thistlechaser | WoW being down = homesick for FFXI! // West Wing

WoW has been down for 16 or so hours now, almost eight hours longer than intended, which has given me lots of time to do other stuff. Pick lint off the carpet, balance my checkbook from 1994, count cans of soup in my kitchen...

Among other things, I've been looking through my FFXI screenshots. It's easy to do, since I have a directory of many hundred of them still online. For the first time since I left, I actually have a positive feeling towards the game, a real homesick feeling. Literally! Looking at screenshots of my house was what did it, but the more I looked, the more things that made me smile. Besieged! Man, I remember waiting up until 3 or 4 AM on work nights waiting for them! Going to work late, having "lunch" last four hours so I could catch one...

I know when I was playing I didn't have fun, and I know if I went back now I'd still feel the same*, but... I sure did have a great moghouse. :)

*I don't like XPing, I don't enjoy doing missions or things like Dynamis (did I spell that right?), the idea of the level cap being raised makes me sob, and I sure as heck didn't need more gil, so, really no reason for me to go back. :/

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West Wing. I've been wanting to write about this show for a week, but it keeps never feeling like the right time. It's such a good show, I want to write the best post about it, but all I end up doing is going EEEEEEE IT'S SO GOOD EEEE, which doesn't make for a great post.

I'm near the end of the second season (five more seasons to go, thankfully!), and I don't think I've ever watched a better TV show. Every ep is amazing. Every character is amazing. This darned show can make me laugh and cry in the same hour! I mean seriously, laughing out loud and sobbing my eyes out!

If you're like me and somehow missed seeing it, GO FIND IT NOW. It's all-caps worthy! I'm dying to watch more, but I'm trying not to rush though it! I don't want it to end!

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When I'm all said and done with WoW, I doubt I'll have the same level of memories that I did with FFXI. I mean, I remember doing a garrison when I was like level 20 with no sub. Garrison... Ya... And I only did it once and that's all.

What's more, I STILL HAVE SCREENSHOTS FROM IT! (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060423155901a.jpg)

Plus I had huge goals in FFXI, goals that actually seemed to mean something (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060611211725a-1.jpg) in FFXI...

Even what seemed like the silliest little things (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060618165947a.jpg) seem to still hold meaning now.

Hell, there were friends I actually felt like protecting (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060621142223a.jpg) instead of some faceless, nameless, racist scrub I found in the LFD queue...

Maybe it was because I was younger and felt like I could do the impossible (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060704031451a.jpg)...

Maybe it was simply the atmosphere of the game (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel060716162816a.jpg), something which WoW seems to be lacking in WotLK...

Perhaps I just found so much more to have great fun with (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/WingsoftheGoddessBTTF.jpg) in XI...

In the end though, I suppose things do come to an end, but the best we can do is remember the times past (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/Vel061108160529a.jpg) and use them as a compass to the future...

Fuck it, I'm going back to tanking. Watch out WoW, it's go time!

Agreed on not having the same memories of WoW. They're just such different games... And man, the picture of you in AF... um, AF2 I think it is! (The last one.) I had forgotten how good that looked!

Nah, that's AF1.

You wouldn't catch Vel dead in PLD AF2.

Damn straight.

Ya that's AF1, I think that would have been taken shortly after I finally completed the set. Even still, I still love the design in XI.

I love your WotG movie poster! ;)

Heh thanks. Probably one of the best results I've gotten out of photoshop for random fun stuff...well, that and this (http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm132/Veloxe/CorsairCrunch.jpg) of course.

That one is also great!

All it takes for me to get on an FFXI kick is to ponder missions. Even the slightest information about missions is enough to make me want to reactivate.

I was talking with a friend that still plays yesterday, learned about the plot twist in WotG. It reminded me of two things.

I hate time travel, and I hate Shikarees.

Hating bronze dragons just doesn't have the same feeling, and I'm pretty sure I haven't replaced my hatred of Shikarees with anything in WoW yet.

See, me, on the other hand, I hated missions. Well, some of the TOAU ones were okay, but all the sneaking through aggro crap? Fights that required just the right grouping of jobs (remember how it took us something like 28 times to beat the damned last ToAU fight?). And I still hate the letters C-o-P with a burning hatred!

I don't think there's really anything at all I hate in WoW. I don't hate the Alliance, I don't hate... well, okay, there's the drop rate, but knowing that's 74857454730570431 times better than FFXI's makes me feel silly for hating it.

I still want a mix of the two games. So much of FFXI, yet all of WoW's not-annoying-ness.

CoP was so nerfed in the last update.

Level caps removed. I don't know how they changed all mobs, but I've heard there are now IT to 75 mobs in Promyvions off the mission paths.

Huh! Suppose the airship battle is much easier now!

If I had to show one thing that shows that I still have an attachment to FFXI, it would have to be the draenei MNK I had commissioned.

omg gil plz

(runs away!)

If it didn't cost money (above and beyond the monthly fee) to reactivate, I'd have logged on to give all my gil away. But the fact that SE charges money if you want to come back really annoys and insults me! Yet another reason not to return, I guess. :/

Huh, I didn't realize there was a reactivation fee. On the other hand, it's probably good to have extra insurance to keep you from returning. ;p

Not only do they charge you for reactivation, they charge you per character! How insane is that? I'm thankful for it though, like you said, it's insurance against me returning.

WoW being down = homesick for FFXI! // West Wing

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