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The below is my post when I thought I was unable to return to FFXI. I still mean all the sweet and nice things within it, and it's still an issue SE needs to deal with.. but yea, GlobalConnect is like Honey Badger. It don't give a ****.
So yea, Pawky isn't dead no more.
First, my explanation, in video form.
I haven't been in these forums in forever, primarily because I left FFXI when my credit card was cancelled during the time the info got stolen. I just never re-upped because I was no longer able to keep up with the progression grind. I was also more interested in playing FFXIV with my fiancee. She never really got into XI.
It's insane to think that I spent nearly 6 years playing pretty much solely FFXI, with rare deviations. In my final 4 years, my playtime gradually ran down, spiking back up when they introduced Abyssea. I have had so many friends, and so many fun nights on this game. And while I would never be able to capture that same feeling again by going back, it was always comforting that I could.
I will miss wandering the zones, hunting NM's. I will miss sitting in Sky, marveling at its design. I'll miss seeing the insane shouts that sometime crop up. I'll even miss my spinning little moogle.
I long to see my little house again, with all my trinkets and toys gathered from years of play. I miss even the vacant friend list I have, with names that haven't logged on in years. I wish I could go into the field once more as my Beastmaster. Or as my Dancer.
I didn't want it to end this way. I would have preferred to be there when the servers went dark. I was there near the beginning, I would have loved to be there at the end.
I know here on Zam I have friends and enemies. I have contributed, trolled, mocked and joked with many of you. And while I will bet that many of those whom I knew in my infancy here are gone, there are likely a few steadfast fixtures lurking around.
To those whom I met through here, thank you for your friendship. If this is truly the end, and I can find no other solution to resurrect my account, then this will be my final set of posts here at the XI boards. I don't often come to Zam anymore, just not much of a forum lurker/dweller as I used to be. It could likely mean my time here is done too. But then OoT exists, or at least I think it does.
To those whom I have never met, I wish you well in the game. I do not hate XI, I don't even truly hate SE. I'm just terribly sad that this is how my time ends.
And to all of you, treasure your moments in game. Some may say it's sad to enjoy a video game that much, but truly XI has been, and continues to be, a social game. Sure, you are able to do more with fewer, but having friends makes the game that much better.
With that, I withdraw for now, and hope that somehow this is not the end of me.
Edited, Oct 15th 2014 4:38pm by Pawkeshup
Edited, Oct 15th 2014 4:40pm by Pawkeshup