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Are you happy about starting over and losing everything ?
GloomySunday
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I know that some people are really happy that they get to start over and begin their journey anew,but are you happy about losing all you've worked for ? I know that some people have worked for years on their characters,gaining items,and levelling up etc,so it doesn't seem very fair to lose all of that.It also doesn't seem vary fair that people have spent actual money on this game,and they cannot keep what they've bought over the years.
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Am I happy to start anew? - I absolutely am! We have a new team of GMs, we have better host, they promise us better and faster server hardware and we, as a community, get a chance to fix mistakes of the past.
Am I happy to lose things I worked 8 years for? - Of course not! Why would I be? The amount of time I spent on OGP LT is ridiculous! But life is life, bad happens and you just move on. The only other option you get is to stay in the same place, grieving and moaning over the things you once had, until you kick the bucket.
I am sorry for your loss but we are all in the same boat. The reason OGP refused to transfer our character data to Papaya is unknown and will remain so, I believe. As for the money you spent on OGP - well, it was OGP, not Papaya. These are two different companies and the later does not bear financial responsibilities of the former.
Starting over is gonna be thoroughly fun so I look forward to playing again soon. never spent much cash on the game so stats not a big deal to me.
However I'm not terribly sad about it either. I played really consistently 2008-2012 but after that I entered Uni and got reduced down to playing maybe a week or so every summer was all. I kept coming back to La Tale because I all but grew up with it, but it was impossible to get back into with a guild and buddy list full of people who had also stopped playing, not to mention missing a whole year's worth of content each time. I mean I was stoked when S2 came out back in like... 2013 I think? Then before I knew it "Season 3" was plastered all over and I was like "wait what?".
Additionally I always played this game pretty casually, my original first character, Rhonder the bard, only ever ended up getting to level 182 after all those years. So in all honesty catching back up wont take that long anymore. It was different in S1 where you had to grind Crabs and Neo Navies for hours to get levels up to 100, it's super quick now lol. And more than anything, this fresh start (and me myself being fresh out of uni and therefore having more time again) is probably the only thing that might entice me to start playing again consistently. I was no joke just last week thinking about how I might start looking into an MMO again, so if that wasn't a sign I don't know what is~
While I haven't played the game in a while (it suddenly stopped working after an update, sometime after Wanderer) It's a game I have serious loyalty to. And when I say loyalty, I mean I was an OGP LaTale Closed Beta Tester. I literally stayed with the game for that long. And had, at one point, brought issues the community had with the game to OGP. And not only that, I played, EVERY class, since the beginning. I had all of them and aside Sorcerer they were all above level 140. My Wanderer had just graced the 200 mark, I had a guild that a fought tooth and nail for it not to be stolen from me, emotes you couldn't get, even the CBT Emote. All the intense hours of gathering funds to keep my characters afloat, the astro clothes I bought and enchanted, the potions I saved, the hours of armor work and skill books I paid for. It's all gone. It hurts, allot, I know the cliche "it's just pixels" but those pixels had a million memories, good and bad, in them.
That being said, and as heart wrenching as it is. The path to this new LaTale is both a fresh air and one of some worry. Worry about the new server (As a player from California who witnessed
players from East Coast and beyond struggle with latency, and then
having the same issue when OGP switched to East Coast this is worrisome) the worry about how the new community will fair, the new Server Rush all games have. But it does give newer players a chance to start without concern, and have experienced players on the path with them. This is also the chance for experienced players to help build a stronger community (one without dealing with other Side Scrolling MMO mentalities from the beginning) And who knows, maybe this server will be much better than OGP's East coast attempt?
So, even when losing everything, it's hard not to feel a bit excited for the uncertainties this all brings. It is like playing the game for the first time, just with experienced eyes. I just hope to be able to be a part that journey when it all begins again, as well.
I'm happy to start this game from zero again.
I don't care about losing everything. I played the game, had fun and that's it.
OGP was a mistake. AceofCucks was a mistake.
I hope I won't have to resort to making new characters to have fun again.
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