To be honest, the question for me is impossible to answer. I can't give just one story. For the past (nearly) four years, playing this game has literally changed my life. I nearly left the game a couple months into playing, until I started a new world and got accepted into the guild I am still in today. They helped me, motivated me to play, and became almost like a second family. Many of those original players don't play anymore, but now as a leader of that guild I do my best to take that mentality forward to new guildies and build a stronger guild. Without that guild (Last Dynasty, on Angkor, now known as Arc Dynasty) I would have quit. But because of their kindness to a new player that knew nothing, I am in their debt. Without them, I never would have stayed long enough to see the Cultural Settlements launch, never have written a horrible guide for them, and never posted it on this forum.
Without the community of this game, I never would have revised that first version of the guide, and made it into something I could actually be proud of. I also never would have written the Higher Age Units Guide, one of the most viewed guides in the game's entire history.
I guess what I'm trying to say is the Forge of Empires is much more than a game to me. It's a game, yes, but also a place to meet incredible people I never would have, to have fun and support each other, and to each continue to build each other, like our cities, stronger and better,
Nobody Ever got Past my City Defense Again...
