Originally Posted by
sionide
I am certain, countless numbers of those who have left the game did so not because of server instability, not because of exploding horses, not because of limited pve content, but because they were tired of fighting, day in, and day out, for no purpose, with no hopes of ever actually achieving goals beyond destroying everything their enemy had. Many PvPers will probably never actually own up to that, because it would be too 'carebear-ish' or seen as an excuse. Instead, they point the finger at SV, at bugs, at exploits, at anywhere but the fact that they're just sick of fighting for the sake of fighting.
And here's what's left. Hardcore pvpers, who struggle against all odds to find enjoyment in the last game the casino offers admist the bugs, the lack of diversity in combat, the inability to win a fight thats supposed to be based on player skill, when player skill hardly factors in at all, let alone against lag, complex combat systems that don't work properly if at all, and unbalanced skills or abilities and cookie cutter spec'd characters that are more of a rock-paper-scissors or a guilds numerical battle match than combat based on skill. They fight because its what they know, its what they enjoy, but most of all, because its all they have to do. And so they fight, and fight and fight, until people end the war in the only way they can, by leaving the game.