It's not something new, it's something I have noticed increasingly over the last few years. People are more and more willing to draw assumptions based on sketchy and non-existent evidence, circulate it in the rumor mill, and take a big dump on other people's fun and hard work. This approach does not sit well with me. Therefore I have decided to move on from these forums and this community.

I've been here for 11 years. Argued with some of you. I know I'm not the most fantastic player, or the most easy to get along with person on these boards, particularly in the last few years but I have played a multitude of characters at hero, invariably going for roleplay and trying to learn at PK, which is something I never found easy in game from day one. Chances are, some of the better players out there have had their PK stats padded out by me in the past.

Thank you to all of you for the good times and bad times. I may continue to play CF after my current character, or I may not. In any event, for the longest time the Dios community felt like a (really messed up) family to me; a brotherhood of people who shared a mutual passion for a very bizarre, niche past-time. These days there is so much pettiness and squabbling the community spirit is just no longer there.

I genuinely wish you all the best of luck with the future with whatever you decide to do and I hope you and your families are prosperous going into the future.

(If anyone wants to stay in touch, send me a PM within the next week and I'll give you my details. After a week I'll be asking the VIPs for a permanent ban.)