To all adventurers and pioneers!

[Yinnyth]

Your game character does not belong to you, it belongs to SE. The terms of service go out of their way to make this abuntantly clear. You're giving up nothing by leaving.




There's this restaurant I like to eat my lunches at. Thom's Bistro. I eat there almost every day. Reasonable prices, food tastes good, and they come out with some new menu items every couple months. Always fun to try out something new, though I must admit some of them were not to my liking. That's fine though, plenty other stuff on the menu that I still like. Over the years, it's just sort of become part of who I am, and that's ok with me. I really like it there.

But there's this one guy who seems to disagree with me. He's there almost every day I'm eating my lunch. He orders something, eats it, pays for it, then goes up to the counter to tell the staff that their food tastes horrible, costs too much, and the wait staff never listens to what he wants. After making his dramatic scene, he leaves. And then he's back the very next day. Every now and then, he tells them that if they don't get it right next time, he's never coming back.

One day, he finally did it. He finally walked out that door and never came back. Half the people in the bistro stood up and applauded him as he stormed out the door that final time. Apparantly they all share his view that the food tastes horrible and the prices are too high, but for some reason they believe that if they harass the staff long enough, the bistro will change and become something they like. They feel like the fact that they eat lunch there every day entitles them to make changes to the restaurant.

I really do wish they'd all just leave and never come back. Would be nice if I could have a conversation with my waiter without some unhappy patron interrupting to let everyone in earshot know that their soup is too cold.

[Merton9999]

I really do wish they'd all just leave and never come back. Would be nice if I could have a conversation with my waiter without some unhappy patron interrupting to let everyone in earshot know that their soup is too cold.

I see where you're coming from. However, rather than a restaurant, I liken FFXI more to people who continue to live in a ghetto neighborhood, despite the drug deals, prostitutes, criminals, abandoned buildings, and politicians with empty promises. For some it's a seemingly inescapable cycle of poverty. Others stay for the friends, family and history that still give that neighborhood a sense of home.

We could all just move to a different neighborhood, but that's a lot more difficult than switching restaurants. Having been unsuccessful at convincing my own RL friends and family to try another MMO, instead I enjoy their company here while still hoping for the atmosphere to improve, and cheering on those that break away.

[Demon6324236]

Your game character does not belong to you, it belongs to SE. The terms of service go out of their way to make this abuntantly clear. You're giving up nothing by leaving.

So I assume were your character banned, all of your things deleted, you would not care? You would give it no mind or thought after it happened because it was not your character after all? No, your argument is fairly flawed from this standpoint, it is your character in the fact it has become part of your identity, much as this restaurant has that you speak of. People are choosing to give up that part of their identity in order to make a stand of sorts and hopefully pull attention to this particular issue. Basically these people are not giving up something they have no care about, that they have no sense of attachment to, rather they are giving up something they have an attachment to because they have given up hope that SE will ever fix their problems, because more keep stacking up, and its gotten to the point they simply give up.

[SpankWustler]

I get why people are jumpy. Wings of the Goddess launched with Campaign, Campaign, Campaign, and additionally Campaign. There were a grand total of three zones that were actually new. The expansion never gained that much ground, either.

From what's been shown over the live streams, though, it feels like Seekers of Adoulin is more likely to similar to Treasures of Aht Urhgan at launch. It won't be anything near complete right out of the box, but there will be almost a dozen new areas and more than one event. Also, if the items shown in the last Japanese livestream are anything to go by, there will be actual rewards.

If the things given a loose date aren't pushed back, Summer isn't that far off at all. If a lot of stuff is pushed back and Darker Ixion starts showing up in half the new zones as a symbol of stuff I really hate, that's when I'll rage and roar and write a novella about the dictates of the limbless insect lord who moves through time on its undulating underbelly.

For now, though, I'm just happy they've given out a time frame and that most of the stuff on it is scheduled for Summer.

There's this restaurant I like to eat my lunches at.

You don't have to browse Yelp reviews calling a place's food "overcooked vegetables shaped into crude dwellings for dysfunctional families of under-seasoned meat married to strangely scatological sauces" on your smartphone while waiting for your lunch.