Something we may have neglected....Follow

I'm going to make my whole LS read this. This is something important.

Amaterasu thanks for the wonderful translated flash version.

sorry if this has been said, havent read all the posts. I think there is a moral behind that story. As people grow old or levels, people tend to forget other things but the next level and next level. As people grow in power or uberness, it will change them. Majority of people do.

So dont forget all your good buddies or how you get to where you are now. Even if the level range is too wide, switch to another job and go chill around.

Wow..absolutely amazing
It's really changed the way I look at the game now, I think; I remember when I first played the game, everything was so new and cool... Now, every day, it seems like the same thing
Level up, do a quest that is in the way of leveling up further, level up more, do another quest (af), level up another job with static party...
There needs to be more people who think more about the actual adventurism of the game and less of how they can get to the next level.
I really feel like I should probably apologize to everyone I've ever partied with now, haha...
Thank you, everyone^^

I absolutly agree with you.... we were all new to this game too. i do not charge anything when i help ppl, i was glad to have the help when i was lvl 1 and i just hope the ppl i help continue the same way. Fortunatly i am in an LS that thinks the same way i do.

Great story, I felt bad because I spend more time doing other things than leveling, and now I am proud. How do I see the video?

to see the vid right click and save as..

or stream it (it might take a while to load).

bump :)

Wow. That hit me hard. /cry

just thought I'd put in a small comment here ^^
I had an awsome static party from lvl 40 all the way to 60, but we saw that exactly this was starting to happen, we had gone from 40 to 60 in a very short time, gotten good equipment fast by helping eachother and what-not, but all of a sudden we realized maybe we missed out on some parts of the game doing this.
So my static party is now on a 2 month pause, except for leveling subjobs and maybe even some other job for fun we all vowed to spend 2 months doing smaller quests, crafting and generaly just doing other stuff other then EXPing.
And after 1 month of this I can tell you, it's fun, there's so huge ******** of stuff to do in this game that you can keep yourself ocupied for hours on end and have fun without gaining a single EXP point and still feel happy when you log out for the day.

FFXI is a exceedingly deep game with a awsome story and loads of fun side-stories that you can enjoy. You just got to want to do it.

The day we go back out on the killing-fields and start aiming for levels again I know I'll have more fun doing it then before because I'll feel more a part of the Vanadiel world then I did before.

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...Maybe it's just that I'm equating this to life too much...
....but I really, really can't stop crying...
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It seems wrong for that story to make me cry..
...The grind is everything, I said. This coming from the guy who spends all of his time farming for gear...
...It truly is times like this that I am glad I only use this site to talk...
And the part that saddens me... my LS could probably use reading this. I wasn't there at the start... but they all started off as fellow noobs, running around together...
...my friend gave me a pearl into it. Since we were friends. He was level 58 when I started, as was a mutual friend (But far more of him), Angelin. They hit 60. They got their AF. Got to 62. Then Angelin started exploring. Playing other jobs. And do you know what Dyluck did? He waited. I never understood why. Until now.
Edit: I should mention, just today, I was reading the whole storyline. From ancient past to the Promathia missions. It's the first time, in a LONG time of playing RPGs, that I ever regretted doing so after the fact...
"I play for the gameplay. Who cares about story?"... but that's the first time I ever realized just how much I should have. It won't change how I play normal RPGs. But it's going to change how I play FFXI. Even as we speak, I'm actively forgetting as much as I can.

Edited, Tue Oct 26 15:52:15 2004 by HunterShu

Awesome, and one of the reasons I'm thinking of switching to EQ2 when it comes out. World-wide release means you can explore it with people from all over instaed of playing catch-up like we NA players did with FFXI. I love this game but I would rather enjoy it with good people than just try to be the 100th Elvaan PLD to get to 75.