The Daily Grind: When have you said goodbye?

When the guild got more militant and regimental for raiding I told them they were acting like Nazi's and left. I stayed friends with some of the more liberal types who remained but they left soon after.

I don't miss the jackboot types from that guild at all (i.e. management)

I will refrain from naming the guild since it would be nasty to stir up things. That would make me more like them and there little demonization exercises to eliminate political rivals and free thinkers. No thanks.

I said good bye to Warhammer Online when I jumped back in all excited to see the changes and found many of the same bugs that existed from the start and a complete wasteland void of players. I played for 5 more levels and then sadly uninstalled and said good bye to WAR. Too many games and too little time to waste it on this.

I miss my friends in Starwars Galaxies. I played a Smuggler named Brike on the Eclipse server. I played with a Russian named DaKennY. We had so much fun and I miss those days really. The best MMO experience i've ever had.

I hope a new release of it will be announced and that I finally should be able to return and enjoy the game with new faces.

Tough I really miss the times. The guild and the adventures. DaKennY, Finrod, Tzadok and all the other awesome guys. :p

The connections I made in WoW where so awesome I left twice. The only reason I went back was because of the group I ran with. I even had to buy the game again to return(BC). Most of us still keep up through email, and a small group plays LoTRO at the time. GSM all the way suckas!!!

This article actually makes me a little sad. I guess I've never really thought about how MANY friends and guild mates have disappeared along the way. Between 3 years or so of DAOC and 6 of WoW, not to mention a few months here and there of almost every major MMO attempt made in the same time period (ok, so not so much lately, there's just too many to try em all these days) I've lost contact with just a whole lot of people, many whom i considered friends even though we've never actually met. :)

So ..while i can't just sit and mention everyone, I would like to give a /salute to all my old comrades and enemies on Kay server from DAOC ... especially those from our guild, . You guys were the best, and many of you taught me a lot about these games we all love. Sometimes I think about how much I miss the old DAOC days, and while the game was the best, and I miss the fights, my characters, and the game itself - I guess the people I played with (and against) are what I miss the most.

Facebook to the rescue? Adding guild mates takes but a second. While I don't really share much with them now that I am gone, I know how to contact them if i return or find another game they should try. And let's face it...you should only be posting stuff on there that you don't mind being public in the first place, so a few close guild friends isn't a privacy problem either.

For some reason it didn't print the name of the damn guild in my post above, no idea why ... just to clarify ..My message was for people who played on the Kay server in DAOC, especially those in the Midgard guild, Fury. You guys are the best.

I miss my friends from Ragnarok Online! Back some 4 years ago... Some I kept in touch, very few though. Awesome group that would make grinding fun.

Na, if we really care about each other, we all leave at the same time, have some vacation and try to return to another game to continue spreading our colonization hah. We just take a break ranging from 1 to 2 years from mmos. We continue to play SPs, coops, in the meantime, when the next nice mmo is rdy we play it whitout comparisons. In the end.. we continue to see each other here and there on the gaming comunity.

Best experience I've had was in WoW, pre-BC in the Iron Jackals guild on Darkspear. Everyone was so helpful to one another and there was a strong sense of community. We were fairly successful at raiding, but there was so much more to it than that. Unfortunately, I was only 14-15 at the time and too immature to really notice how good it was, and left in search of hardcore raiding. Biggest gaming mistake I've ever made. I'd love to play something with the core of those guys again

My little WoW guild (Shotgun Bunnies) has been playing together for four years on the Azuremyst-US server. Those guys are awesome, and we've shared some amazing memories. They kept me playing WoW long past when I'd lost interest in the game. Although I quit WoW for good a year ago, and many of the others have moved on to other things also, we're still in touch via Facebook, the phone, etc. Some of us live near each other and get to hang out.

"Spend enough time in any game, and you're bound to form connections."

My first stint in WoW was like that: good guild, lots of good times.

But lately, not so much. I dabble in gaming -- a few months here, a few months there, usually with multiple characters. So, no connections anymore and no goodbyes when I ultimately leave for another game.

I like the "alive" feeling of MMOs versus SPRPGs, I like the active economies and auction houses, and I like and the occasional unexpected group formations and dungeon runs.

But as for real friendships, I look for those out IRL. My gaming habits are just too sporadic and haphazard nowadays to form friendships in-game.

I've left and returned to Final Fantasy XI (under two accounts) due to my favorite job updates (though the job itself is a nightmare before it becomes a job of fun). I really came back for the friends that I have made (even though some have quit the game or left for another). They don't seem to have an interest outside of the game and I decided I would just play the game off and on; one month I will play the next I won't. I don't use facebook and if I wasn't shy I would use a chat program to talk to them (better yet a great friend that I befriended in a third linkshell I was in).

A very long time ago in World of Warcraft I had a Night Elf hunter. My very first pet Sabre had been with me for 3 years. When I finaly decided to give up the character, I brought Sabre to one of the pools near Tedrasil and let him go. It was an emotional moment.

Man, I remember when my guild from EverQuest made the move to Dark Age of Camelot, and I couldn't follow because my computer couldn't run DAoC and there was no convincing my parents I needed a new computer to play some stupid game that I still had to pay for monthly even though I'd already bought the disc. It was pretty rough!

Usually I don't play games long enough to form a connection. I had many spot-connections, where you play with someone for a few hours as you both do the same quests or missions.

However, I did hangout with a girl & boy on World of Warcraft for a very long time. They let me into all sorts of dungeons when everyone else dismissed me for lack of perfect gear. Nice to hangout with them, but eventually all my real life friends backed out of the game. After one disappointment after another, I left the game. I still remember all the good times.

I've been fortunate enough to make some good acquaintances in a few games over the years, which is a double-edged halberd because i am not currently involved with those games and no longer gaming with those same cool people because my interest in the game has waned. Shout out to Paragon City Defense Fleet (CoH - Infinity server), Bricks and Mordor (LotRO - Vilya server), Among the Shadows (Darkfall, EU1 server), and to all those who've made gaming a much more enjoyable pastime for my various alts over the years. The personality of the community (and therefore it's individual players) is the one aspect of any game which the devs have little control over but yet ultimately makes or breaks the game, and i have some fantastic memories thanks to the participation of genuine players across many virtual realms.