hahaha yeah i know how you feel...
i guess after 2 years for me and 1.5 for my friends, the experience has kinda reached a plateau...
but we still grind for BBs for that seemingly never-coming promise of an MVP card that will help us reach a somewhat higher plateau...
and yes, it took me about a year before i finally got a trans, but i still think as a casual player i'm doing quite fine...
my wife loves doing the repeatable quests, especially making money out of haircut coupons -- she's the most stable supplier of them for our server it seems... she kinda hates how the hatter doesn't give us anything good anymore, but i keep urging her to keep doing the quest...
and yeah, i guess i understand how you feel about the guilds...
i was kinda lucky i guess, more indonesians started popping up the last 6 months, so at least it gave me and my wife some more reasons to stick around to help them and whatnot...
all in all, i think what makes ppl stay is that promise of friendship and casual talk and some odd dungeon runs once in a while... and the crooked hat really makes it fun too, at least ppl can get together and get their donkey whipped being the noobs they are hahahah
it's a good thing too, to be able to try out mvps in a controlled environment, at least a taster before they get to see how disastrous it can be out there

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anyway, i really wonder how long the server can last... i mean correct me if i'm wrong, but RO is probably the longest-lasting MMORPG out there... would be fun to see it outlive officials... hope it never goes down... <3 Panda for that
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