DarkswordDX wrote:
Because my friends could come with me.
Our crew is a mishmash of PC and console gamers. Most of us met for the first time in Phantasy Star Online back on the Dreamcast. We moved to PSOEP1+2 on the Gamecube and PC when it launched. Then we moved to FFXI when the PS2 version launched, picking up new members along the way. We called our LS the Knights of Deneb, since we were well known in PSO circles as "the Deneb 4 Crew" on account of always using Deneb server, Block 4 for our meetings. Played XI for 9 years, minus a brief stint in Phantasy Star Universe (terrible, horrible game), and about 4 or 5 months after the second Abyssea mini-expansion we all just drifted apart. A lot of us were getting out of college, finding jobs, starting families, and just didn't have the time. Plus most of us hated Abyssea (the lighting effect used to literally cause me migraines >.<) and it was becoming clear that it was the future of Vana'diel. I let my credit card expire and just never bothered to get a new one or worry about FFXI again. We were briefly excited to hear about XIVs launch, but this was 1.0. We had to wait for the console version that was never to come, and the reviews of the PC version nixed it for us. We didn't talk to eachother for several years.
Sounds a lot like my story, except I only played FFXI for half a year on xbox, and quit after my friends did, only to see them come back, so I started up again, then they quit again, so then I quit for good, and then they started back up again >< . Also, I stuck with Phantasy Star Universe and hit 180 long after all my friends abandoned the game. With a bit more support from the crap company that is Sega of America it could have been great.
I was the first of my group on the FFXIV bandwagon. First time I've been first on the bandwagon in any MMO, it feels nice.