Quote Originally Posted by charlemagne View Post
If they had brought out a full expansion like this instead of that abomination that was Abbysea I would most likely still be playing. It's like your former lover getting on with their life without you. You'll always wonder how they are getting on even if they aren't the one for you anymore.
Wow... I think I agree with every word of this.

Level cap being raised and abyssea being released ruined FFXI for me. I may go back and try out the expansion, but I find myself less interested in Geomancer than when I originally saw/played it in older FF's. Mostly, though, I just never liked the idea of all the gear I worked for through various events at 75 cap being replaced with 76-99 drops from the farmfest that is Abyssea. I hear they added some more stuff, but each iteration only replaces the last it seems nowadays. Pre-Abyssea all events had gear that was useful to someone, and BiS for something. Now, in most cases, BiS items are from whatever the latest event is. I just don't find years of events I thought fun, and gear I always liked being replaced by a few mini-expansions and useless level cap increases (whats the point of an increase when you make leveling itself too easy).

Just a few of the reasons why an FFXI expansion doesn't interest me as much as 2.0 launch. FFXIV is new, and even if they start increasing level cap it wouldn't feel as much of a slap in the face as it seemed in FFXI.