Something, something, something.....dark side. Something, something, something.....com-plete. 

Numbers are as thin as we've seen them. Many FSE members have had WoW subscriptions for 3 years or more, and burn-out has hit hard right smack dab in the middle of a summertime that includes the opening of a new online game (Age of Conan). The redundency of World of Warcraft (I think I spelled that right) is suddenly noticable for the players of our progression level. 

Some folks are dabbling in older games such as Star Wars galaxies to get their online gaming fix. Some are playing console games in their free time. Some are dying from heat stroke. 

I've been getting burned out a little myself, but my video game of choice is still WoW unless a good preacher coaxes me into trying out Age of Conan. That game looks sort of good and bad at the same time. The graphic scheme is more adult-like however, and that appeals to me.

I honestly can't tell you who or when players are coming back to populate the guild with activity again. There are no potential recruits for us that I can find, as there are 25 man raiding guilds with very low standards sucking up people like a nerd-cuum cleaner with the promise of more content. Offer a more adult atmosphere and they simply flash their dragonball-Z T shirts and type &quot;rofl ftw&quot;. 

I'm not going to give up on FSE yet, heck I don't like the atmosphere of those 25 man raiding guilds enough for them to lure me in. I've been looking for a group of players to either join us or for us to join with. The search is not an easy one. 

A couple guilds like Liberation and Equinoxx have moderately low standards for joining, but Equinoxx is ran by a few Reverie players who claim to not be elitist but are unmistakably so. Liberation's ventrilo makes me grit my teeth too. Slaveluna and Synthesis do a lot of talking in there, and many remember how annoying they were when they were in FSE. :)

So yeah, lots of empty chairs at the guild table, but I'm still going to go get seconds.