Quote Originally Posted by Mihana View Post
I can't say I'd be willing to start from scratch all over again. Couldn't really say if I'd certainly quit but the odds would be pretty high. A great deal of time has been put into so many characters for so many people. And for those who wanna say it wouldn't be such a bad thing tell you what: Delete your character, don't keep ANY items, gil, or stuff and make a brand new character. Make sure you don't accept gil, help, or handouts from anyone. After that, come back rethink the whole thing, okay?
I wouldn't want a character wipe to happen for any reason, but starting over from scratch isn't that hard...I actually did it when I stopped playing on Trabia and moved to Lindblum. Completely fresh, no help or gil or handout items. So did my brother.

So on a single person basis, it's definitely not the complete doom and gloom like you're making it out to be. Of course, such a thing happening to an entire playerbase would be the death stroke.