I'm contemplating a departure from FFXI.

Why? Because I picked up Skyrim this holiday and remembered how utterly entertaining games could be.

I've also been reading up on Guild Wars 2 and it looks like it will be much more flexible and engaging than FFXI. It also helps that the marketing literature does a fantastic job of bringing across the development team's enthusiasm for the game and the new directions they want to take the MMO genre. If that game lives up to even a fraction of my expectations it will have absolutely no trouble prying me away from FFXI.

The grass is greener elsewhere.