These are my Reflections:Follow

Lately I have been taking a break from ff to reflect on myself and learn. I have learnt some very interesting things in the last month. Contrary to popular belief, Allakhazam, not the box jellyfish of northern Australia, is the most venomous creature on earth. Within 3 minutes of being bitten, a human being experiences the following symptoms: fever, blurred vision, beard rash, tightness of the jeans, and the feeling of being repeatedly kicked through a car windshield.I hope you all learn as much as I have :).

P.S. I understand how u feel ken, I've been bored with the game as of late and have been trying other MMO's. I hope you figure it out man.

I agree, sure they've added new very cool looking mobs. But god can't they have a diversity in level of the cool looking monsters so there's something new other crabs, bugs and goblins we can level off? I mean common SE your diversity in monsters is so bland it makes me want to vomit all over my computer.

Edited, Tue Jan 17 15:51:19 2006 by Shinkyu

Maybe that will help but man it is hard to do much of anything as of late other than LS Events and Dynamis. I think maybe the inflation has taken it's toll as well. I swear even with as much gil I have attained paying certain prices just makes me scream inside. I have hit many personal goals and it has been hard to look at making new ones I swear getting 5/5 god armor and 5/5 AF2 would make me energized but sadly it hasn't. I have enjoyed so much in this game and just frustated at this point as what's next that will give me a charge. I am banking on the expansion or maybe just after a break the love will come back that I once had. It just never feels the same as those old days that I reflect on.

Hey Kenshyn ^^

I returned to FFXI about a month ago after being gone for roughly 5-6 months. I know what you mean about the fun of this game being sucked out. I have yet to make it to a 75 job but already I was getting sick of the game. However taking a break ten coming back revitalized my drive. Mabey you should just take a break till TaU comes out?

I found that trying to commit yourself to a highly rigid structure (via endgame-LS) is the quickest way to burnout. I have put all mage jobs on hold and am doing WAR, NIN, and THF for a while (all under 20 atm). If anything it has given me completely different appreciation for the tank and DD classes.

I think everyone lost the spark in the game at one point. I quit back in June and never planned to come back. Then for some strange reason in the end of october i was suddenly reinstalling FFXI and couldn't wait to get back on.

Right now my drive is to get my ls to succeed as it is done in my timezone, and now i don't have to stay up till ungodly hours to do stuff.

If there was one thing that burnt me out when i left the game it was staying up till 5am for sky or up till 6am for dynamis. Now i can do those at like 7pm and i'm driven to make it work.

So my advice is take a break from the game. Then come back in a month or a few. And you will feel like playing once again. (However my advice dont sell anything before you leave it sucks getting gear again)

i can totally sympathize with these feelings. i remember just a few months ago when i had a couple million gil i could have afforded almost anything. now im approaching 10 million AND CANT EVEN PURCHASE A SCORP HARNESS OR HAMBURGER (hauby lols). the stagnantion in the game has been caused, in my opinion, by the inflation and the lack of new content. WoW sucks *** imo but at least they are constantly adding new content to the game. i can understand SE wants to only release quality content for FF but must we really wait a year or 2 for each expansion? why cant they introduce new things every few months? even if its 1 new mob type or 1 new piece of armor or 1 new zone. im sure these little things would hold off our boredom for a while while we await new expansions. i also firmly believe that the gilsellers are to blame for a lot of peoples feelings. people have bought so much gil and paid outrageous prices for items which has made many players dependent on buying gil to get the items they want. the cashmere cloth i want is now 35 million gil. it used to be 18-20 mil back in the day. while that was a lot it was attainable by camping and BCNMing my *** off. now the number of NMs we can camp to make money is dwindling. i see gilsellers at amemit, roc, simurgh, serket, mee deggi, quu dommi (or whatever his name is), and a large number of others. oh well i guess ill stop ranting and wait for the maint to end so i can log on and attempt to get mee deggi from the stupid gilsellers. peace

CORN lol yeah I dig it hard for me to deal with that new NM myself 50K for silent oils makes me really really think about leveling alch I guess I would have to farm all my stuff cause prices are like crazy eddie insane in a bad way. Well I may have to stay on the down low and hope the feeling comes back soon.

my linkshell is what keeps me playing this game. best group of friends i have ever made on a MMORPG. there were sometimes when i ha planned on quitting due to some **** that happend in game. but then i would just sit there and think about all the friends i had made, and all the time we've spent together and i realize how much i would miss them if i were to quit.

plus playing a new character really helped boost my intrest level in the game again.

well it sure has been awhile for me. I've been gone too long. But FFXI is just too time consuming for me to play anymore. I used to be able to spend 6+ hours a day on it but now i have a full time job so there's no chance of me ever going back to FFXI. I'm stuck roaming from MMO to MMO never fully satisfied without my big gang of kitties. Looking back on all the memories I have playing FFXI, I often get very sad and really miss those days. Some poeple may think it's pathetic to get so attatched to a game so much, but it wasn't the game I was attatched to, it was the friends and family I made while playing the game. Yes I say family because my LS was one big happy family. Yes at times we had some squabbles but that will happen every once in awhile. I'd have to say those were the best times of my "online life" ever. and online life i pretty much mean my regular life lol, since i've been online since i was 10. :P I wish i could have stayed in touch with each and every friend I made in FFXI but not everyone enjoys forums or emailing sadly. I remember when I first started playing FFXI, I was pretty new to p2p online games, since I had only played Ragnarok Online as my first "major" mmorpg. I remmeber I met up with a bunch of really nice poeple and quickly formed a small lvling/questing group. Then one day I said in party chat, "I'm going to create a LS!" and everyone said "oh how neat, what are you going to name it?" and I said "KittyKatGang!" everyone looked at me kind of funny and laughed a little. It was ok though because they all joined it anyway and quickly formed a fast growing LS that later became a great LS. After being astablished as a LS, it was just fun hanging out with LS members, I could sit around and talk for hours without lvling or doing anything in the game. That's one thing I liked about FFXI, there were always people willing to sit around and chat wherever you were. Though I deeply miss those days, I have put the past behind me and I am looking to the future. I hope to create new fond memories still, and who knows maybe i'll meet some of you again in Fantasy Earth, SE's new MMORPG coming out this year. :D or perhaps in another game in the future.

Even though I quit ahwile ago I still will check back on here every once in awhile to see who all is left. ^^ may the great kitty goddess bless you all. =^.^=