You know....the thing about posting something to the Forums is that, regardless of when you post it, it's gonna be there for a while and there's always the chance that someone
is gonna read it.
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As a matter of fact, I read it a couple of times, just to be sure I got it all..
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So anyways, you make a ton of good points, but what really stands out for me is that when you say, quite rightly for so many of us, that we don't so much want something new, as we want the features we already have to be allowed to reach their potential.
zOMG! has all these little doorways all over the game...tiny, teasing hints about what's to come and all most of us ever asked was that a few of these doors be opened to us.
I know I always hoped to be able to explore more of Uncle Kin's world, and honestly expected that some day, I would actually find Mark's Ring somewhere around Bass'ken.
When you consider the potential that zOMG!'s story line had at the outset...all those little dangling threads throughout the game, waiting to be drawn together and woven into the next chapter, and the next, and the next, the care and creativity of it's creators is obvious.
You just have to know that they had so much planned for their game, and for us.
And when you look at all the concept art that has been dangled in front of us by the artists and devs, you have to know that they still loved the game, and still wanted to explore the possibilities and fulfill the promises of it's intial release.
As busted up as we are, I can only imagine how heart broken some of them must be.
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For them, it must be almost like losing a loved one.
I've looked at the slides of the "New Hotness" (nice M.I.B. reference there!
cool , and I can't deny that it's visually spectacular, but it certainly isn't zOMG!, and while anything any of us has to say about it is pure speculation at this point, it certainly doesn't look like it would allow us to use our Avvy's and wear all of the outfits we've lovingly chased and put together of the years.
Neither does it seem to have zOMG!'s wonderful quirkiness that has been a huge part of it's appeal for me.
If indeed it comes to pass that zOMG! is relegated to the shelf, never to see another update or Event, I'll still play because, even though I'm pretty much a non-entity here for the most part, zOMG! is my Home base on Gaia, and it has become something special to me.
To leave now would feel like I was abandoning a friend right when they needed me most, and that's just not part of who I am.
So I'm staying.
Only time will tell what's going to happen and how long we've got, but for now at least, zOMG! remains the same as it's always been, and what it has always been works for me.
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