When is the last time you played?
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@Ashkuri said in When is the last time you played?:
For those who haven’t RP’d in several years, what keeps you checking in/weighing in on the forum? I’m referring here to the forum parts specifically about MUSHing and RP, not the social/ooc parts like RL support, pets, books, dead people, etc.
The assocations I’ve made with people over the years and then harp on myself internally that I don’t keep in touch with those same people as well as I should.
I keep hoping something comes along and grabs my attention like previous games did, but after two years, ever since the end of Arx, nothing has really stuck. Or the things I was playing just wasn’t holding my attention.
And with many people moving to play-by-post(like what Ares does and I say that with no hate), it just can’t keep my attention the way it used to.
So like many people, the ‘spark’ as other say, just isn’t really there. But still, I remember the good and bad through the multiple sites. SWOFA, WORA, MSB, and now here. While I’m not around nearly as much as I have been, there’s still a tether that keeps me occasionally popping in and checking.
Maybe, it’s just out of the vain hope that some ‘new hottness’ will appear and grab everyone’s attention like some games used to. And if for nothing else, the drama threads those games would create here. I never really played The Reach, but man did I love reading about it’s drama.
I don't know what I'm doing. Poke at Seven Nations sevennations.aresmush.com port 2021
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@Testament said in When is the last time you played?:
Maybe, it’s just out of the vain hope that some ‘new hottness’ will appear and grab everyone’s attention like some games used to. And if for nothing else, the drama threads those games would create here. I never really played The Reach, but man did I love reading about it’s drama.
I don’t think it’s vain. I think it’s fair to say that we’ve gone from a constant stream of cool new hotness stuff to waves, and the time between the waves grows longer. Eventually though, I suspect it will be retro enough that it will make a big comeback.
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Something could be the coolest, best, most interesting theme in the world, but if someone doesn’t engage with it, they’re going to be disappointed. I’ve had some of the most fun on games with themes that aren’t my favorite at all.
We’ve all seen the “waves” come and go, and honestly it comes down to the fact that a large amount of folks don’t take initiative to engage beyond “oh hey this is new and everyone’s here.” The amount of fun we have on these games is really pretty largely up to us, and it doesn’t require newness or hotness. It requires effort.
Of course if things don’t grab us, there’s no reason to force it, but this take has always been weird to me. Even in the “heyday” of MUSHes, you had to engage. Maybe we had more time or more energy or whatever the case may be (I certainly understand that for my own self), but the way to hook in has always remained the same.
