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Since then, I have owned and played many other GTA games. While I still love the sandbox aspect of gameplay, I now enjoy the storylines just as much.

I have also played [[Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars|GTA Chinatown Wars]] once through the storyline on my [[iPhone]]. I have not played either of the [[GTA IV Episodes|episodes of GTA IV]], and at this point, it seems unlikely that I will. I had wanted to, in order to fill in the missing pieces of the storyline - But the long-term exclusivity for the [[Xbox 360]], coupled with personal circumstances, prevented me from playing them when they were new. Now these games simply aren't my priority.

 

I was, a while back, eagerly awaiting GTA V. However, I started to lose interest several months before release. GTA V releases only about two months before the [[PlayStation 4]], which I intend to be an early adopter of. I see the new generation as a chance to start fresh, as I have missed so many key games this generation due to personal circumstances. Now that has changed, so I want this new generation to be completely different, right from the start. Once I have my PS4, I don't want to be swapping consoles in and out. I would also feel pretty weird playing my PS3 after spending so much money on the PS4, not to mention having to use the old controller... =P With work and other commitments, I don't think I can experience an entire Grand Theft Auto game in two months, especially considering the scale of GTA V, and that's why I started to lose interest. There will be other games to play. I will consider buying GTA V if there is a PS4 port later, but any true next-gen game that I want to play will always take priority over a port.

I became an [[Administrator]] of Grand Theft Wiki in October 2008. When I got the email that [[User:Gboyers|Gboyers]] had edited my [[User talk:JFletcher|talk page]], I had no idea what he was going to say, and the last thing that I thought he was going to say was that I had been promoted. In fact, I was busy and hadn't been on the wiki for three days when I read that email. I however ''did'' know that it was something good, as he had also added me as a friend. Confusing me further was the fact that someone had edited my userpage (I didn't yet know who it was). I later found out that it was Gboyers, adding the {{template|Admin}} template. When I reached my talk page, before I knew that it was about a promotion, my Internet was acting slow, so the extra tools at the top of the page didn't show up straight away, meaning that I didn't notice anything until ''after'' I read the message. Sometimes I wonder if Gboyers regretted the decision to promote me, purely because of the amount of time that I spent asking him stupid questions after that =P.

I left GTW in September 2013. I still love this wiki's content and community, but loss of interest in GTA combined with continuing disagreement with policy changes have made editing here less enjoyable in recent times. There was a time when I seemed to agree with ''every'' policy of GTW, and actually couldn't join in at other communities because of the the differing policies, but those days are slowly drifting away. It doesn't feel like the community has a voice anymore - Rather, a couple of the staff members ''pretend'' to hold communities discussion, but the discussion pages are biased, and these staff just end up doing whatever they want anyway, regardless of what the community consensus is. I also feel that some of the staff that used to be our best editors, are now too busy performing meaningless edits like bypassing redirects in all links, which I think is absolute rubbish. It's an utter waste of time, which doesn't improve the wiki in any way, unnecessarily fills up [[Special:Recent Changes|the list of recent edits]], and makes the wiki MORE difficult to use because of the piped links everywhere. I believe that redirects exist to make pages easier to link to, and that there is no point in avoiding them. I certainly don't believe in the excuse that it makes the wiki more "professional". Additionally, the wiki software seems to always be broken in one place or another, which makes some tasks annoying or even impossible. Leaving GTW was a difficult decision, because I have definitely enjoyed my time here, and I was sort of hoping for a future more similar to the wiki's past.