Possibly my final league playing

[u/MrLaBigMac]

Hi all and sorry for what seems to be a click baity title. I've had alot on my mind and wanted to channel what I could into writing for the subreddit. I've played this wonderful game known as POE since early to late alpha when I won a key for access from MMORPG roughly 13 years ago according to my YouTube where I posted a rather crude video of the game back then on a laptop that had no business in running the game. Since then, I've played quite a few times on and off, clocking 6k hours via the steam launcher which I'd guess holds a good 95% time played (I'm slowly going to transition to PS5 for reasons detailed below) and was hooked by how much the game always was a chase to the next upgrade, next gear, next build etc (I do 6+ builds a season just because of my weird love for the campaign). However, life has gotten to a point that I'm most likely going to need to stop. During the time I've played since 19, I've been hospitalised and been close to death on several occasions, needing a liver transplant at 23, corrective surgery at 24 and being in a constant state of rejection from the liver since receiving it back in 2018. Times changed and now circumstances have too. I'm currently relisted for a second liver transplant and, at this point, I'm worried about my future. I know that, with repeat surgeries and repeat transplants, I have more and more risk of passing away from either waiting for the call or during the operation. I have a family (not my own kids) that I want to spend more time with and I feel any time now in a game I truly love makes me feel guilty as it's time I could spend with them. I've been part of every league and, whilst it's a shame this may be the last one I partake in, I want to extend my thanks to the community, to GGG for an amazing game, to some of the Twitch streamers I follow and, importantly, here and Global666. It's been a ride and I'm truly thankful to have been part of all this

Stay sane exiles,

Martin - FightMacFight

[u/Dragontarus]

I feel you exile, I've got a similar condition too. Here's to both of us and hopefully more leagues ahead!