elsword-nostalgia

[elsword-nostalgia]

A little bit about this blog in case anyone sees this:

This is a sideblog for stuff related to the 2007 Korean MMORPG Elsword, especially anything I can find that strikes a sense of nostalgia for me.

Mod is an adult and uses she/they pronouns. Entirely free player, and recently started maining Lu/Ciel though I haven't had a lot of time with them yet. (Also I know this is kind of contradictory to canon but I like to headcanon Ciel as a butch ace lesbian, because I am and it makes me happy. <3)

Tag List (subject to change as I get used to this blog):

#elsword gameplay - Any pictures, videos, or text posts of or about playing the game itself.

#elsword lore - Posts about character backstories or the main plot.

#mod's fan stuff - Fanart, fics, edits, headcanons, etc. by yours truly.

#fan stuff - Fanart, fics, edits, headcanons, etc. by other people.

#elsword memes - Memes, jokes, and other posts meant to be funny.

#incorrect quotes - Text posts with quotes that the characters didn't say but probably would. These tickle my brain idk lol.

#kog corporate greed - Content referring to KOG's treatment of both workers and players, contributing to the game's decline over the past several years.

#eltype archive - For when I finally get around to doing this.

#not elsword - Not sure if or when I'll use this tag, but for anything that isn't directly related to Elsword.

If a post mentions any characters or regions, I will tag those too.

Long rambly backstory below the cut:

I started playing when I was 12 in like 2017 (I know you're supposed to be 13 but I lied about my age, as all 12 year olds with unrestricted internet access do). Obviously, this was ten years after the game was made and it was already kind of past its prime, and I think this is around the point at which older players started to leave. Still, since this is when I started, this is the time period associated with nostalgia for me. I mained Rena and spent a lot of time on Elsword Amino and Deviantart, sharing bad fanart. I was practically obsessed with the game, to the point of reading ElWiki constantly for fun, until I was maybe around 15 and became too busy with life circumstances.

I returned a bit recently and found it mostly abandoned, at least in NA, even in areas that used to hold tons of players. Trying to find and reread ElType issues has also been a challenge, as most of the links on ElWiki lead to broken Imgur pages.

Though "pay to win" and greedy corporate practices were already there when I started, I've found all sorts of posts by older Elsword players that show that it's gotten even worse, likely contributing to the game's decline.

Even though the game is far from what I knew it as and even farther from what older players knew it as, I still feel nostalgia for the characters and story, so I'm trying to gather as much as I can in one place before the game inevitably shuts down. I hope it gets taken from KOG by a studio that will care for the game and listen to the players, but I doubt that's going to happen. I'm busy with university and other circumstances, but sometime soon I want to get ahold of as much of ElType as I can and create a digital archive of it since so many of the links on ElWiki don't work anymore.