This is a long one... buckle up. @the77bit's beta might have only lasted a few weeks, but I feel like I have been playing the game every day since the team started ramping up marketing again for the beta back in September 2024. My goal for 77-Bit was never about being the best or having the most Bytes, it was about what stands at the core of the franchise for me: community. A community centered around a common love/nostalgia for gaming. There are many things in my life which have shaped who I am today, but one of them was undoubtedly my first MMORPG many years ago. Being able to reinvent myself in a new world and share this adventure with amazing friends I made along the way sounds cheesy af, but is one of my personal core memories. That is how 77-Bit made me feel again. • From the thousands of messages I have sent on Discord shitposting with fellow apes @0xmithril77 and @cosmicP3ar. • The dozens of campaigns I spent hours participating in. • All the games I played learning poker with the holders (shoutout @arizonyaa @Somchaidotavax @spacezilla7 @NFTRINITY12 @SolElengs) until my very first win. • Receiving my first feet pic (and sharing it with @Dadaaacutie) • Buying a lot more NFTs and finally joining the Legends chads. • Playing the very first Legends only playtest and discovering the insanely beautiful world made by the sweat, tears and blood of @BitBoromir. • Getting to see first hand how genuine @0xfanfaron is and how much he has been doing to share this game with the world. • Logging in every single one of the following playtests, diving as deep into that world as I could. • Getting inspired by Legend @kevzko_eth who was compiling all the quests in the game and instantly hitting it off sharing our info. • Spending countless hours rewatching myself play over and over when I had no game access. • Sharing, noting down and going full nerd on every single important detail of the game with Kevzko in a huge shared notion. • Going through hundreds of thousands of lines of client game files until I knew so much about the game I evolved into Wikireep. • Writing all of this information into multiple guides for other players. • Trying my best to constantly answer questions on Discord or in DMs. • Buying my new rare PFP from absolute OG chad @MooonRabbiit. • Playing the actual Beta for hours upon hours, fully immersing myself in this beautiful world (it had been a long time since I was happy to just be inside a game, not grinding but just enjoying being there). • Exploring all the hidden rooms in Byte City. • Listening to the amazing game soundtrack during every waking hour. • Spending a ridiculous amount of time trying to reach the top of the Arcade leaderboards. • Starting the huge project of building tools and the beginning of the community wiki with my amazing teammate Kevzko to help others have a smoother game experience. • Being the number 1 fan of biggest Abstract streamer, fellow lowball biddor and my new troll brother @locodreamer1391 And most importantly, getting to make all these friends through 77-Bit. On top of all the previous mentions, from hanging out in voice chat with legends (adding @AxKrono @Bloo__Blue @dte_zero @BrightAvian @genape_ @TalkDegenToMe to the already outrageous amount of tags in this post) or from friendly banter with fellow passionate gamers (@miguel_gayo @Hermecles @X3ik0_ @cryptoblazen...) and many more. Boromir and Fanfaron (and the Analog team) built a game that had me playing before it was even released. Because they have this passion themselves. Because they know what unites a community around a game. And because they pulled it off. Showing the whole world with this fraction of their vision that was the beta what a true MMORPG is and how it should make you feel. This is just the beginning. Cheers to all the memories we will continue making together. See you in-game again soon.

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