Valshinshirone Shi

Back in it's day, this game was a work of art, a blessing that touched hearts and created friendships that lasted many years. It wasn't as well known as WoW and was a grindfest to an extent, but it was fair. The music, the atmosphere, the community, the landscape, the story. A game like this probably will never exist again in my lifetime. It was old but incredibly charming. The attacks were flashy, you had strategy in PVP and PVE. This game was relaxing, it was fun, it was beautiful, the stories and quests were worth reading. Leveling was challenging but not impossible. Grinding coins was tough but not impossible. But, the game couldn't last. Like every MMORPG it was killed by greed. Farming became harder and harder, getting better gear became harder and harder. Before, you could farm hardcore for a week and then afford whatever the hell you wanted, fashion? Sure. Crafting materials? New gear? New skills? Easy, even all of them at once if you treated the game like a job. Trying to get the best gear in the game? It'll be super hard and it'll take a year without paying for it to get started and in a really good spot, but you won't have to play like it's a second job unless you wanted to get further into the best gear. You could avoid farming if you invested into materials like herbs and metals and skillbooks at first, and then invested into things like fashion among other things, then you'd just afk in your catshop as people would buy your items. But that all changed as the game became more successful. Many years after its release, lots of things changed. It would take you 8-10 hours a day to farm plants, every day, for 3-5 years, in order to afford to buy HALF of the best gear in the game. That's not the only thing, you'd also need to REFINE the gear after, and add gems. They introduced "cards" which gave massive buffs the more rare they were, and the best way to get them? Spend real money. Last I played the game many years ago, it was estimated by the community that, in order for you to have the "best" character in the game, you'd have to spend around 36,000 USD to have EVERYTHING maxed out, have the best gear, all skills, maxed banking, etc. If this game didn't fall into greed, I would still be playing it. Back in the day I spent $300 CDN on it on my first year playing and maxed out the large majority of my skills, maxed out my bank, enabled trading between all the characters between my account, bought the fastest wings, 2 super expensive mounts, 5 fashion packs among other really nice goodies AND STILL had a fortune left over to start a trading business with players. But as the game got "changed" over and over again, making coins became extremely difficult due to item repairs among other things. Don't even get me started on the auto-farm/auto-kill feature they added, that was the final nail on the coffin for this game. So I ended up quitting. I really hope one day there will be a revamped/remade version of this game, where greed is avoided and the original loyal player base can be revived but with the direction everything has gone involving PWI I don't see that happening. This game didn't go out of style, it was murdered by the very people who made it who then, left it out to rot to make quick cash. And it remains now, a shell of what it was filled with multiple bots auto-farming. I was there in 2007 till 2012. I came back in 2015-2016 to find it in ruins, and then never looked back.