Asherons Call: Soapbox - How I Play, Part 1

About a week ago I sent an email out to 30 or so random players. I picked staff members of this site, DNN, Vault, lorebies, gimps and powerlevelers - I tried to make it as diverse as I could. I asked them to write about:

[li]How do you play? Then? Now?
[li]What do you think of the direction the game is taking? How does it affect you?
[li]What suggestions you would have if you could make them to the devs?

[b]How I Play, Part 1[/b]