Quote Originally Posted by Fuyuqi View Post
Welp I finally reached my limit of just not being able to do the main thing I pay for this game for (raiding in pf). I'm now an Aether resident. Gave up years of history, friends, a community that I felt a connection with, a private house, an fc house, and an fc. All because I simply could not play the game as a crystal resident. Congrats square enix, you squeezed an extra couple bucks out of me.

And just to kick me in the nuts, I had to spend hours clearing out my private estate, apartment, and fc room's furnishings and storage just to discard or sell all the items because I can't just give up the room and choose to discard all my furnishings at once, I had to do it one by one by one. At least maybe now I can play the game again.

EDIT: wanted to add, but the thing that pisses me off most is that I felt like I was forced into making this choice just because I happened to start on the same dc as my real life friends years ago. There was no way I could have known I would have enjoyed raiding when I started so I couldn't have just "picked the raiding dc", and dc travel wasn't even out yet so I couldn't have predicted any of this. I just wanted to try the game my friends played like anybody would, and ended up feeling like my hand was forced into giving up a lot of the secondary things I like about the game in order to play the main content I enjoy. At least now with my house gone I don't feel any pressure to keep my sub going, so I can finally turn my auto renewal off.
This really does kinda resonate with me. I moved to aether a couple years ago to raid and it turned out to be the worst decision I ever made, but I made a lot of friends over there. Come dawntrail I decided to move back to primal because I have a lot of history there. I expected dc travel to shut down yeah but man, I thought I'd be able to go back and check in on my friends a little while after launch. 6 months goddamn later, a lot of those friendships withered away because there's no convenient way to hang out, and I'm sitting here wondering if I should've just stuck it out in aether.