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a whole month... and you brought it back...

thanks for bringing this to the top...

That is basically the exact story of my first LS. We were all together since we were newbs. We did the SJ quest together, adv job quests, pretty much everything. I was the leader of the LS. I went away on holidays for 2 months in the summer and when I came back the LS had broken up. I tried getting everyone back together, but evenutally everyone quit. I was the only person left playing the game out of the 14 people that were the regular LS members. I tried to find another LS, but the one that I lost was so good that nothing seemed to even compare. I've basically been quit the game for a year now because I can't seem to find any good stable LS's or friends. I log on once in a while for something to do, but it just isn't the same anymore. I still love the game, but it's lonely being alone.

Just noticed that the english version posted at the start of the thread no longer works, seems it was removed :(. However, through a little google searching, I managed to find the original japanese version of this movie, it is located here:

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Domino/6394/meetingagain.swf
You will get a japanese yahoo page, just copy the address and paste it instead, its a hotlinking protection.

I love this story, such a good thing it brings up. No matter how many times I watch it, I still get misty eyed. Plus, I love the music.

Makes me think of all the people who have left my LS for greener pastures that i'll never see again. /sniff

Edited, Tue Nov 15 02:09:01 2005 by shinreineko

Thanks for bringing this post up, I could never read all the text fully. I don't read that fast.

I sometimes type what is going on in my adventures into my linkshell when everyone is offline or AFK. They are all higher level than me so they already know everything. Its kind of disheartening.

This game isn't really a mystery anymore. Once an update comes out its a race to see who can post the FFXIUtilities info fastest on Alla. All the quests are documented and commented on. You can't play this game with ignorance anymore. You need to know exactly what you or doing or people get frustrated with you. How awesome would it be to run with a full party to Jeuno, completely wipe, run again and still have a fun time.

I ran to Jeuno at level 18 BLM because my friend was starting to play in Sandy and I was in Windurst. I ran my little heart out, it took hours. I had no idea how to dodge aggro. I died alot, but I kept going.

I remember sitting in Sauromaough Champlaigne (sp, i know) right in the shortcut shouting for someone to help me by the lizards and gobbies watching high levels run by me on chocobos. I was jealous.

I finally got to Jeuno and a RDM helped me all the way to sandy (after a failed teleport attempt cause I didn't have the crystal). I had no idea what refresh was, and I was amazed when he told me about it. He said it was RDM only and that sort of disappointed me. It was fun doing all that, but I was still alone.

What I wish I could do is be one of the first people in Jeuno when everyone else was arriving. I would /cheer as new players came in, welcome them to Jeuno and congratulate them on their accomplishiment. I would remind them to set their home point and look up the chocobo quest. Maybe I would throw some fireworks as they came in.

I did that once, kind of. I wanted to get rid of my 60 or so brilliant snows so I just sat in the archway of lower jueno and set off all of them. Some people came over and dance under it, someone pretended they were a king. Lower Jeuno is too much like an actual city, it is scary. Sometimes it is hard to consider this a game an actual game. People get so caught up into their characters that they actually act like themselves! I wish I could walk around and lighten people up a bit, but I don't know how to do that.


Edited, Tue Nov 15 03:03:37 2005 by xxsidekickxx

In my opinion this story needs to be read by everyone who has felt that they have lost the sense of adventuring.

I remember reading this way back in the day and now reading it ounce again just brings back memories.

I hope by my bumping of this thread more people read it.

It's amazing to see this story back in circulation. I remember watching this about a year ago and how blown away I was at the absolute inoccence and sincerity of the message within. This is truly what the game was about when i first started way back when and its sad to watch it now become some perverse pissing contest. Bump to this thread if only to let one more person see it and maybe take something along with them.

Wow....just...wow. /cry

Hmmm that links dead on the first post on this thred though..maybe someone could update it to the new url, which is

http://koti.phnet.fi/santamik/FFXI/meetingagain-en.swf

/cry

I am a grown man and im in tears over this. I admit that i too lost myself in the grind.. wanting so bad to be the first rdm in my ls to 75 that i forgot them all. I became obsessed with the grind to the point that it drove me from the game. My lS was dead, my friends scattered to the four winds. I was alone and i didn't like it. My best friend wyld and i had lvled our mains together and our subs, then we drifted apart when he went to lvl nin and i continued to lvl rdm. The sad part is that we used to take joy in exploring, looking at this world that was created for us and for all the adventures through out the world.

Now after a year of not playing i have returned to a bitter sweet homecoming. All of my friends are gone, either nolonger playing or moved on to a different server. I have been unable to find anyone from my first LS save one. Wyld..who after solong smiled and waved to me just like old times.. we talked but that was a month ago.. After seeing this i am even more determined to see all that i missed in my frantic rush to lvl 54. I don't care about the grind, i care about having friends and seeing this beautiful world that we all inhabit together.

I may be taking this too seriously to most but after seeing that video i can't help but remember all the good times i had when everything in this game was new. I want that back.

OMg... i want to see the flash but the link is dead. ... i read the story... im an adventurer to so i feel her pain. My friends left me too. But i'll catch them one day.

meetingagain-en.swf

You know, I watched my LS follow this story up to the portion of being alone.

There are days I long for the times of old. I miss seeing my friends in the linkshell laughing and having fun.

This game's pace drives us all to seek our own path at times.

But there is still this desire to one day have everyone come home again.

*wipes away his tears and gets back to his cleaning*