Enough is enough

[Chocobits]

Not quoting above cuz it's long, but generally I'm in agreement, although hours after the super bowl is too soon for football analogies - some of us are butthurt! Not me, but others I'm sure.

What I love about FFXI is that, I took a 14 month break to focus on my career, my relationship with my married GF, and my life in general. I missed the game and came back after the announcement of a pending expansion pack, as I'm sure many did.

When I left, my BLU was near-perfect on gear (only 85 on my Almace though), my BLM was in good shape (minus magian staves, still using 8/8 HQ), and my WAR, while not perfectly geared still had 4/5 Emp +2, full merits and some choice pieces. I come back and BLU is lol again outside of Abyssea, and everyone has consumed all the 2 1/2 content pieces outside of Abyssea, and with nothing better to do or spend their money on, they farmed up relics and even mythics and then raised them all to max. And my LS had broken due to everyone wanting to join one of the 3 top shells and some humorous love triangle drama. So I come back and I get lol'd all the way back to Windurst Waters to turn in my Adventurer's Coupon all over again.

As easy as relics are to obtain, I just don't have it in me to make one. I have multiple jobs leveled but the only job I have leveled worth making a weapon for would be WAR.. except that I would rather work on my BLU, despite it not being utilized in Legion/PW at all. I don't want to relic/emp a secondary job just to have access to content to gear my preferred jobs.

The moral of this story: Don't leave the game to pursue love, happiness and success. Quitters never win. If I hadn't quit I probably woulda broken down and just maxed out WAR so that I could enjoy all the endgame stuffs.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Don't leave the game to pursue love, happiness and success.

And people wonder why there aren't any new players...