Would starting from scratch affect your decision to continue to play?

Losing my characters would bother me less than you might imagine. I could just reroll my favorites, and the rest exist more as characters in my imagination than as datasets on the game servers anyhow. I'd miss the vet rewards, especially at the low levels. What's really precious to me is my knowledge of the game: the mechanics, the geography, the missions, etc. These days I just can't spare the many hours I spent 8 years ago learning my way around. That's one reason I'm reluctant to start a new game. I can handle being poor and having a low level character. I'm not sure I can handle being so ignorant, especially in a game where the other players may be less helpful than they are here.

I would jump right back on it. Rerolling a full Virtue server of characters would be a small, small price to pay.

Yeah I probably wouldn't start from scratch. Couldn't get the Anniversary badges, would have to re-grind thousand of badges, all my IOs...no thanks.

YES!
As long as I can still play the game...

Aniversary badges would be my only issue, I'm rather proud of having those.

But yea, it would not stop me at all.

Starting from scratch would be a huge blow to me. I would probably continue to play the game as long as it existed in any form, but I suspect I would never again devote as much time or feel as much enthusiasm for playing as I do now if I had to scrap all the characters I put so much effort into and start anew.

But at this point, I'll take what I can get.

If it means that the game is still around then yes I wouldn't mind at all from starting from scratch

I play one character almost exclusively. I've poured countless hours, countless badge grinds, and countless billions into him. I spent upwards of 6 billion on prestige to outfit my solo SG.

And yet I'd reroll that character in a heartbeat. In fact starting from scratch knowing everyone else is in the same boat would be a breath of fresh air. It would bring me back to my early days.

Short answer: no.
Longer answer: nope.

Given the choice between losing everything and starting over, and losing everything and not starting over, I will pick the one that involves starting over.

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Yes, it would affect my decision. I'd likely still end up playing, but not with the same gusto.

By coincidence, I just experienced something like this. My Ultima Online account had been expired for several months, due to credit card change. (They could not auto-bill.) This morning I received email inviting me back, with free logins for the month of September. So I updated the advanced client and logged in. And ... everything was gone. In UO you can have a house where you can store loot, soul crystals, etc. I had like a 13-year old account, and lots of stuff stored. Logging on and seeing it all gone was a sad loss, even though I hadn't actually played in many months. I probably won't be back to UO.

I've only played for a year and only gotten one character to 50. But I have 89 characters total. I could (and would) cheerfully start over. I love making characters. At the very least, I'd be starting over with the knowledge of what mistakes to avoid.

I wouldn't mind starting over as long as all my purchased items and boosters were available such as costume packs.

This would be interesting, remaking my first toon? Doing Hollows and frostfire again? Wouldn't mind... at all

Considering I had already planned on creating half a dozen (give or take a few) alts com issue 24, it would pretty much business as usual.

I'm going to be honest -

If I had to start over with absolutely nothing I don't think I would. I'm emotionally attached to my "main" characters. I've invested a lot of time making them exactly how I want them. Restarting them, I would feel pressured and rushed to get them back up to exactly how they are now. And really, the thought of investing that much time again is not appealing. I already went through the journey and now I just want to reap the rewards that I earned.

And for my badge *****... yea I don't know if I want to go through that again.

And really, the main reason for the hesitation is because what if something like this happens again? It's bad enough having my (game)world come crashing down around me, but if the "next venture" doesn't work, or doesn't last, it would be even more so devastating.

At the moment, that's how I feel. If the game shuts down and restarts with a blank slate, would I continue to play? Right now, probably not. But if enough friends stuck around I might consider it.

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Costumes are saved. Everything else is just levels and IOs. Wouldn't prefer to restart, but it would have some advantages too.

I'd miss things - characters, badges, vet perks - but yeah, I'd do it.

If I had to yes I could start over. Does not mean I would like it but I could do it. Besides with how long it takes to get to level 50 now, I would have most of my characters back in a year or less.

i'd roll with it, might give me a chance to update some characters that are too old for me to want to re-roll, but have better analogs now.

maybe rian would be a ma/nin stalker, seraph would be a nature/archery defender, violet would be a plant/nature controller . better stuff exists now, and a fresh start would kinda work.

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I'd miss some of my most-played characters, but since I play to level far more than I play end-game stuff, it wouldn't phase me at all. I'd just remake the combos I like best and work on them first, while pulling along some less-played combos just to experience them. Would we at least start with VEATs unlocked? Probably make a new widow pretty early in my restart cycle.

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Not at all.. if we restart where the game is now with new characters id roll out an ice/em pratorian, a fire/kin troller in primal and a brute of some sort to start out!

Hell No

as long as I got to play with you guys and the Devs