From the very day Horizons launched there have been folks seemingly obssessed with insuring the death of this game. The membership of this cabal has changed a bit from time to time, but its goal has been unchanging and unswerving: trash Horizons, its owners, its players, on every single forum possible. Proclaim its imminent demise whenever and wherever possible. If (as is usually the case) they have no facts to justify the trashing, then by golly they'll just guess and speculate and rumor monger in the hopes those rumors become accepted "fact." And almost without exception this group's membership has consisted of folks who no longer play the game, if they ever did in the first place.
And I have never understood this obssession.
It's like this methinks. I have this ugly dog. His name is Tom. He's a "Heinz 57" mutt who won't win any dog show awards. He's blind in one eye, and he pees on my floor way too often. But every day when I get home from the office he's always there waiting for me, overjoyed to see me. He jumps all over me, and we play and we play until both of us are exhausted. He doesn't bother anyone else. And I love him to death. Tom will die one day. He may even be dying now. Why would anyone want my dog Tom to die sooner rather than later?
I play this ugly game. Its name is Horizons . . . .