Why did you start playing? Why did you stay?

Taraus

Jurixe said:

spent the rest of my time playing Neopets 

don't tell me you quit! why would anyone ever quit!

Jurixe

Well, I still log in to play Meerca Chase and do the usual Tombola -> Coltzan's Shrine -> Fruit Machine -> Wheel of Excitement routine occasionally...granted I have no idea if any of these are still actually there!

Hataru

NOOOOOOOO I can't handle another addiction right now. Why did you bring Neopets up!

*weeps*

Taraus

Jurixe said:

Well, I still log in to play Meerca Chase and do the usual Tombola -> Coltzan's Shrine -> Fruit Machine -> Wheel of Excitement routine occasionally...granted I have no idea if any of these are still actually there!

@Jurixe, yep, they're all still there! the sites undergone a log of big changes, especially recently ~ and Meerca Chase is now Meerca Chase II !

Wizzness says, "I could do with some help, Coltzan!"
I hope this helps...

All your Neopets are healed to full health!

Larry

When I was younger I used to spend alot of time at my cousins house, and on occasion i'd see him playing this game (under the character name Teotwauki), at the time I did not see the appeal at all, but I did ask him to make me a character which I specifically remember asking to be Atavian so I could fly.. I probably lasted 5 minutes before switching to GTA or Liero. Years later in 08 I tried again on my own, understood and enjoyed it for a couple of years, and have been on and off since.

Averi

Is there a neopets achaea guild?  If not, there should totally be one.

Keres

Hataru said:

I love how much admittance of breaking the ToS and playing at younger than 13 is going on in this thread.

From pretty decently known people too.

Hataru said:

I remember it being pretty clearly stated when I joined at 13... 

Hataru said:

Can we please not derail the thread because I got amusement out of something, lets keep it to stories of how we originally got into the game, why we've stuck around, and not a "wait is this a rule" or not.

Hataru remarks on something unrelated - it's an expression of amusement. Other people remark on something amusing - it's derailing.

Hataru said:

NOOOOOOOO I can't handle another addiction right now. Why did you bring Neopets up!

*weeps*

because that's on-topic

-Irony Realms Entertainment

Trevize

It's Achaea. 'nuff said.

Taraus

Dude, there have gotta be more people buried deeply in the woodwork that play Neopets.

COME OUT, COME OUT, WHERE EVER YOU ARE.

Hataru

@Taraus I made a new neopets account.

I wasn't going to do this, but I will. @Keres the reason I tried to cut that off where that was going was because it wasn't going anywhere good it was just going to be a he-said she-said about whether it was a rule then or not and I meant the joke all in good fun, not to go if in another direction with arguments about whether something was in the ToS or not - I decided to make the comment to try and quash it after I received several messages (either agreeing or disagreeing) with me and I saw that there was nothing good that could come from it.

I'm not going to try and stop a harmless conversation, but when I see something that started as a joke of mine getting way too serious with the possibility of becoming a derailing argument I will likely try and stop it in its tracks.

Sena

Hataru said:

because it wasn't going anywhere good it was just going to be a he-said she-said about whether it was a rule then or not

There's not much room for argument there, when announce 2133 tells you the exact day the policy was created (October 18, 2005).

Kyrra

I may or may not have an active Neopets account.

Hataru

Thanks for clarifying @Sena and being the first person to actually say definitively when it was. I feel less bad being off by only 2 years, some people were telling me it was around 2007ish and I was like that I knew was wrong. Mostly just all of us being too lazy to look it up >.< and say it definitively!

Cinya

When I was a little kid, I had some friends down the street who had every new console, game, etc, as soon as it came out. One day I came over and they were playing a random text game called Medievia, which I tried for a bit, sucked horribly at, and quickly dropped. I was too young to know what I was doing at the time, but I remember being mesmerized. 

Flash forward to high school, when a then-boyfriend brought up the idea of playing a text game. I was psyched. By this time I was used to western RPGs (ie, you have 3 different “speech” options for most interactions and can’t really character-build beyond that) and forum roleplay (where god-moding and crazy-random-plot-swings run rampant), so I was really excited to play something with more realistic and controlled mechanics conducive to RP.

I think we ended up playing twice. We started characters in Mhaldor, and he insisted on doing something stupid – I think he pretended he couldn’t speak, and would only use tells/emotes – and then promptly forgot about it.

I ended up playing “for real” the first time 1-2 years later, in late high school. The aforementioned boyfriend was gone, so I just started my own character in Cyrene. I become obsessed like any good little Achaean, and had a blast for 1-2 months until my parents got mad and made me stop playing.

My first character worth anything was Cinya, whom I started several years after that out of boredom. I figured I would go check out that old text game I liked and see if it was still any good. I created Cinya originally with the intent of checking things out and then creating my REAL new character after I decided which faction I liked best… but then the engaging little community in the Dawnstriders at the time drew me in, and Cinya ended up sticking. I blame/credit @Sothantos and @*mirane almost exclusively, because they were fantastic about making sure I felt included and that I was having fun when I was a noob.

In the ~5-6ish years I’ve been playing Cinya, my life has changed a LOT. I graduated from college, got admitted to and graduated from grad school, moved across the country, and have essentially gotten my dream job. I’ve also made some pretty spectacular IRL friends via Achaea, who I often forget I initially met because of this game. I am pretty confident I’ve spent literally a minimum of 10x more time hanging out with @Adalie IRL than in-game.

Although my in-game availability has fluctuated throughout all this, I find it hard to ever imagine myself not playing Achaea at all.  The only time I went dormant is while I was kicking my ass at my first AAA studio internship for a game that was struggling to launch in a few months (they didn’t make it, not my fault!), and then researching for my grad school thesis while simultaneously spending 50+ hours per week in work/classes. I think this was a total of several months. And even then, I came back as soon as my thesis began wrapping up. It felt more unnatural not to just gravitate back.  

The crazy thing is, my story isn’t really exceptional. There was some poll-post awhile back asking how long people have played Achaea, and it looked like fewer people ever really STOP playing. I think that’s pretty incredible, and a massive testament to the world and community that @Sarapis has built and cultivated here.

/cheesy novel post

Azi

@Hataru - your harmless conversation about neopets is unrelated

also, no one was arguing, except you.. we said definitively when it wasn't a rule

Hataru

Never mind I'm not going to feed the trolls.

Achimrst

Neopet conversation:

http://forums.achaea.com/discussion/1282/neopets-c-mon-you-know-you-do#latest

Keres

Hataru said:

I'm going to stop trolling now.

ftfy

Dethea

I was looking for online gambling (totally not kidding), and somehow I came across... something? (ad, forum, something I don't remember) that mentioned Achaea and it looked really cool, so I started playing. The first character I made got deleted because I didn't play it for a long time after being completely confused. I'm not even sure why I came back, but I did (with Dethea), and all of the cool people made me stay. I'm not playing right now (thesis, internship, ugh), but I seem to make it back here once in a while.

I'd like to give a shout-out to the original Cowbell crowd (which was known for being extra griefy at one point, but I loved all the antics and chatting with you guys OOC) and also Mhaldor during that time, which I totally .

All the new(er) people are totally amazing too; this is just a wonderful gaming community!

Bluef

Keres said:

The title pretty much says it all. How did you come to start playing MUDs? Achaea specifically?

What about this MUD has kept you playing it?

Flair first introduced me to Achaea around 10 years ago (yeah, we're friggin old now!). I couldn't grasp the roleplay aspect at first. It was all text so to me it was like a weird chatroom, and I didn't come around much except to speak to him (we were dating and lived hours apart). Later I found a class and House I could really get into though and I've been playing ever since. I think the thing that has kept me playing through Bluef's good times and bad are people who I've gotten to know well OOCly and now enjoy spinning a good story with IC. People may roll their eyes at the smaller RP groups in Achaea, but to me their stories are the ones that are memorable and really make the fabric of the reality vivid and engaging. 

Sylvance

EDIT: It saddens me to see dumb arguments on the forums that aren't between me and @Cooper.

Achimrst

Amedinias said:

HIGHLY DISSATISFIED CUSTOMER^^

I got introduced to Achaea way back in 8th grade by a fellow who played as Minauros. I'd have a 15 yo character, but my original characters (Lupusan and Lupusia) were deleted because I offended some 'god'. Even back then IRE was petty.....dunno why I keep coming back here and wasting my hard earned money

Uh...wow I wasn't sure the wtf button was enough to comment on this. You my friend need a highly dissatisfied customer thread!

Sylvance

Amedinias said:

HIGHLY DISSATISFIED CUSTOMER^^

I got introduced to Achaea way back in 8th grade by a fellow who played as Minauros. I'd have a 15 yo character, but my original characters (Lupusan and Lupusia) were deleted because I offended some 'god'. Even back then IRE was petty.....dunno why I keep coming back here and wasting my hard earned money

Just ignore him, @Achimrst, he's a troll. 5 posts in and he's bombing two separate threads. Starve the mof.

Sylvance

If you want the name drop function to work, you need to remove the space between the @ and the name.

Achimrst

Sylvance said:

If you want the name drop function to work, you need to remove the space between the @ and the name.

I lol'd this because it send me a notification that you mentioned me. I am guessing I am the default for the @_blank or the @ and .... Trolled by Achaea again!

Sylvance

Well, I guess at this point you're down to two options:

a) Continue to troll this board with diminishing returns now that you've broken cover, all the while wondering why two of your characters got deleted unfairly,

b) Go and spend your hard-earned money elsewhere and have nothing at all to complain about.

The world holds its breath.

Achimrst

Sylvance said:

Well, I guess at this point you're down to two options:

a) Continue to troll this board with diminishing returns now that you've broken cover, all the while wondering why two of your characters got deleted unfairly,

b) Go and spend your hard-earned money elsewhere and have nothing at all to complain about.

The world holds its breath.

Everywhere else sucks, CoH/CoV gamers have confirmed this.

Eld

Achimrst said:

Sylvance said:

If you want the name drop function to work, you need to remove the space between the @ and the name.

I lol'd this because it send me a notification that you mentioned me. I am guessing I am the default for the @_blank or the @ and .... Trolled by Achaea again!

The notification was probably for her previous comment.

Jovolo

Yay let's all keep replying to him this is fun

Azi

Actually, Sylvance is wrong.

Continuing to troll this thread is not an option.