Thank you everyone for the memories :)

[Zadrian]

Goodluck brother, don't sweat the small stuff.

[Arkyani]

Originally Posted by Bruman [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I feel I need to respond to this quick bit:



That's not really a fair thing to say. I know some of the people you're referring to, and it was due to how it was handled. We found out because someone knew the person who bought your account, not hearing it from you first.

Some members felt the guild had invested a lot of time into your toons, and this robbed that investment. You can't claim to not be about loot or care at all, when you stripped and sold them for PP, for a game you said you were done with. It's just some obvious hypocrisy. You obviously cared more about taking the time to sell all your droppables and sell the account (which would've taken time) than telling the guild what was happening. That's why people are upset.

I didn't really want to put such statements in a goodbye thread, but you can't make wrong statements about people caring "more about loot than friendship" without me calling bullshit on it.

Anywhos, I personally don't care what you did with your toon, loot, pp, whatever, but hope you get your RL shit straightened out! Good luck man!

Just to respond to this.. I only sold 3 items from my rogue (offhand, idol, and some other little thing I forgot) and zero from my enchanter. If that counts as stripping a character then some people play their whole lives with a stripped melee. Granted the off-hand was worth quite a bit, it was bought with money I acquired myself. The only dropable item I ever got from a guild raid was a sebilite croaking dirk. Any other time I received loot it was defaulted to me since it would have rotted if I didnt loot it. I waited until everybody was geared before I bothered with mine. Any time someone else could use something that dropped, I passed on it. If I cared about loot I wouldn't give away 20k worth of gear every few weeks. I still most likely have 30k worth of gear lent out to the guild that I didn't bother asking for back since it never was a big deal to me to begin with. Granted the guild did help with killing Renux and General for my epic, that took a whole ten minutes. Not saying I didnt appreciate it, because everyone was always helpful any time anyone needed it, its just that it seemed that some people were more worried about losing my loot then losing a friend.

So no, it wasn't hypocritical in any way. I spent years doing nothing but helping everyone, and instead of a "man, it sucks that ark left", its "man, he should have gave us the one item back that he got from a raid."

I just never expected people in the guild to be like that I guess.

And just to mention, although I wanted it to be a surprise but its relevant to this post, I still haven't worked out my going away presents. I have over 100k in pp that I've decided to give out out to friends. THATS why I sold my dropables.

Although lastly, I do agree I could of said something, but it wasnt exactly something I planned. It was just one day I realized how much to shit things in my life have went and that day I said screw this, I'm going to do something about it. It wasnt exactly the most thought out thing, but I hope it works at least..

[arsenalpow]

Originally Posted by Arkyani [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I I just never expected people in the guild to be like that I guess...

This isn't about the pixels. We contacted Amelinda immediately when we realized arky was no longer in your control, we were positive you had been hacked. Some people, including myself, were upset because we were blindsided. Thats the beef.

It's moot though, what's done is done. Get your RL together. See ya around.

[Arkyani]

I totally understand that part, that wasnt at all what I was referring too. I thought it was awesome you guys went through such great lengths to verify that it was indeed true. I couldnt of asked for more. If in the event that someones account was hacked, I could only pray that their friends were as quick to finding out as mine. I seriously appreciated that.

And as for real life.. yea. me too.. I think thats one of the reasons I enjoyed p1999 so much. Its the one place I could really help people out and have a good time, instead of what was happening out of game. But after so long of ignoring a problem by doing something else, it only gets worse. And finally I just had to do something rash, and I did. I do regret not letting people know sooner though.

[Yajirobe Yajipants]

Good luck to you, Arky. Whether or not you return to EQ, I hope things in the real world work out the best way for you.

[Labyrrinth]

Good Luck Arky [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Hope you get things sorted out

[Shrooms]

Goodluck Arkyyyyyy.

I always enjoyed playing with you and I wish you the best of luck in the future.

[Rasah]

I'll miss you Arky.

[Cyph]

I never met you but you sound like a top bloke. Sad to see you go

[Grozmok]

TLDR

Can I have your stuff?







(In all seriousness, losing a good player is never a good thing. This game only survives when there are people around to play it!)