Almost six years ago I made a blog post where I described why I stopped writing in this blog and, moreover, why I had completely lost my passion for the game and its rules.
Has my interest in the game reinvigorated since? Have I once again gained that old passion for the game and its complex rules interactions? Have I once again started to avidly buy and collect new cards? Have I perhaps been secretly participating in MtG discussion forums?
Nope.
Even after over six years, the game is still as dead to me as back then. I literally have no interest. I don't really care about new rules changes and additions, no interest in new cards, sets and mechanics, and pretty much zero interest in tricky rules interactions and questions. And, indeed, I have not purchased as single WotC product since. Nothing.
I still occasionally play the game with a group of friends, using a couple of my decks from almost 10 years ago, but I do that primarily because of the social aspect, not because of the game. In fact, I think the game is a bit on the boring side. I'm not exaggerating that if it wasn't for the social aspect, I wouldn't be playing at all. And, in fact, if this group decided to start playing something else, like some board game, I would be happy to move to it and throw those decks into some closet never to be taken out again. I don't really care about the cards nor the game, I only play it for the socialization aspect. And I never come up with tricky rules questions like before, because I am genuinely not interested.
And WotC isn't receiving a penny from me, and I have completely stopped talking about the game and recommending it to others. In fact, I haven't even checked this blog in something like five years; this is literally the first time in all that time.
And I can genuinely say that this is not out of some kind of stubbornness or principle or some kind of empty "revenge", like I'm suppressing my interest for the game for the sake of pettiness. I can completely genuinely and sincerely say that I literally am not interested in the game, and haven't been interested in it in all this time.
So yes, the administrators of the mtgsalvation forums did successfully and completely kill my passion for the game, for good. Nothing has changed. Not that those psychopaths would care even if they knew, of course.
So this is pretty much a "non-update" update post.
