the nutritional science class will help me with my cooking capabilities. If not, then I hope NATO legalizes flamethrowers for wartime use. :P

 
 
Tue Aug 24, 2010 06:46 AM +
Pirkid
Write drunk, edit sober.

I am planning on creating a slew of blogs soon, about my new fanfic, some game reviews, and SCII. And ATI cards.


But it's just...life catches up, man, and you find yourself cornered with no time.

 
 
Wed Aug 25, 2010 01:43 AM +
FunnyFroggy
JESSICA JUNG!<3

Blizzard maps are teh sux. The only good maps are the Korean maps. Blizzard maps are imbal, with the exception of Lost Temple.
Also, computer players are teh sux.

/assume you were playing computers

 

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