Farewell after 14 years!

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Farewell after 14 years!

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Post by VooDoo_BoSs »

Hey friends

After 14 long years, I have decided to formally put this game behind me. Getting married in the next couple of months and I'm at a point in my life and career where I feel I can no longer responsibly play aoe3 (I tend to get too hooked and will binge 10-20 games a week) that I must finally put it behind me. This game has been an enormous source of fun for most of my life and I wanted to take a moment to thank the community and reflect on some highlights.

2005-2008
Golden time of AOE, but ultimately a massive noob. Spent a lot of time doing lame Jannisary rushes. Game was incredibly imbalanced as ESO pushed out TWC / TAD before balancing AOE3, and we saw fun strats such as:
- German merc FF / war wagon spam
- Abus were even more OP than now
- Iro Great House FI
- Dutch Stadhouter FI
- Sioux
- China Hand Mortar FF

Honourable mentions go to:
- Entire LoSt / SkWzZ Clans (for different reasons)
- TsC Clan
- iamgrunt / glouk / ourk / starsky, and a few of the other old pros.
- RTS-Sanctuary admins / community
- Total of 4000 posts and ~200 recs posted on rts-sanctuary

2009-2012
Probably my best period. Spent a lot of time gaming here instead of studying for High school exams (fortunately I still did OK, though I wouldn't recommend it). At my peak I was top 10 1v1 ELO in the world and hit my highest PR of ~38 with primarily French / Port / British. I also developed a strong proficiency in Otto, wrote some guides, and was generally the #1 ranked Otto player in 1v1 for a period of about 2 years. Wrote a couple otto guides which are actually still pretty useful today, and I suspect most folks can get to PR ~33-35 using those principles.

Honourable mentions go to:
- pk clan for being a strong presence in the community
- Goodspeed for ushering in the next few metas
- H20 for staying with the game as many of the old pros started to fall off.
- Best win: H20 for resigning at 10 seconds in a 1v1 India (me) vs Brit (him) on Yukon. Technically a win, so I will take it.

2013-present
Played on-and-off here, mostly 3v3 randoms. A lot of fun times. 2013-15 were pretty boring / dark, but the game has been reenergised in the past few years by ESO-community.net. Played on / off continually here where I would build my PR up to 32-33 over the course of 1-2 months, then quit playing for 6-7 months. Did this over and over, and proud to say that Imaintained a pretty good 1v1 win streak laming ottos. I look at this period most fondly - particularly the last couple of years due to:

Honourable mentions go to:
- The 3v3 random community. Have had some epic games and - without caring about PR or ratings or teams - have had some of my fondest memories. Coming back after losing your base at the 50 minute mark because your french team mate finally makes it to imperial is a great feeling that few other AOE experiences can match.
- Again - entire ESO-community for the amazing tournaments, streaming, etc. Never played with folks like interjection but always enjoyed watching those matches
- SirMusket for making me feel a rage and passion that I hadn't in many years
- All the eso-community folks who also helped me rage at SirMusket (Special shoutout to breezy, gryphoon, etc. - you know who you are).

Just wanted to reitarate my thanks to everybody. This has been a great community and I will genuinely think of you all and this game fondly for many years to come. Maybe I will one day come back for AOE4 / AOE3 DE for a sneaky 3v3 random, but very unlikely given the trajectory my life is going.

Wish you all the best with all your endeavours!
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Re: Farewell after 14 years!

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see you mate, gl with the rest of your life my man
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Hazza54321 wrote:see you mate, gl with the rest of your life my man
Thanks, buddy! Enjoyed the few games we played together, you are a good and chill guy.

All the best.
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official statements like these never work, true quitters don't even care enough to formulate a proper farewell

see you in one or two months
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Cya soon @VooDoo_BoSs

Cheers for being a voice of reason in threads
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jesus3 wrote:official statements like these never work, true quitters don't even care enough to formulate a proper farewell

see you in one or two months
Paypal bet? :)

I've had gaps in the past of 6-12 months, and those were without having an "official statement"
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we will c you later, (I hope) @VooDoo_BoSs have fun, meanwhile. Wish you a splendid wedding, and lots of good times ;) :love:
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Good luck!
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hop in on ESOC from time to time to say hi. Good luck :)
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Good luck with your careeer and marriage!
I wish you all the best, but please dont forget to say hi on here sometimes.
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Take care mate, wishing best for you!

PS ; Please comeback and piss Sir_Musket from time to time otherwise he will miss you haha ^^
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Oh thank god, thought this was a @Mitoe farewell when I saw the title!

In all seriousness, good luck with your life. I have been playing off an on since 2005 and life makes it hard to play routinely.
Either way I am sure you will be playing again at some point, it's hard to give it up entirely.
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fuking nerds especiqlly hazza
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cya buddy
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See you in January. :lol:



Wishing you the best, though. :love:
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This sounds more like a humble brag, with the marriage and all :P
Anyway, gl hf, I enjoyed your Otto guides back in the day. Never forget Ottoman Winter Guide! :flowers:
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VooDoo_BoSs wrote:(I tend to get too hooked and will binge 10-20 games a week)
You consider that a binge :D
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fuck now i feel sorry.. sorry @Hazza54321 ly dude
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Good luck with your marriage and career. It's always sad to see old names leave the community, but I understand and respect your decision -- as sad as it can be, sometimes we have to let go of things we love so that we can begin the next chapter of life.

I hope you have a life full of love, laughter, and adventure. Godspeed, @VooDoo_BoSs
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Come on, it’s not actually good bye. Not like when you get married you’re immediately banned from playing video games.
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Was a pleasure playing with you throughout the years @VooDoo_BoSs . All the best
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thoughts and prayers
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Re: Farewell after 14 years!

Post by VooDoo_BoSs »

Thanks everybody for your kind words!

@deleted_user5 - I will always remember flaming sir musket fondly.

@dicktator_ - Yes! Unfortunately my work and training takes up a lot time these days, so if I play more than 1-2 games a week, then by definition I am sacrificing either sleep, time with my partner, time training, or generally more productive activities (eg: reading). If I play 10 games a week, then it has been a very BAD week for me and I have likely sacrificed a lot of the above.

@Zutazuta - that's true, but as above it's more due to me needing to prioritise more productive activities and I'm not able to play in moderation. If I log on to play one game, I end up playing 5, and all the other things I could have done that day don't get done :(

@gryphoon94 - cheers mate!

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