The MMORPG that has grew up with me ever since when i was Primary 6.
The days when the graphics were crappy, yet kept us contented.
When we will not waste a single second from being online, killing NPCs with friends, or just walking into Wildy for the thrill.
Training skills repeatedly,when you know that it is dumb to continuously press the same buttons and not learn anything from it. Yet you do not want to fall behind your friends in your skill levels.
Then alas, there came a time when your friends started leaving the game.
One by one, till you are the only one left.
You were there to witness all the improvements in the game.
The new skills, training areas and quests which were released.
You even signed up to be a member to fully access all the skills and areas in RuneScape.
Though after going through IT studies, you realized that what you have been playing all this time has actually been programmed and created by someone.
That avatar which you had been training for years, was actually no more than bits and bytes, easily erased from the Database by the administrator. You will forever be in the mercy of the game creators, with just a simple click you might have never existed in RuneScape at all.
But you are obliged to continue playing the game, after so much effort had been put into it.
All the memories which you could not let got off. Though repetitive but yet exciting times of slashing monsters and hoping for a rare item drop. And when you do? You will broadcast to the world, saying you have received a super rare item from an NPC(non-player controlled).
Why are you so happy? It has been programmed to drop rare items based on a mathematical calculation, your luck to receive that particular rare item is actually controlled by another human being. Isn't it laughable? Yet you still feel this sense of achievement, while the other human being is actually laughing his ass off to how much time you have committed to getting that rare item.
But i have to say, RuneScape is programmed really well. The places which have been created virtually can actually be embedded deeply in my heart at certain points of time in my life.
Some gave you a sense of tranquility, others a sense of excitement and fear of the unknown.
The music constantly ring through your ears, reminding you off all the places you have been in RuneScape. The experiences with friends, no matter happiness or sadness or perhaps even anger.
You still do not want to let go of the game because of all these wonderful memories.
The quests which bring such a magical feel and how you wish RuneScape was real.
Then as you got older, and more mature.
You realized that your time in the game was long over, the time for the younger generation to take power in RuneScape has arrived.
None of your friends play the game any longer, and what wonderful memories you have of the game shall forever remain as unforgettable memories.
You eventually stop playing the game altogether, but yet still reminisce the times secretly.
Knowing that your friends have moved on to greater things, and you shall not fall behind.
Yet sometimes with the rare stumbles upon names of places in RuneScape, the Nostalgia just totally fills you up.
You feel like crying, yet not till the extent of tears being formed.
Your heart feels heavy with the taste of sourness feeling your senses.
But you do know that the experiences you have had in RuneScape shall forever be left in the past and will only exist as good memories in your heart.
You can go right back to RuneScape and start playing again, but the feeling, the emotions felt, will never ever be same as those felt in the past, when the graphics were still shitty and botters were running rampant around RuneScape.
Somethings just have to be kept the same, to preserve the experiences experienced, the feelings and emotions felt.
But it can never happen with the world we live in today.
Everything is forever progressing, for the better. New experiences will be experienced and new feelings will be felt, but no one feeling felt on any occasion will be the same as another.
So i shall with a heavy heart officially announce that i have left RuneScape, the virtual magical which has left me with so many wonderful memories of my childhood gaming life.
I shall forever remember this game, it has been part of my childhood and teenage life.
Hopefully the experiences i have had in the game will benefit me in the future as i proceed on to enter young adulthood.
Thank You Jagex for creating such a wonderful game, many more children will come to benefit from your creation with generations to come.
Thank You 'Qibai' (if you were actually a real person lol), my avatar in RuneScape.
I created 'you' with the imagination of my dream girl.
A young but yet skilled maiden warrior, who is stood in awe and inspires the good, but feared by the evil.
Intellectual and yet willing to share. Born gorgeous but yet humble.
Always there to help friends whom are in need. (of course monetary issues are sensitive lol, not just in real life but in Runescape too)
'You' are the maiden whom all warriors wish to be with.
Good bye 'Qibai', Thanks so so much for all the memories.
You shall forever be in my heart. Good bye Runescape, it has been a good 5 years.
Continue to improve and i shall come back to see you one day.
It is time for me to move on...........................................................
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