It all started one day, two years ago at this point I believe? Pretty innocent, I was just playing roblox and I noticed this new game called “Rogue Lineage”. Everyone was either hating on it or praising it and I wanted to see why.
I bought the game and spawned in this town called “Alana” and immediately got the everloving shit kicked out of me by a bunch of people there, before I was allowed to progress. After that, there were some laughs, but I started progressing, joined a house, got my first super class, everything a normal kid goes through when they first try rogue lineage.
I think things were taking a turn for the worse when I first got ultra spy to follow the meta, because sometimes I would wake up in the morning with no memory, only to be told by my friends that I had been ganking until 4 AM. That was just the first night, many were to follow.
My grades started to drop, my health started deteriorating, in hindsight this would have been more manageable if I was 21 and ready to play rogue lineage, but I was very far gone. Once khei dropped, I was in the general chat of their server spamming “get gud” and “Uber oni bossraid”.
After that, I can barely remember the 6 months of khei gameplay, where I was in a gaming stupor. Every day it was the same thing, wake up, play rogue lineage in khei, go to sleep. My social life dropped. I should’ve died, but I didn’t. Eventually, I was given a chance to get better when I was pulled over for texting my rogue lineage house in the group chat. I was let off with a warning and put into therapy to recover, and I slowly drifted away from using rogue lineage to cope with playing rogue lineage.
My life has never been better since I stopped playing rogue lineage. I no longer wake up with headaches and regret, every day has been joyful and I’ve started to make new friends and regain old ones. I’m happy to say this is my 2nd month clean of rogue lineage, and even if the withdrawl is hard, I remember how great it feels to be alive and happy now, and I’ll keep working to make it better.