It’s a mix of potential and the player’s passions I’ve seen. Haven seems to grant players quite a lot of creative freedom, when it comes to item customization, character potential, and there’s so much one can envision as potential storylines and plot arcs. And most of the people I have spoken to that still play seem to be quite passionate about Haven, too, and in my experience that shows there is still something worth sticking around for. People who are invested in their stories, their characters, the overhanging atmosphere of Haven (which also feels quite unique).

I don’t play it too actively. Haven’t had the chance to, really. I have been around at first mostly hoping to see people return after hiatuses once that first Wild Hunt took a lot of the playerbase. But they didn’t seem to come back. Then a few weeks ago, we were seeing an upsurge of players hopping on, too, just before I went on a work vacation. Talking seeing around 10-15 people online during the game’s evening hours, which looked promising. I kind of sit around, work on a few things every now and then, and just keep myself available just in case someone is actually around to roleplay during my hours. I’ll be busy on another monitor, or Haven ends up tucked behind a few tabs or applications.

I came here after trying several other MU*s. Some of the Iron Realms ones. Some MU*s that are solely about combat. Some MU*s with worlds of different genres, such as sci-fi. Haven just kind of clicked as a concept. And I’m still hoping I didn’t arrive at the worst time, and will be here when the ship is sinking. Genuinely.

I’d love to actually be able to try leave a bit of a mark on the town. Even if it’s just having made a few shops, or inspiring a single other person to join me in this society I picked, or having helped play along/write a story people could experience. That’s what I was gearing up for, just before the warnings of yet another Wild Hunt hit me, and that motivation kind of faded. At first, I was just tentatively hovering around, preying that March would not be the month my character gets nabbed and that tiny bit of progress I managed to make gets completely reset and taken from me. It seemed fine. So I was just about ready to invest again, come April, and.. well.. Today happened.

I was today years old when I found out the Wild Hunt is probably bugged, grabbing people who were already grabbed the last hunt, or my own character who isn’t established in the slightest, or likely even old enough to get grabbed. I’m genuinely hoping it is indeed a bug of sorts, that this can get fixed quickly. But I don’t know if I’ve the fortitude to wait for ten weeks just to be able to be a tier 2.