[2020] I love this game/Letter to the developers

I don't really know how to start this.

I guess from the start, I was first introduced to this game by my cousin a few days after launch. We were planning on sharing the account, but my cousin only played for about 6 hours total. I played on and off for awhile, mostly struggling due to a low framerate, but was slowly leveling. Eventually I got a new computer and tried to play more seriously. I remember two specific events that completely solidified my love of this game.

The first was my first encounter with a world boss. I was about level 45ish, mapping in Bloodtide Coast, when I saw an event pop up. It was something about a Lionguard assault. I was curious, and after a couple minutes of trying to find my way in I figured it out. As I was walking over a hill my framerate tanked, and on the other side I saw 50-60+ players swarming around the area. I was completely blown away that there were this many people working together for a random event, and ended up getting swept up in the zerg to kill Taidha. Was unlike anything I'd experienced in my years of playing WoW before.

The second was ruined Lion's Arch. This was around the same time as the above, give or take a day or two. I had been looking around the map trying to figure out where to go next (Up to this point I had, and continued to, complete maps to 100% as I encountered them) when I realized there were a couple PoIs in LA I had apparently missed. I was pretty confused, I had already gotten map completion there before, so I was kinda thinking "what the f*ck". I waypointed in and tried to orient myself. I was left wandering around going "I don't remember any of this, where the hell am I?". To try and figure it out I decided to go to the central plaza and work from there. After a few more seconds of wandering around however, I realized I already WAS in the central plaza. The fact that the entire city had been blown up completely -ahem- blew me away. I resolved not to miss a single world changing thing again, and have played at least once a week, usually every day, since then.

1500 hours and $200+ later and I still utterly love this game. It has helped me through many trying times and made me a plenty of friends I hop to hold onto for the rest of my life. The last few months have been very hard on me in several ways, but this game has been here to get me out of my own sh*tty life and into a better one for awhile (I think I put at least a thousand hours into it in just the past 6 months). I hope this game survives and thrives for years to come and I hope I'm there to see it.

"Hey, that last sentence was a little odd, why would you say something like that?". Because I've been very sick for a very long time. I can't work, I can't eat, I can't go to school (I was lucky enough to graduate a few weeks before things started taking a down-turn). The doctors have tried almost everything they could to return my quality of life to normal, or at the very least to functional again, except for one thing. Organ transplant. The transplant doctors in Edmonton decided that the best option would be a multi-visceral transplant, meaning small intestine, large intestine, stomach (maybe), liver (maybe), and part of my pancreas (maybe). Odds are not as high as I would like, at around 50%-60% survival. It's a bit stressful, to say the least. The last few months of my life have felt like being in a shopping cart heading down a hill towards an intersection, and I have no idea whether the lights will be green or red when I make it.

Anyways, I just got the call in that they have a donor. They're arranging air ambulance now. There's always the possibility that this is a false alarm and that something will come up and the organ will be end up being ineligible but, well, I won't know until I get there. Surgery is being scheduled for early tomorrow morning. I wanted to write this out now while I had the opportunity because if I don't do it now I might not ever get to.

I hope one of the devs sees this and know how much their work has helped me get through this.

/salute

P.S: Sorry if this is a little rambly or incoherent, I'm a bit flustered/shaky right now and my heart is racing and it's making it a little hard to focus/type.