Here's some memories I spent throughout the past year with this one game called Elsword, whom I've been familiar with since 2018, and that I used to play for the past 4 years, between 2020 and 2024.
2023
January 2023
January 2nd, 2023
Me playing golf
Me laughing at a sleeping Phoru
Me playing with water next to a bed
Me and a bunny maid Ara
Me (ShadowRunal).
January 6th, 2023
Me, Add in an IB and Rose
ShadowRunal in front of the large flower
May 2023
May 3rd-4th, 2023
ShadowRunal in that MLG hedgehog costume
ShadowRunal pre-Knight Emperor
ShadowRunal pre-Knight Emperor
ShadowRunal post-Knight Emperor
ShadowRunal post-Knight Emperor
ShadowRunal post-Knight Emperor
July 2023
July 5th, 2023 (pre-maintenance) (Elsword NA had to go on maintenance that afternoon)
ShadowRunal sitting on a mushroom chair
Knight and Maid Part 1
Knight and Maid Part 2
Staring at the fireplace
July 15th, 2023 (10 days after the said maintenance)
Yearbook photo (had to resize it to 500x500 with multiple software (including the in-built Windows photos app as well as FireAlpaca) for hours out of frustration, due to Elsword NA's 2023 yearbook contest strictly enforcing their 500x500 aspect ratio)
Me and my homie Keiriphina
Standing in front of the piano
Me and my homie Keiriphina sitting in a tree
Knight Emperor
July 22nd-29th, 2023
Good game
Sleeping in front of the fireplace
October 2023
October 17th, 2023 (2 days after Elsword Fables' 4th anniversary and the last day of the 2023 Harmony Festival)
Me, Elesis and Lu
Me, and the people at the Harmony Festival
Looking at the campfire with Noah
Playing with fireworks
Playing the piano for the last time
Sleeping next to the fireplace
Sleeping next to the fireplace
Conclusion
3 months after the October screenshots were taken, I came back playing Elsword on January 3rd, 2024, after the maintenance that day, this time as a Lithia character named InnerLithium (after the fact that she's named after a lithium compound). The next day, my computer ran into problems with the game and its memory that it took 3 days to recover.
A month later, I tried running the game on my computer again, but turns out, it was an memory issue that led to the 64-bit client (which I switched to back in late 2022) believing that it was a 32-bit one even though prior to this, I had no problem running the game on my computer, both in its 32-bit (which I downloaded in 2020 and later uninstalled in 2 years upon hearing that the game was transitioning over to an 64-bit client) and 64-bit client at all, which caused my computer screen to become black and I had to use the Task Manager to bring up the explorer.exe file, as well as restarting my computer to restore everything back to normal. Ever since, the internet issues made it impossible for me to play the game, but fortunately I can take screenshots of their website, and since I'm currently using my cellular data to write and post this as well.
Anyways, to conclude this entire story and for clear background, it's no secret that I've been familiar with Elsword for 6 years, since September 2018, when I was still in elementary school at the time, a day prior to Yunoki's VTuber debut and around that time, their recent characters Laby, Noah and Lithia didn't exist until later on. 2 years go by, and I first started this game 4 years ago on April 2020, when I was 12 at the time, and so far, throughout these past 4 years, I met a lot of wholesome people, appreciated all of the good and bad times throughout the game's history, drew fanart for the game, and even wrote multiple fanfictions, not to mention it even helped my channel grow and I even won some of the events their staff held, despite going through elementary, middle and high school.
The one thing besides this game, that changed my life forever, was the way I communicated and became friends with others, both online and offline, as well as my education. Speaking of which, I managed to improve my math skills so I can use them for my dream job as a game developer and an artist in the future, but please rest assured that I'll continue to observe everything related to the game.
Anyways, thank you for everything, Elsword. We hope to see you again someday.
UPDATE (as of May 28th, 2024):
I've successfully uninstalled Elsword from my computer for the second time, after 4 years. It was fun while it lasted, but I'll still continue to draw fanart and enjoy the game while watching others play the game and my past gameplay so far, as much as I can. We hope to see you once again someday.
When I was 15 back in January 2023, while I was playing Elsword, I had fun visiting several houses and said "nice house" in the chat and went back to Elysion, where I went to see and spoke to an NPC, where I went to check if there are wedding halls, and found nothing but one wedding hall, but this time it was unlocked, which meant that anyone could enter their wedding, including I in this story, and that's because the couple forgot to lock the ceremony.
As I entered the wedding hall, I was the only guest that showed up, and I saw the couple talking about their inventory and guild sort of thing, before the ceremony started, and after a few minutes, the ceremony ended, with the server announcement congratulating the newlywed couple and we all received our wedding cakes and glad everything turned out well for us in the end, as I also congratulated them in getting married in the game. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to film a video of their wedding, but fortunately, I remember this story, as it was one of the good memories that I had with over the past 4 years, and I will never forget about this day, even for several years to come.
