At the end of my rope.

20,000 anger/flame posts are probably made per day about this game.  To make something different for once, I will not flame this game.

Instead, I turn my attention to the "wonderful community" of this game, the community whom I have complimented time after time again.

While I love this game and this community, I find myself in a very difficult spot.  You all see, I am at the end of my rope with dealing with this community's bull.  Certainly, there was a certain event involving faction membership that has recently sent me over the edge, but it's more than just that.

The problem here is that every single time I log into this game, I get bad news.  I never get any good news when I play this game... I just get more bad news.  People who I talk to know that it's gotten so bad that I've retreated back into Second Life and World of Warcraft, just because Second Life is pretty much drama-free and the World of Warcraft community is too *CENSORED* to properly figure out how to make MxO Style drama.

I log in and I find out people leave my faction without telling me.  I log in and I find out people are recruiting members out of my faction like rabid wolves, attempting to bolster their numbers so they look on top.  I log in to find out how OB made my organization look bad again.  I log in to hear people complaining about RP.  I log in to find event spam in my mail box.  I log in to hear about how the event spam I got was the worst event so and so ever attended and that so and so can do better.  I log in to find jealousy and hatred.

I log in to find that this community has gone completely insane.

I'm at fault too... I've attributed to some of it, and I don't deny that.  But over the past couple of months, this community has gone from one of the best, to one of the best-LOOKING.  When you really get down to it, everyone is a Merovingian anymore.  Everyone wants power, fame, fortune on some level and is willing to do what it takes to get it, even if it means pissing someone else off OOC.  Gone are the days where we were enemies on paper and friends in RL.  Those days are replaced with power grabbing and RP/PvP bickering and real hatred that spills off of the paper and into real life.

There was a thread where someone asked why we even bother to play anymore.  In response to that thread, I said I didn't know why I played anymore.  Now, I think I am about 2 seconds away from finding that cancel button and throwing all of this away.  Not because this game blows, but because the community finally drove me off of a ledge.

Maybe I'm wrong.  Maybe I'm overreacting.  But I simply don't know why I continue to play a game that has kicked me in the shins so many times.  It's like Bart Simpson with the electrified cupcake... I keep coming back just to get burned again.

What's the point of this thread?  Here's the point:  Give me a reason to actually care about this game.  I'll take anything except the "we love you Return, don't leave" act.  I don't find that to be a vaild reason to play this game anymore, because too many of our fellow community members have proven that statement to be false through their actions.

I'll keep an eye on this thread.  If the mods delete it or lock it, so be it.  It probably will deserve it, but I just wanted to get my concerns and true feelings out there to our lovely server community.