by Chaos Spectre Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:11 pmHello. Many of you on this forum know me as the leader of the User Covenant, The Followers of Izalith.
Over the past almost year, I've gotten to know you guys and become friends with many of you. My very first thread on here was about the Egg Head, and the mysteries behind it. While I still firmly believe it has secrets, with the help of the people of this community, we unlocked its multiplayer purpose.
I don't play Dark Souls as much as I used to, but I always make sure to come back here to keep up with my covenant and see whats going on.
In the time after I dropped off Dark Souls, I joined a well known game called League of Legends. While I enjoyed this game, I came to a realization. Any game I enjoy, I want to get involved with the community. I don't know why it took me so long to realize a big reason why I started getting depressed, but I see it now. The LoL community is terrible, utterly terrible, and when I came back to this forum yesterday, I realized something.
You guys are practically an arm of a gaming family to me.
From Tolvo putting in some great jokes and helping the community, to ViralEnsign writing some of the best covenant lore I've ever read, or even WyrmHero managing one of the biggest and most popular covenants on this thread. And of course, I can't forget the ones who run this joint. Fex, Emergence, Befowler, and the many other Mods and Admins I don't know, thank you.
I've never in my whole time of gaming gotten so close with a community. I've talked to multiple game developers, gotten my ideas put into a couple games including a triple A title, and even gained a large amount of real life friends that I never knew before gaming became involved. Games are my life, I want to make them, but more than anything, I want to share them. Communities like LoL and the shooter community only want what they want. They are selfish, there is no sharing, there is no care in the world, its just selfishness. But with the Dark Souls community, there is so much more than just sharing, and I have to thank the game for that.
You guys have made a very large impact on me. I mean, hell, I never touched skype till this recent war got started, and even then, its not a hate war, its a lore war. We are all excited for it, and its enjoyable to know that even though we are attacking each other, its all in fair sportsmanship and we enjoy the idea behind it.
This community, these people, they are important to me, because unlike most other communities, this community it built around the idea that the true enemy is not other players, but the game itself. From its weapons of unexplained lore, intense and strategic combat, a lonely world that never truly is that lonely, and all the small things that make it great in between, I think this game did more than just be good.
Thank you, to everyone here. My covenant, the people who run this forum, Tolvo for being one of the most helpful people on this forum, and everyone else. Thank you for giving me a place I can call my gaming home.
Over the past almost year, I've gotten to know you guys and become friends with many of you. My very first thread on here was about the Egg Head, and the mysteries behind it. While I still firmly believe it has secrets, with the help of the people of this community, we unlocked its multiplayer purpose.
I don't play Dark Souls as much as I used to, but I always make sure to come back here to keep up with my covenant and see whats going on.
In the time after I dropped off Dark Souls, I joined a well known game called League of Legends. While I enjoyed this game, I came to a realization. Any game I enjoy, I want to get involved with the community. I don't know why it took me so long to realize a big reason why I started getting depressed, but I see it now. The LoL community is terrible, utterly terrible, and when I came back to this forum yesterday, I realized something.
You guys are practically an arm of a gaming family to me.
From Tolvo putting in some great jokes and helping the community, to ViralEnsign writing some of the best covenant lore I've ever read, or even WyrmHero managing one of the biggest and most popular covenants on this thread. And of course, I can't forget the ones who run this joint. Fex, Emergence, Befowler, and the many other Mods and Admins I don't know, thank you.
I've never in my whole time of gaming gotten so close with a community. I've talked to multiple game developers, gotten my ideas put into a couple games including a triple A title, and even gained a large amount of real life friends that I never knew before gaming became involved. Games are my life, I want to make them, but more than anything, I want to share them. Communities like LoL and the shooter community only want what they want. They are selfish, there is no sharing, there is no care in the world, its just selfishness. But with the Dark Souls community, there is so much more than just sharing, and I have to thank the game for that.
You guys have made a very large impact on me. I mean, hell, I never touched skype till this recent war got started, and even then, its not a hate war, its a lore war. We are all excited for it, and its enjoyable to know that even though we are attacking each other, its all in fair sportsmanship and we enjoy the idea behind it.
This community, these people, they are important to me, because unlike most other communities, this community it built around the idea that the true enemy is not other players, but the game itself. From its weapons of unexplained lore, intense and strategic combat, a lonely world that never truly is that lonely, and all the small things that make it great in between, I think this game did more than just be good.
Thank you, to everyone here. My covenant, the people who run this forum, Tolvo for being one of the most helpful people on this forum, and everyone else. Thank you for giving me a place I can call my gaming home.
