Guess Who’s Back..
I tried to leave it but i couldn’t. People came out of the woodwork to try and convince me to come back. The return started simply enough.
“I’ll just update the client on my PC, i never play it anywhere but it would be good to have it up to date”, “I’ll just peek in on the forums and see how everyone is doing, what everyone’s up to these days.”, “I can quit anytime I want, it’s just a time sink. I have better things to do now, the beach, the woods, the mountains, the cities, playing poker.”
Who was i fooling, other than myself it seems? I couldn’t stay away. Just hearing the crystal theme draws me back. It’s like smelling delicious food and having my mouth water, I can’t help it really. I am a FFXI addict it seems. I updated my ps2 client late last thursday night. It took about an hour and then i popped in-game and looked around. I was just trying to see if there were any people online that I actually knew anymore since lots of my older ffxi friends have stopped playing. It’s amazing how real life always seems to get in the way of things.
The shock in the linkshell messages just brought a huge smile on my face. People actually missed me and were glad to see me back in-game. Total strangers to me were wondering where i can been and newbies were wondering why all the older players were freaking out. It was great..and so far it continues to be good. There’s so much untapped FFXI for me. There’s the new(ish) expansion that i still need to purchase and install. Hell, there’s tons of content from the original install and the Rise of the Zilart and CoP expansions that I’ve barely scratched. To top it off they added 3 more new jobs that I’m dying to try out.
All in all, I’m glad to be back playing FFXI, although it’s not the same as the ‘good ole days’, where my co-workers and I would talk about FFXI during the workdays and then hang out and play FFXI and party up during the evenings. Some of those times were the most enjoyable times I’ve had playing any sort of game, be in a video game or basketball or football or whathaveyou. FFXI isn’t the same as it was then, but it’s still enjoyable to me. I guess that’s why thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people keep playing FFXI and MMORPG’s just like it
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