Celebrating the North American FINAL FANTASY XI 8th Year Anniversary!

[Nianny]

I remember wayyyyyy back when. Leveling in west ronafure, i used to run all the way back to my mog house everytime my HP got low lol. It took a week or so before i realized this remarkable Hot key "<ctrl>H".

Speaking of which... I'd hit the "log out" to rest and then get up before the 30 seconds count down finished. Took me a while to find the proper resting button.

[Laraul]

In the summer of '04, my entire linkshell decided to complete the rank 3 mission (the climb up Delkfutt's Tower) as one large alliance. Most people in the group we're Rank 3 at the time, and needed to complete the mission to obtain Rank 4. It was a long climb and with party levels stretching from 25 to 50 it took the efforts of all 18 people. A very enjoyable climb and one of the rare times an alliance was used for a non-endgame event.

In December of '05 I had spent two weeks in the hospital. After that much time in such a controlled enviroment your first day or so it takes a while to adjust... I decided to login to the game... there was a version update, an update I knew nothing about... and moments after logging into the game I spotted a monster chasing a player running from it. Moments later it stopped... and then to my shock it just vanished! The only thoughts going thru my mind we're "Maybe they sent me back to early." I later learned that this was because the developers finally implimented a "MPK" fix.

[HimuraKenshyn]

Memories of the first time I stepped into the dunes as a level 10 warrior vs the dreaded killer bunnies again. The joy of trying to make it pass the gobs and undead to make it over to the lizard camps and the constant shouts for raises for gil now dem was the days. Now the dunes are just a ghost place and just a gateway to another abyssea zone.

[Zarabeth]

I started in Windy Elvaan rdm (noob that I was, I thought elf meant mana user!) ran to Sandy with a friend at lvl 10. Met a cute little taru in the dunes my first time partying there and became fast friends. He was attached to my ankle for the next 50 levels. Such good times we had!
I kinda miss the days when you didn't dare show up in a party without decent gear (and you never showed up only half geared) and you made sure you had all your spells and skills up to date.

[Vold]

I still remember my first trek to Jeuno. It was after my first few dunes parties and the group of us were like, let's walk to Jeuno! "Walk to Jeuno.... yeaaaaaaaah" That was certainly an interesting and fearful journey 7 years ago. Blasted Jugner tigers, I tell you.

[Wolfandre]

Hey Camate/Rukkirii/Bayohne/Hvinire....

Who is that FFXI Original Soundtrack: Premium Box signed by?

[Zaknafein]

Another favorite memory of mine was when the Shadowlord BC opened on Ramuh. Think we unlocked it on the 2nd conquest tally after it was introduced. The walk up through the Castle was pretty gnarly, and people stuck close to each other even if they were not in the same party. Many times complete strangers. What I remember most fondly about the week it was open was not so much the fight itself, but the foyer outside the entrance to the Burning Circle.

All the party leaders stood in a line single file in front of the door to keep the order of entry. Everyone regardless of language was respectful, and there was a very pleasant atmosphere. This was of course during the peak of HNM's, and you had people there from all sorts of rival shells. That with the added mixture of several different spoken languages, and everyone waiting sometimes upwards of an hour and a 1/2 to 2 hours made for a situation ripe with potential drama.

All week though when I went to use up all my ops people were completely courteous. It made me feel not only proud to be from Ramuh, but even something larger than that. How many other games out there could add all those variables into the equation, and still have that excellent of a setting.

I only know of one.

[Camate]

Hey Camate/Rukkirii/Bayohne/Hvinire....

Who is that FFXI Original Soundtrack: Premium Box signed by?

Hiromichi Tanaka
Naoshi Mizuta
Kumi Tanioka
Arata Hanyuda
Akihiko Matsui
Koichi Ogawa
Mitsutoshi Gondai
Kenichi Iwao
Sage Sundi
Koji Fox

Perhaps one day this will be a prize for something...

[Babekeke]

What, no sig from Devin Casadey and the other infamous moogles of the forums!? ;p

[Asymptotic]

Camate, you're kind of cute. Are you single?