Turn out the lights, the party’s over.

Three years ago (ok, a few weeks shy of three years) I had this idea. All the guides and lists and such that I kept writing and putting on the forums of various guilds would be consolidated in one place. Perhaps I would even write some cheerful commentary to go with it.

It would be my online bookshelf, but I would make it a library that others could read from as well. I would start a blog.

It funny now, looking back, and rereading some of my posts. Posts about Vanilla WoW and The Burning Crusade, with its guides and lists and funny stories. I posted nearly every day and it always seemed bright and sunny. No wonder I had far more readers then.

Then came Wrath, which kind of left me cold. It showed in my writing.

In mid-WotLK came the dungeon finder. I can almost sense my opinion of the game and my writings about it taking on a bitter and cynical view at that point. Hell, my most popular post of all time was a rather vicious rant about a group of asshats mishandling the LFD system. 

With Cataclysm I had hoped to get back into the groove of writing good things about the game.

I tried, really tried, to find the joy in it that I once had.

I can’t find it.

I still play the game, though not nearly as much as before. Yet I just can’t seem to find it in me to write about it any more.

I think  I’m done. I don’t want to be that cranky cynical old blogger forever bitchin about how it used to be.

While I will still be around, and still playing on occasion, I am putting Dechion’s Place on indefinite hiatus.

I may be back, but I honestly doubt it.

It’s far more likely that this is goodbye.

On my way out I just wanted to thank all of those that have supported me over the years I have been writing here, whether it’s other writers, commenters, or simply those folks that pass through and read some of my stuff.

Thanks folks, for a blog about a fantasy game, it sure has been real.

~Dechion