Hello everybody,
I don’t know if this is the right time to announce this, though if not now, I don’t know when the right time would be.
I am going to be retiring from Diablo sometime in the not-too-distant future.
What that means is that I’ll be signing off from the D3 forums and the game itself, and I’m not planning on getting involved in any way with D4. Unlike Free, who has been semi-retired for a while now but still puts in an appearance here not infrequently, I will be going full cold-turkey. Once I’m gone, I’m gone. I’ve never been very good at doing anything halfway.
I do want to make sure that everybody knows: this isn’t because anything is wrong. My health, both mental and physical, is good- i’m not dying or something like that. And, it’s not because I don’t enjoy this game anymore, because I certainly do. In fact, that may be part of the issue- I’ve always been very resistant to getting bored, so anything that I have ever enjoyed, I can pretty much keep on doing, forever.
But, I don’t think I ought to keep on playing Diablo, forever. I’ve given a significant amount of my time to this game, both to playing it and to doing related stuff, like helping people on the forum, or putting together Barb Buff Proposal with Free or State of Set with DMKT. I could go on giving my time indefinitely, and never get tired of it, but there are other hobbies I’d like to get back to that have slowly been buried by “D3 time”. So I think it’s time for me to say a fond farewell, and then depart.
This won’t happen right away. I don’t have a definite date set yet, but I will let everybody know when I do. It will probably be sometime in the Spring.
Before I leave, I’ll be wiki-fying all my guides and a few other important threads (like the list of Additive and Multiplicative buffs for Barbs), in case somebody else wants to keep them updated. I don’t really expect that to happen, and it’s fine if it doesn’t- that’s a large responsibility to put on somebody else (and probably pointless- does anybody read my guides anymore, anyway!?) But if somebody wants to do it, it’ll be doable.
In the time that remains, give some thought to whether you have any burning questions that you need me to answer, or if there are any other resources that you’d like for me to try to generate.
Rage