Interim Report – Sorry to keep you all waiting!

[SpankWustler]

I am a blob of pessimism, filled with Flamin' Hot Cheetos and regret. I shall slough over all, weeping my cynical slime.

Once upon a time, HNM's were something fought over for spawns and controlled by RMTs who used their access to easy power to get a virtual lock on the game and it's economy.

I wish the people who I remember gathering at usually-not-Nidhogg were RMT. People who wanted to make money in real life never would have invested so much time in something so relatively unproductive. I suspect RMT would have left after three days and my shame would have felt all the more acute for I would have been doing something as a hobby that somebody else passed over as a job.

It's been a long time, but you're talking about the guys who piled into Sky, yeah? They were a pain, but it's a huge stretch to say RMT had control over anything other than the huge golem with a funny name who dropped half a Byakko pop-set.

Ask every player that had an Emperor/Empress hairpin if it wasn't. Gear was treasured because it was rare, potent and useful- and because it was more powerful than average, it was useful longer.

Equipping in the olden dayes isn't as positive as a lot of people like to remember.

Some equipment was so sough after in those days because all other options were bad, spectacularly bad to the point of adding only defense. Other times, items were just assumed to have quality equal to their rarity because few people fully understood what various bonuses actually did.

Edit: To tie my points together with this off-topic topic as a whole, it's great to have a feeling of drama or nostalgia, but those things are just feelings. They're not concrete and not everyone is going to share them.