What will you take away from your experience with MxO?

Simple question really.

What I'll take away is the memories, the memories of the events, of meeting characters like Niobe, Gray, Pace, Veil, Cryptos, The Merovingian, Ookami.  The memories of LESIG's made events, which was awesome, and of course LESIG themselves.  I will take away hwo inspiring MxO has been in my RPing Meta's character.  I can't believe how well my RP material was, and I've never been as inspired in any other game.  However most important of all, I will take away the community, because it was the community that made MxO special, made it feel like home.

I love you guys.

A learning experience like no other. Internationalism, internet skillz, philosophical encouragement, a sense of community, personal confidence and friends for life.

keyboard warrior skillz

Use "/play" on each of your toons... count up the time and you will see how much of your life you "wasted" away . Not that that's exclusive to MXO... But think about it before starting your next MMO.

This is an open, standing invitation, if any of you guys are ever in the Charlotte, NC area.  Hit me up on XFire (you can find that on the MxO Contact List) and I'll buy you a round of beer. 

I've learned that it's much safer (and, ironically, smarter) to play the fool than the smart guy.

Herpes.

cloudwolf wrote:

A learning experience like no other. Internationalism, internet skillz, philosophical encouragement, a sense of community, personal confidence and friends for life.

This. So definitely this.

PBlade wrote:

cloudwolf wrote:

A learning experience like no other. Internationalism, internet skillz, philosophical encouragement, a sense of community, personal confidence and friends for life.

This. So definitely this.

-  Sometimes I was surprised at what emerged when I roleplayed; there was self-understanding in that.  It's been enlightening.

-  I got into trance music from listening to some of the ingame radios; it's been invigorating.

-  I saw into my children's culture and mindset from interacting with many of you; it's been invaluable to me.

-  It was good practice in manipulating and mindgames; it's been intriguing.

-  I started my first blog from writing about MxO; it's been liberating.

I've met people I'll always remember for bettter or for worse, but that's true of any five-year span in your life.  Or it should be.

ZippyTheSquirrel wrote:

I've learned that it's much safer (and, ironically, smarter) to play the fool than the smart guy.

Seconded.

How badly a company can treat customers and get away with it?

No, joking I am not going to turn a positive thread into another SOE bashing, we have enough of those.  MxO was  my first MMORPG before that  I mostly twitched alot playing racing and football(soccer) games. It has helped me through some dark times of secondary school and sixth form, leading me to go to university. I am going take away the fond memories of the friends, I made here the skills I have learn such as photoshop and even a little website design which has helped me imencely in my degree. I have learned so much I may of ignored.

I always considered myself to have poor writing skills before MxO(I still do really) but MxO has helped loads here, from roleplay to just general forum posts.

I will take away a great learning curve and something that I will fondly remember from my teenage years.

Hum, cue a long-ish post.

I'll take away a lot of memories, lessons and friends.

So many of the people I've met on here have helped me along the way in the past few years and having their perspectives and opinions are something I now value on par with my real life friends, that is something I never expected to gain having signed up for the game. I think it actually taught me to respect folk online a little more, rather than just think it's a computer or someone a million miles away I'm talking to. The people themselves will probably never know how much I value their friendships, even folk I don't speak to as regularly as others. There will, ultimately be those I'll lose touch with or perhaps never meet despite clicking so well, which is depressing to think about but that is unfortunately the way things go.

I've learned alot of lessons and gained a fair amount of self confidence at a rather uncertain time in my life and it set me on a path which I'm now determined to follow and it's a path I never really expected to open up for me, had some people not encouraged me and helped me see things as I do now, I'd probably just be getting fat working in a dead end job. Along with career and life paths, I'd say I've learned alot of lessons in dealing with situations, people and so on. All things I can take with me into every day life.

The memories are too long to list, so many many good nights enjoyed on ventrilo, in-game, at fan-faire and I'll never forget those laughs.

Hmm. Got into Funker Vogt, Front 242, Apoptygma Berzerk, Wumpscut, Covenant, Massive Attack, Einsturzende Neubauten, Portishead, and more from music posts made by exsu and Gretyl, or from trying to internet detective Vogt's identity.

Read some books and had some trippy thoughts due to 10011.

Got to chat frequently from people from different countries (UK, Scotland), which made me more aware of the different paths and perspectives we all have. Wouldn't have normally been exposed to this due to being a cultureless American.

A true appreciation for the bell curve, its implications, and that I was not born brain damaged.

A greater appreciation for experiences away from the keyboard, after I finally became disillusioned with the carrot on a string as "fun" dynamic. MXO might have some pretty graphics, but I like nature far better.

Some really funny Ventrilo recordings, some really good friends.

I found that I can have great drive and willpower in getting things done / figured out if I care intrinsically. I ended up exploiting this to teach myself some of the harder things going on in my uni subjects by making them relevant to MXO somehow. Shame I won't be able to do that anymore when I hit compilers and such...

I think watching and taking in part in such a microcosm during my transition from teenager to young adult led to several revelations about human nature, motivation, and interaction. Being part of two small "band of brothers" type-atmosphere factions that at times were widely disliked for their constant tournament or event winning streaks / exploits accusations really did wonders in helping me to stop giving a sh1t what people thought about how I spend my time.

Ultimately, I got the sense that while not everything may be everyone's cup of tea or natural talent, whether it be making art with photoshop, writing intelligently (I remember my first PRIMORDIA GETS URGENT MISHUN FRUM AGENT GRAY TO SAVE MATRIX rp all too well), competing in some PVP or tournament form, or poking around in hex/source, if one gives it a go, after a while they'll have progressed onward from where they began. Unfortunately, the same sense of progress can't be said for attempting to do the Orangutan dance on stage at FanFaire... We do not speak of this. Time to stop typing.

As a footnote, my vocabulary range, spelling, and punctuation skills have dropped significantly; I was a 16-year-old grammar nazi when I first started playing. Now, after years of peeveepeespeak I find that I mistype words phonetically and only see the fail after I hit Enter. Thanks, Internet!

Hmm hard question... I guess i'll be taking away alot of good memories and experiences. I've met some really awesome people who hopefully I'll continue to talk to out of game and my txt'ing buddies from mxo.. you know who you guys are ^^!! Ive had some good times and some bad times, a few people have stuck by me through the hard times and to those people I will always be grateful for, and Im even grateful for the people who I still  no longer talk to. Without their experience, I'd of been left out of a good at-the-time friendship.

The biggest and most successful troll I'll probably ever do in my life.

Faction Members most of us are gonna be heading over to SWG

I'll take away meeting some of the best and kindest people, the best RP anywhere, and of course the privilege of having been able to serve in PN with Phrack.

I think MxO is what taught me to aim for personal excellence. 

nubious81 wrote:

Faction Members most of us are gonna be heading over to SWG

Lol Morpheus legacy tags in SWG would be the lol.

Kybutra wrote:

keyboard warrior skillz

I ARE KEYBORED WARRIOR!

Michael1 wrote:

PBlade wrote:

cloudwolf wrote:

A learning experience like no other. Internationalism, internet skillz, philosophical encouragement, a sense of community, personal confidence and friends for life.

This. So definitely this.

Goligoth wrote:

Michael1 wrote:

PBlade wrote:

cloudwolf wrote:

A learning experience like no other. Internationalism, internet skillz, philosophical encouragement, a sense of community, personal confidence and friends for life.

This. So definitely this.

 Edit: Alot of photoshop tips and tricks aswell. =P

Community (in the best & broadest sense)

It was small inside Megacity - you could walk it's breadth relatively easy. 'Inside' you had ppl from Austria, Australia, Japan, China, Italy, France, England, Wales, Scotland, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Russia, Canada, USA, The Netherlands.  I know there's a whole lot more but ppl from these places I interacted with regularily at some point. Some I nvr knew exactly where you jacked-in from.

All with the similar goals and some even with similar time zones

The Oracle: [smells freshly-baked cookies] "Mmmm, I love that smell. I sure am going to miss it."

It was an honour gaming with you guys. /salute

Probably the best thing and most helpful, as someone who has gone from my mid to late thirties in this game, is to gain much insight into the next generations culture and philosophy, not to mention the internetz culture surrounding it.

Some of my peers worry about you guys, I sure don't.  We have a lot more in common than say, either of us and the baby boomer generation.  I'm optomistic for the future.

A lot of literary experience, to be completely honest. How to get into the mind of a character, what way is best to place installments. I also learned a lot about the best ways to entertain MMORPG crowds, mostly from being a part of that crowd.

I've made a good several friends as well, but I don't so much feel that needs to be stated here.