To start off, I’m currently a level 51 cleric on windia, named NephiIim. It’s really depressing playing maplestory, but I just can’t stop. From the early levels of kerning PQ, I met a friend named PirateLassD, who was really cool and really cute. We would PQ together all the time, and just chat on MS, like we were childhood friends. She was really nice, and it always made me feel good if I made her laugh. She had two other really good friends, OpalTage and ChiliSpill, on MS. The four of us would hang out together, and the two of us together would be stalked by xxlicoolxx, who was an immature kid, but fun to make fun of. We leveled up, and grew more distant over time. After we both reached level 30, I shot up in levels, thanks to my friend in real life who trains for me. Soon, I was over ten levels above her.
We still chatted in buddy, and I dropped by time by time to see her in Victoria, when I wasn’t training, far off in Ludibrium. It pains me to see us grow more distant over time. Finally, one day, she just doesn’t show up on maplestory anymore. I ask Opal, “where’s Lass?” He says he doesn’t know. She never logged on again, and Opaltage and Chilispill have been becoming increasingly distant. We don’t even talk anymore, except for the occassional “What level are you now?” here and there.
Another friend, TeyTey, who’ve I met training in the Ant Tunnels in the early levels of being a cleric. In fact, he was the only person who kept me going, training on horny and undead mushrooms, while leveling up my heal. We always trained together, hours at a time, chatting so we don’t get bored, and driving away KSers together. Of course, after level 40, we went our own way. He leveled up much faster than I did, and we grew more distant ever since. A few weeks ago, he just stopped coming on MapleStory too..
It really pains me how you can make great friends on online games like these, and lose them in a matter of days… It makes you realize that we do indeed live in a big and lonely world. I read blogs like these, saddening me, and then read blogs about trivial things in maplestory, like killing a mushmom for a first time.., and that saddens me as well. Sorry if my writing isn’t that good, as I failed freshman composition. =/
I know how you feel about losing friends. I had been playing it forever, since Scania opened. When Broa came out, we all moved to Broa and had fun, leveling and such. I told all my friends, I was making a new account and gave them my character names because I wanted to make test builds for hybrid characters. After a while, I told them I was heading out for a week and I would be back. They all came to say bye to me, Yeah, all 14 of my friends. We all smiled and had fun. We all were like childhood friends in it. When I came back, since we all knew eachother, I asked one of my friends, “So where is the rest of the gang, ” She told me that due to the KSing, newbs and lack of fun in the game, they all left. Now, my band of 14 friends, dropped to 2 people aside from me. Two weeks later, one of those two people had left. I am left with one friend whom has been there since the start, Amad3us. He’s over 30 level higher than me now, when he used to be 10-20 levels below me. But I know how it is to lose people you find and come close to.
Yah, you are the same as me. I lost all my lvl 30- friends. They all seemed to get on less and less. At lvl 25, I had around 8 PQ friends. By lvl 30, I was down to 3 who actually logged on. At lvl 35 they all left; however, I keep making new friends.
The good thing is, yes, we will always make new ones.
Yes, that is true, but the people who you can look back at and remember that your first PQ was with them, you can smile and call them a real friend. I just hope that I can find friends like that, that can put up with me and being in the military and being gone for extended periods of time.
I think I have an idea why they might have stop playing. They might not have done that, one possibility is they deleted you from their buddy list in need of extra slots.
*pats everyone who needs a pat on the back* it’s ok, there are alot of nice people in the world, we just have to move on and meet new people, they might not necessarily be “better” people, but at least, you’re strong enough to stand bac up and stop that loneliness of yours from dominating you! >:D