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Speaking of our second-in-command, darkone.
The following is a mass alliance message that was sent by darkone this afternoon, and I have gotten the permission to quote it from him.

 Basically I am tired of the game for a number of reasons.
Primarilly it comes down to the dirrection of the game, with the negative food exploit and the continual derailment of any plan to fix this, due to the interests of the meta gamers here, it is clear that illyriad will never develop into what it holds the promise of being.

Combined with that; the cowardly, pathetic and infantile behaiviour of not just the largest alliance in this game, but others also, I have no intention of wasting any more of my time or money into illyriad.  I mean I love paying Call of Cthulu, but would not play it with primary school children.

I have a real life that is rewarding in itself, as such this game is merely a time-waster and is now one that I do not deem worth while.

Boro and AZ have already given up, infact Boro gave up about 1 month ago, I beleive tigre has given up and I myself cant be bothered.  I expect illyriad will become increadibly boring from here on, unless of course the devs finally decide to go aginst the strongest 'market force' and do something that risks upsetting the meta gamers here.

I expect the only way that I would realy come back to the game is if the devs launched a new server, although I expect it would merely get dominated by more immature loosers who want to placate their wasted lives by dominating an online game again,  one day perhaps someone will have the sense to make one of these games that is for adults only, perhaps that would be able to develop into a decent game.

For those that do remain I hope that things do change.  As if not this battle merely proves that anyone who grows to a strength that H feels threatened by (not a difficult task and one we acheived in a matter of a few months), who does not brown nose H and play the game as H dictate, will then be crush by H and those with their noses where they should not be.

I would say have fun, but doubt you really will in the long term,

Dark.

As you can see, he's pretty disappointed with not just the current situation, but the game as a whole.
I might not share his pessimism regarding the future of the game, but I can understand his frustration.

Sadly, this is not the only case of "burn-out", if what he says there is accurate.
I have seen burnout in quite a few other games I used to play, and yes, it is a legitimate concern - invest too much, too soon, too often, and when a seemingly insurmountable problem comes around, that's the straw that breaks the camel's back.
I personally have learned to pace myself after making the same mistake a few times (I'm no spring chicken anymore, if you catch my drift), but whoever masters pacing is far less likely to even WANT to be in a position of power.

Also, apparently, Azreil has been gone for LONGER than that:

 I’m afraid dark is right. I have been sitting Azreil and he hasn’t logged in for almost 6 days. What you see was my last login as a sitter. I didn’t want to mislead you and I stopped doing it because I realized that all of you will think that Azreil is here. On the other hand I was hopping that he will come back, but unfortunately it won’t happen for various reasons, where the more important is his personal life.
I guess now YOU have to decide which way to go. I said you because I’m planning to quit as well. My reason is similar as dark’s and I need to go back to my real life.

When I started this game was fun, but the fun is no more.

All the best to ALL of you.

Vlachko

So, it might be indeed that the coalition will end up getting what they wanted (or probably more) without actually having to bother even presenting some of the terms.

Edited by CristinaZah - 01 Oct 2011 at 15:59