PSO=Worse than DRUGS

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Ghost in the machine.

There's this vague image I have of some jedi-type master lurking in the shadows who sometimes shows up to lend a hand in a challenge mode run or in a random game.

The veterans all know him.

That's the ghost - the legend. His/her skills are legendary. His/her TA times are ridiculous. He/she has collected every damn item in the game.

Recognition.

Like the engineer in the bowels of the submarine on the Hans Doldinger masterpiece, Das Boot.

The reason some of us keep coming back in version after version and logging hour after hour collecting this rare, chasing down that egg, improving that TA time, taking yet another character to the 200lvl is that we want, some of us anyway, to be that guy.

We want to be recognized as really good at something.

For some, it's the legit Guld-Milla. For others, it's the documented, witnessed capture and unsealing of the legendary j-sword. For others, it's breaking the magic 2, 3, or 4 hour challenge mode time or posting a time that is truly unbelievable unless honorable veterans provide witness to the fact. That drives some.

For still others, it's the shits and giggles of meeting buddies, drinking beers and yucking it up while you slaughter baddies.

It's that next rare drop, that next level, that next egg, that next TA run.....the next thing.

It's meeting others who like to do the same thing you like to do.

There are so many reasons to like this game and that is what keeps bringing so many of us back to the next version - I currently have four versions and many have more than that.

No other game I have played has kept me coming back like this one has. And no matter how much I have accomplished (using that word lightly), there is always something more that I would like to do.

That is the addictive nature of PSO.

Jebus Christ he summed that up well. That's about the only reason i used to play online. Nowadays we sometimes break it out at parties and "yuck it up" with friends.