More than three years ago, I joined this site. Even earlier, during summer vacation, bored to death, I had stumbled across the League of Legends website. 2345 posts, 1503 hours (according to wasted-on-lol.com) and 2346 sad jokes later, it's probably safe to say that this little bit of boredom changed my teenage days forever. Who knows what kind of other hobbies I could've had, what other people I could've met or what useful things I could've done (I can dream, Harold).

During the first year, I mostly spent time playing League. Later, I would actually spend more time on here than in game and nowadays I practically don't even care about tactics or theories anymore. I don't have any figures but I'm pretty sure at least 1000 of my comments were made in Off Topic, if not way more and the last time I was genuinely interested in theory crafting was when they were remaking Taric. Which is incidentally also the champion that made me make an account in the first place.

I'm torn apart between going full nostalgia mode and keeping this short, so if you're feeling I'm missing the good parts, that's probably because I'm trying to keep this a blog rather than a book.

I haven't been around for ages, certainly not as a forum regular, but long enough to see people come and go (though hardly both with the same person) and at some points it felt like I would go on visiting this site forever. There used to be so much stupid discussions in Off Topic, I absolutely loved it. I also loved reading guides, especially those very long ones we don't see often anymore today. Does anyone remember that insane Karma guide? That was three years ago!

I actually tried writing some guides myself too. Never got to finish anything though, other more skilled people released a guide with similar views or I simply stopped caring. Let it be known that I wrote a jungle Taric guide before it was cool.

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Just so you know, this list is in total random order created by my mind, which - of course - doesn't make it random at all, but the purpose of this chapter is not discussing this statement(although I believe it would be very interesting).

(That was a joke.)


Yeah, that happened.

Skipping ahead to inhouses, where I had the most fun in LoL I've ever had. Really, you guys rock. Laning with Luther is something I'll never forget, getting spared by Wayne at top lane I want to forget and playing with Amelyne I actually forgot even though it apparently happened (I'm sorry friend, that's how poets are). Khazem's Riven advise was wonderful and GMD's Zed intimidating. Fox will always be a BT Miss Fortune main in my memories and MissMaw and Hopper those pesky Morgana/ Thresh players. Levas (without the K) is actually really sweet even though people tend to doubt that (you can't hide it from me you softie) and Falseo is the funniest ******* (<3) I've ever met (just ban Swain, Malzahar, Diana and Yorick and it's fine). Pengu and Joxuu made hilarious things happen and Vapora made the most horrible things happen. :^)

Does anyone know why the hell I started playing Blitzcrank? I honestly have no clue. No regrets in that department though.

I probably forgot people in the spur of the moment (Oh, we would've almost been out of pancakes) and that's fine because I really need to wrap this up (sorry, my memory consists basically of things popping up from time to time, and I don't have time to wait for everyone to pop at once).

While I'm busy shouting I might as well call out to the Off Topic regulars and the Manga/Anime thread people for being awesome. Searz, Banana, Toshabi, Lifebaka, people whose names I forgot, thanks for all the stimuli!

I was planning to make a more polished and complete version of this someday, maybe at the end of my fourth year here or whatever, so it's kind of sad that it turned out to be this mess. Still said at least something though.

What I'm trying to say is, I'm moving on. Watching this community slowly slip out of my sight (interesting expression, isn't it) has been one of the saddest online experiences of my life but even for me there's a point where cheap jokes are better spent elsewhere. I hate to mention it because it makes it seem like it's the main cause, but the whole monetize thing of late made me realize that I really don't want to be part of this site anymore (the last drop, if you will). I feel like I'm just dragging on and I don't want to waste my time like this any longer. I made this post because it really annoys me when people fade without notice so I didn't want to do it myself this time.

So, thanks for all the laughs, MOBAFire! I'll be leaving for a while, maybe forever, though I doubt it. Let's have a chat sometime, I'll be around on League and I'll probably be joining inhouses from time to time too. Entering mobafire.com in the address bar just won't be my routine anymore.

Words cannot express. I feel a bit empty but I can also feel that fresh breeze of spring I haven't felt in ages. Enough drama for now though ^^

By the way Wayne, this might actually be the most humorless post I've ever made, you better enjoy while you can ;-)

Also, feel free to AMA because all the cool kids did it and you might just not be able to for a while.
TLDR: I'm off to get bored again.

So long and thanks,
Steef

EDIT: I actually got logged out while writing this lel
EDIT2: Saving sends me to a fragged page, publishing sends me to a fragged page but it seems like it's out there now. Have fun devs :^)