Hanging up the HatFollow

I don't think I can ever really see myself deleting my character or giving all my stuff away.

So I'm not.

The card I used to finance my FFXI subscription expires this month. I have already renewed the card, but I don't think I'll renew the subscription.

I have enjoyed my time on this game, but the "infinite well of entertainment" it used to provide has all but evaporated. Seeing as how I cannot play it on campus anyway, and at the time I'm home I can't get anything accomplished, I have nothing left on FFXI. Everything I must do now takes days or weeks of play time, and I simply don't have that.

It pains me to see the things I am leaving unfinished. I never experienced the thrill of a Sozu drop (go to hell you little ****) or the pleasure of Full AF2. However, I have grown. I now have a meager social life (not much, but something). I am exceeding well in college. My dreams are coming true, and I have made it through the rough parts I have had to face in my life.

It also hurts me to leave my friends. I would have quit the game long ago if I did not have so many good friends on the server, whom I played with from start to finish. However many of those friends have long since left the game. It is now my time to follow them.

So, I'm retiring at least for the time being. I am simply going to not renew my subscription. If SE has a mind-blowing alteration to the game before the 3-month period of my character limbo ends, I'll return. If not, then Shaolinz will fade away as one great and powerful memory.

I have had alot of fun here. I hope all of you guys will stay in touch. Just because I'm leaving the game doesn't mean I'm leaving the forums >_>.

It's been an honor.

How many times are you going to hang up this hat of yours?
Anyway, later bro. Take care of yourself.
See ya in about 2 weeks, when you realize that ya don't
wanna quit again...

The Treasures of Aht Urhgan website has been updated with all-new information, and the release date is April 18, 2006!

that good enough? :P

Actually, I'm very disappointed with the expansion. No problems have been fixed from what I can tell. All they've done is added new soon-to-be-gilsellered NMs, soon-to-be-biased quests and soon-to-be-gimp Jobs. In fairness, I am reading up on the expansion daily to see if any solutions are introduced to the game's current problems. I am being an opptomistic skeptic though.

Shao. =( Remember me? *hughug* Didn't think so, hehe. I stopped playing quite a few months ago.. heh. Glad to see you're finally coming with me, meh!? You should come play WoW with me sometime, all I do is PvP, it's so much fun. =) E-mail me sometime or something, I miss my Shaozerbaozermczaosternaoster. =D

How could I forget teh Sawwaz? Jeez I missed you where you been? I'm already way ahead of you on the WoW thing... level 26 rogue. It's great because it doesn't require alot of time to get things done (which is what I don't have alot of now).

Bar, I will read up on the expansion but I will not buy it unless something uber comes along. There are currently too many major economic problems in FFXI that really need to be addressed. It's good to keep things hard to get (like WoW) but not impossible (like FFXI).

No matter if you hate WoW or not, you have to admit that the economy is much better managed. The game has been out for one year now, and has probably deflated opposed to inflated. It's a very good thing.

Wish I coulda actually met you on the server Bar. Don't think I ever saw you outside of this forum. Today is the day my card expires and is the day I "officially" quit FFXI. There's always a year for redemption, but like I said... if no improvements are made, I won't be coming back.

I've not turned into a "FFXI must die" WoW member. I'm just playing WoW instead of FFXI now. It's alot more fun to me, plus it's also available to play on campus. I can log on for the 45 minutes I have between classes, level up once or do a random quest and go off to class. I couldn't do that on FFXI, which is mainly why I can no longer play.

FFXI creates a second life for you while WoW is just a game. That's basically why I've left.

Hehe glad ya didn't forget. =D I ran out of time too which is why I kinda left FFXI (was actually a composite of things, really).. WoW you can play for a few minutes and accomplish something, FFXI I would have to set aside a few hours.. and being in college I didn't really have that kind of time. Not smashing FFXI, because I did have a lot of fun with it and I made lots of great friends (THAT I MISS!! =(!!! ). I've been wanting to come back to FFXI just for my friends that I made, but I don't have the time.. And I also hear the economy has REALLY gone to hell. (BoPs and Bind on Equips in WoW kind of prevent huge economy influxes to a point.. making it so you have to run dungeons to get the gear you want).

Since I started playing WoW a few months back, in my off-time (and mostly during my month of winter vacation) I got my undead rogue to 60. >_>; I bet Shao made a night elf female, because it's all about the sexy, isn't it? ISN'T IT?! /dance.

And for the record, I'm not bashing anyone or anything. It's just preferences.

I miss all you guys! <3

I'm on mannoroth and I'm a night elf MALE sawwa! I'm only 26, but damn I love ninjaing things with rogue. We're so uber lol. We even use flash powder >_>

I'm not a man of many words so I'm going to keep it short and simple.

Best of luck buddy, hope you do well in life. I hope we've made positive influences on since we've known eachother and you've got my best wishes.

Yea, Horde > Alliance. Alliance can't work together worth a ****. But Night Elves just look uber.

Oh yea, and anyone that I know on this forum PM me with email or screen name so I can keep in touch with you.

Edited, Fri Feb 3 00:16:24 2006 by Shaolinz