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Late this past week I rage quit. It was sudden, as rage quitting often is. I never expected it to happen. I really didn't. There were a few changes here and there that I didn't like but I didn't think I would stop playing. I loved massive and all its people. I loved the lands and the chat, the lore items and the rp. All the games and festivals were so much fun! Massivecraft became my minecraft home. I would log in every day. Things were going really well. I'd set up a small empire (at least in my head) and had amassed a decent amount of money. I had almost 35 chests full of all sorts of items I'd found. Mostly lore items and little valuables. That's how I made my living. Finding and selling. I was sitting pretty with a bunch of homes, I had even just rented one in the city. I had massive towers that I created to maximize land usage and I was proud of them! One in particular. You can do a lot with one chunk if you make it vertical! I loved that idea. It appealed to my scifi, futuristic sensibility. (I love stuff like blade runner with huge futuristic cities) That I suppose would lead to the beginning of the end of my love affair with massivecraft. Those darn towers. But more on that in a moment.
When I found massivecraft I was amazed! I came from a tiny little server that had, at most, 30 people on it at a time. When I saw that massive had a couple hundred I couldn't believe my eyes! I know now that there are servers with thousands but massive strikes this nice middle ground where it's not so big that you feel drowned out but it's big enough that you feel like it's always there. This made the server feel a live and real and gave it a sense of community that I'd never seen before. I love that. It gave me incentive to build because I knew there would always be someone to see it. The world felt persistent. I know I was a bit anti-social. I didn't interact a lot. But the option was always there if I wanted it and when I did interact with other people it was very rewarding!
The Problems...
I loved to role play as a vampire. I mean I frigging loved it! And it wasn't just person to person rp, no. This was some kind of weird meta-rp in my head. I don't know what I was doing but I really enjoyed pretending like I was a vampire running through the night, jumping from rooftop to rooftop in the regalia, spying on people and feeding on the occasional sheep. I thought that the vampire plugin was fanfriggintastic and then it was gone! In an instant one of my favorite parts of the server was gone and I was stuck living like everyone else. I didn't feel super spesh anymore! Losing the vamp plugin sucked and it really was the first nail in the coffin (puns right?) for me and massive. Sure it was great to be able to walk around in the sun again but I still wasn't happy. It wasn't like having to put up with massive restore or taxes, this ruined the game play for me. I understand why it was removed and that it may even return one day, though a lot of people didn't like it and are quite happy to have it gone so I would not count on it. In short, this all bummed me out.
I adapted though! I thought okay, I can work with this! I kept on playing and still enjoyed it. Then one day last week I logged on and I had a message. The message told me that my tower had been partially restored after being deleted because it violated the rules! Immediately I high tailed it to fender to see what was happening. When I got there I was devastated. My tower, my favorite thing that I've ever built in any minecraft world I've EVER played, was GONE! In it's place lay a small nub sticking out of the ground. I got upset and I wrote the mod who did it. He said it was a unanimous thing between several mods. He said it violated the build rules! But how!? I was told that it didn't. I'd even had mods look at it before and I was told that you could build whatever you wanted if it wasn't for rp purposes, so I did! I went back and looked at the rules on the site though and it does say keep it medieval. The problem is I didn't join massive cause it was medieval. I joined it because of the community and the open maps. Plus I don't like medieval things! I can't help it, I love futuristic scifi things! That's when it dawned on me. I wasn't going to be able to play on massive anymore. I had become accustomed to playing the game a certain way, my way, and I knew from that moment on I wouldn't be able to. If they were gonna come after that tower they would definitely come after my manufacturing tower. That thing was gigantic. A huge 4 chunk tower that stretched into the sky, they'd be at it with torches and pitchforks! And what about my plantation home? That wasn't medieval either. Would I log on one day to find it just suddenly gone too? I freaked out... kind of a lot and went into self destruct mode. I said forget it and immediately decided to quit. I was already stressed out because of school so I imagine I was really more upset about school than anything but it didn't matter. I made my mind up in an instant and set to work tearing town all that I had built. First I gave away all the quartz in my house. Tons of the stuff. Then I set the place on fire. After that I went to my main storage place and started burning chest after chest of lore items and valuables. Diamond blocks, gold blocks, lapis, anything and everything went into the fire. I was on a tear and it took me an hour and a half to burn everything I owned. After that I gave away all my money, took one last look at my place, and then left...
The problem is not a day has gone by that I don't want to get back on. I miss it you guys. I miss it a lot. I don't know what to do with my free time now! WTF. But that is part of the problem. I was spending WAY too much time on minecraft. Instead of studying, minecraft, Instead of going out, minecraft. Minecraft minecraft minecraft! So maybe it was just time for me to stop. Maybe I was just looking for a reason? I'm getting older and I've got a lot of important crap I have to do now. I mean it's kinda obvious that I took the game way too seriously and that's not cool. I need to unplug and live a normal life. A REAL life. I was compensating for my real life by living a virtual one that I had complete control over. That may be tmi but it's the truth and it's real. So as sad as I am to see it go, it's time I moved on. I'll always cherish the time I spent on this great server and I'll always miss it but part of growing up is making sucky but necessary decisions and I've made mine. Miss you all and I hope you have a Merry Christmas.
Spacegravity4me
When I found massivecraft I was amazed! I came from a tiny little server that had, at most, 30 people on it at a time. When I saw that massive had a couple hundred I couldn't believe my eyes! I know now that there are servers with thousands but massive strikes this nice middle ground where it's not so big that you feel drowned out but it's big enough that you feel like it's always there. This made the server feel a live and real and gave it a sense of community that I'd never seen before. I love that. It gave me incentive to build because I knew there would always be someone to see it. The world felt persistent. I know I was a bit anti-social. I didn't interact a lot. But the option was always there if I wanted it and when I did interact with other people it was very rewarding!
The Problems...
I loved to role play as a vampire. I mean I frigging loved it! And it wasn't just person to person rp, no. This was some kind of weird meta-rp in my head. I don't know what I was doing but I really enjoyed pretending like I was a vampire running through the night, jumping from rooftop to rooftop in the regalia, spying on people and feeding on the occasional sheep. I thought that the vampire plugin was fanfriggintastic and then it was gone! In an instant one of my favorite parts of the server was gone and I was stuck living like everyone else. I didn't feel super spesh anymore! Losing the vamp plugin sucked and it really was the first nail in the coffin (puns right?) for me and massive. Sure it was great to be able to walk around in the sun again but I still wasn't happy. It wasn't like having to put up with massive restore or taxes, this ruined the game play for me. I understand why it was removed and that it may even return one day, though a lot of people didn't like it and are quite happy to have it gone so I would not count on it. In short, this all bummed me out.
I adapted though! I thought okay, I can work with this! I kept on playing and still enjoyed it. Then one day last week I logged on and I had a message. The message told me that my tower had been partially restored after being deleted because it violated the rules! Immediately I high tailed it to fender to see what was happening. When I got there I was devastated. My tower, my favorite thing that I've ever built in any minecraft world I've EVER played, was GONE! In it's place lay a small nub sticking out of the ground. I got upset and I wrote the mod who did it. He said it was a unanimous thing between several mods. He said it violated the build rules! But how!? I was told that it didn't. I'd even had mods look at it before and I was told that you could build whatever you wanted if it wasn't for rp purposes, so I did! I went back and looked at the rules on the site though and it does say keep it medieval. The problem is I didn't join massive cause it was medieval. I joined it because of the community and the open maps. Plus I don't like medieval things! I can't help it, I love futuristic scifi things! That's when it dawned on me. I wasn't going to be able to play on massive anymore. I had become accustomed to playing the game a certain way, my way, and I knew from that moment on I wouldn't be able to. If they were gonna come after that tower they would definitely come after my manufacturing tower. That thing was gigantic. A huge 4 chunk tower that stretched into the sky, they'd be at it with torches and pitchforks! And what about my plantation home? That wasn't medieval either. Would I log on one day to find it just suddenly gone too? I freaked out... kind of a lot and went into self destruct mode. I said forget it and immediately decided to quit. I was already stressed out because of school so I imagine I was really more upset about school than anything but it didn't matter. I made my mind up in an instant and set to work tearing town all that I had built. First I gave away all the quartz in my house. Tons of the stuff. Then I set the place on fire. After that I went to my main storage place and started burning chest after chest of lore items and valuables. Diamond blocks, gold blocks, lapis, anything and everything went into the fire. I was on a tear and it took me an hour and a half to burn everything I owned. After that I gave away all my money, took one last look at my place, and then left...
The problem is not a day has gone by that I don't want to get back on. I miss it you guys. I miss it a lot. I don't know what to do with my free time now! WTF. But that is part of the problem. I was spending WAY too much time on minecraft. Instead of studying, minecraft, Instead of going out, minecraft. Minecraft minecraft minecraft! So maybe it was just time for me to stop. Maybe I was just looking for a reason? I'm getting older and I've got a lot of important crap I have to do now. I mean it's kinda obvious that I took the game way too seriously and that's not cool. I need to unplug and live a normal life. A REAL life. I was compensating for my real life by living a virtual one that I had complete control over. That may be tmi but it's the truth and it's real. So as sad as I am to see it go, it's time I moved on. I'll always cherish the time I spent on this great server and I'll always miss it but part of growing up is making sucky but necessary decisions and I've made mine. Miss you all and I hope you have a Merry Christmas.
Spacegravity4me
