i'm sure everyone was once addicted to this game, and so i was too, not shamed to admit it, i remember so many first times, first set of iron armors, first time being killed (by a lv 20 bear i think), first time exploring a dungeon, first time being scammed (the usual "i'm jagex staff thing then the guy in the end kept on hacking me for 20 times before stopping) my first 10k, my first 100k, my first 1m, my first barrow item drop, my first gwd, first time reaching lv 100, first friend on the list (music doctor, probably quit around after a few weeks after i knew him) my best friend (zero9930, i still miss u justin=]) first time member, oh god i can keep this list going and going forever, it brings back so many memories, now that all my friends are gone, i feel really upset when i think about it, all those good friends from lvl 3, who met on tutorial island, who met first time when u were mining, or fishing for shrimps, it's really depressing, i used to play until midnight, or sometimes all day, and hang out with my friends, i wasn't very powerful, i was really poor who would go to varrock sewers to pick up coins from the floor (ya, i did that) but it was still fun nevertheless, i felt so alive playing that game, now i'm pretty high leveled, i'm reasonablly rich i just don't feel that joy of playing runescape anymore :( so i quit, and came back occasionally to check things out and looks at the place where i've been, i sometimes visit the places where i met my old friends but find them deserted now that RS players have dropped so much, it pains me to watch that same empty place, it was as if he was there a second ago, well that's my story, i just want to know if anybody is feeling the same way, if not, what keeps u going in this game? what's the thing that drives u forward and continue playing this game?