magickmaker
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come to an end eventually...
I joined the forums back in the days of UTC and 2004, and have been a member here in good standing ever since. Founder of "Mad Monk Models" and route construction, I came and went as I saw fit. Every so often I would take a break from Trainz, coming back. However now as I approach 2012, I find myself at a junction.
After much consideration and thought on the subject, and looking at all my options both monetary and otherwise, I've come to a decision.
Starting Monday, Nov, 14, 2011, I'm giving up. You may call it retiring, but for me it's just giving up. I've fought with trainz for some time, the hobby being something of a love/hate relationship for me. On one hand I loved the trains, but on the other I hated that I never could finish anything. Beset by all manner of problems, from simply finding the right object, to complaints from users about what objects I did use, the fact was that it slowly wore at me to the point that I find now I no longer care. Trainz was fun (key word being was) but in the past few years that fun has been sucked out of it.
It was sucked dry by those who coined the term "gimme pig" and found the "face palm" photos to be the perfect answer when a new user asked about something. I remembered a time when players could ask a question and get an answer, when a user's post about a future locomotive they were working on was met with enthusiam. Not "Oh no not again..." or snide comments about it being beyond their reach. When routes didn't have to be perfect to be playable, and challenges could be held and issued without people making comments that the user was just trying to get someone to "make them a railroad" and should "do it themselves."
Where has that innocence gone, that kindness? I don't know, but now I find myself going down that route. I have become jaded, snide, and tired. I expect results, and look down on those who can't finish. I don't offer help, though I once would have, and now I find that whatever disease the forum members have, whatever apathy that has led us to this point, is now deep within me as well.
Due to this, I have made up my mind. As of today, I am leaving Trainz for good. Yesterday, I fully uninstalled and archived my trainz folder, then deleted anything that remained. The game is gone for me, and it's highly unlikely that I will return. I'm tired. Tired of the bickering, tired of the jerks, and most of all, tired of those more "established" members who are full of themselves. There was a time when we each worked together, when we encouraged our new members. Maybe, should that time ever return, I'll come back.
I don't see that happening.
Magickmaker.
I joined the forums back in the days of UTC and 2004, and have been a member here in good standing ever since. Founder of "Mad Monk Models" and route construction, I came and went as I saw fit. Every so often I would take a break from Trainz, coming back. However now as I approach 2012, I find myself at a junction.
After much consideration and thought on the subject, and looking at all my options both monetary and otherwise, I've come to a decision.
Starting Monday, Nov, 14, 2011, I'm giving up. You may call it retiring, but for me it's just giving up. I've fought with trainz for some time, the hobby being something of a love/hate relationship for me. On one hand I loved the trains, but on the other I hated that I never could finish anything. Beset by all manner of problems, from simply finding the right object, to complaints from users about what objects I did use, the fact was that it slowly wore at me to the point that I find now I no longer care. Trainz was fun (key word being was) but in the past few years that fun has been sucked out of it.
It was sucked dry by those who coined the term "gimme pig" and found the "face palm" photos to be the perfect answer when a new user asked about something. I remembered a time when players could ask a question and get an answer, when a user's post about a future locomotive they were working on was met with enthusiam. Not "Oh no not again..." or snide comments about it being beyond their reach. When routes didn't have to be perfect to be playable, and challenges could be held and issued without people making comments that the user was just trying to get someone to "make them a railroad" and should "do it themselves."
Where has that innocence gone, that kindness? I don't know, but now I find myself going down that route. I have become jaded, snide, and tired. I expect results, and look down on those who can't finish. I don't offer help, though I once would have, and now I find that whatever disease the forum members have, whatever apathy that has led us to this point, is now deep within me as well.
Due to this, I have made up my mind. As of today, I am leaving Trainz for good. Yesterday, I fully uninstalled and archived my trainz folder, then deleted anything that remained. The game is gone for me, and it's highly unlikely that I will return. I'm tired. Tired of the bickering, tired of the jerks, and most of all, tired of those more "established" members who are full of themselves. There was a time when we each worked together, when we encouraged our new members. Maybe, should that time ever return, I'll come back.
I don't see that happening.
Magickmaker.