I'm in the exact same boat as Ura, I think. And on the question of having 2 distinct groups here, I have to agree, but that's changing too.
I'll explain.
When the CPA was founded last year most of our members joined for very specific reasons. We did not like the direction our game, Magic, was going in, and we had resolved to do something about it. Hence, the Casual Players Alliance was born.
We had differing reasons for joining, to be sure. Personally, I did not like what Urza's block did to the game, and I really hated some of the rules changes instituted by 6th Edition. The Waylay ruling was the catalyst for most of the Founders, if I remember right.
Now, that's water under the bridge. Nobody (and I mean
NOBODY!) cares about the Waylay thing anymore, most everyone who had problems with 6th ed. rules has either reconciled themselves with them or quit the game altogether, and the last 2 blocks have been so lame no one will
ever confuse them with Urza's.
In other words, there's nothing left to bitch about.
In the meantime, we've managed to settle into quite the coffee house atmosphere here, so naturally most everyone who's joined lately isn't really into the issues surrounding the game like we were. We've rather turned into a community of friends who have one main thing in common, the game of Magic.
And, as is the nature of friends/friend relationships, when that one thing becomes less important to a friend, then that friend will tend to drift away.
As I find myself drifting.
So please, don't take it as an insult when I don't reply to your posts. It's not that I don't consider your words to have meaning, or that I think they're unimportant. It's simply the fact that life is taking me to other interests right now - interests that don't eat up $300 plus a year in upkeep (pun intended), and the best I can manage to give you all right now is a promise to continue moderating the boards.
We all give what we can, I guess.
