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thistlechaserAnime: Man, how do I keep forgetting how amazing Bleach is? How in the world do I resist watching them the moment they finish downloading? So much story in every single ep! I swear, I spend half of each ep with my jaw hanging open. I caught up tonight (eh, I think, watched up to 60). Man, so good! Eeek! Need more!
FFXI: What to say, what to say... Today while at work I listened to the Jeuno holiday music and smiled and thought about how much I love the game. Tonight I sat in front of my screen and had to resist uninstalling it. I tell you, it takes some talent to make a game as frustrating and anti-fun as S-E sometimes does, and yet keep me coming back for more.
Holiday event tonight. Spent four hours staring at non-stop scrolling spam. Dealt with people too stupid to live and had to seek out more to deal with. And got zero for it. Other people walked in, spent a moment or two on the event, and finished it. Others spent 15 minutes. Others spent 30. I put more than four hours into it and got nothing. All because of "luck".
But the night's amusement was richer than that! I was seeking an XP party the whole time. Three hours, nothing. Then I changed my job to accept a card trade from someone, and got an invite. I wasn't on that job for 10 seconds before they invited me. (How? I thought there was more of a delay in updating search than that...) I laughed and laughed and laughed (or was it cried?).
So after spending the evening on the game and having nothing but stress and near-tears to show for it, I logged off and went to...
WoW: Ahhh, my escape. My vacation. A game that knows just how NOT to stress you and make things not-fun. Logged on, stood there... and got bored. I didn't want to XP (I could do that on FFXI as RDM if I wanted to solo), I sure as heck didn't want to farm. I did take a flight and that was wonderful, but other than that... nothing.
I logged off and checked my account and eek! The billing was happening on its own! I paid for a whole month of WoW when I was logged on less than three minutes! Heh. I suck, I should have checked it sooner. Fixed that! Now my account will expire on 1/1.
I wish there was a way to cross FFXI and WoW. The amazing graphics of FFXI, mix the music of both, a reasonable amount of challenge from FFXI but a lot of the fun and non-stress of WoW. Lose the airships and their wait-10-minutes-for-one and replace them with the amazing flying critters of WoW. Get rid of rental chocobos and bring in WoW's ownable riding beasties. Import a ton of solo-ability from WoW, but keep FFXI's AH system. Have more of the armor show, like in WoW! And in WoW doesn't HQ armor look different than NQ? FFXI needs that! Have way, way more variety in characters' appearances, as in WoW. And... well, I could go on and on. But it all comes down to one thing: I wish I could get a less stress-filled version of FFXI. Failing that, I wish I could figure out how FFXI keeps me eagerly coming back when I'm having zero fun on the game. Spending 20+ hours watching my mog spin as I wait for a party invite? Spend all night trying to do an event that other people get to complete in moments because of seemingly nothing other than luck? Why do I keep coming back for this crap? I really wish I knew.
FFXI: What to say, what to say... Today while at work I listened to the Jeuno holiday music and smiled and thought about how much I love the game. Tonight I sat in front of my screen and had to resist uninstalling it. I tell you, it takes some talent to make a game as frustrating and anti-fun as S-E sometimes does, and yet keep me coming back for more.
Holiday event tonight. Spent four hours staring at non-stop scrolling spam. Dealt with people too stupid to live and had to seek out more to deal with. And got zero for it. Other people walked in, spent a moment or two on the event, and finished it. Others spent 15 minutes. Others spent 30. I put more than four hours into it and got nothing. All because of "luck".
But the night's amusement was richer than that! I was seeking an XP party the whole time. Three hours, nothing. Then I changed my job to accept a card trade from someone, and got an invite. I wasn't on that job for 10 seconds before they invited me. (How? I thought there was more of a delay in updating search than that...) I laughed and laughed and laughed (or was it cried?).
So after spending the evening on the game and having nothing but stress and near-tears to show for it, I logged off and went to...
WoW: Ahhh, my escape. My vacation. A game that knows just how NOT to stress you and make things not-fun. Logged on, stood there... and got bored. I didn't want to XP (I could do that on FFXI as RDM if I wanted to solo), I sure as heck didn't want to farm. I did take a flight and that was wonderful, but other than that... nothing.
I logged off and checked my account and eek! The billing was happening on its own! I paid for a whole month of WoW when I was logged on less than three minutes! Heh. I suck, I should have checked it sooner. Fixed that! Now my account will expire on 1/1.
I wish there was a way to cross FFXI and WoW. The amazing graphics of FFXI, mix the music of both, a reasonable amount of challenge from FFXI but a lot of the fun and non-stress of WoW. Lose the airships and their wait-10-minutes-for-one and replace them with the amazing flying critters of WoW. Get rid of rental chocobos and bring in WoW's ownable riding beasties. Import a ton of solo-ability from WoW, but keep FFXI's AH system. Have more of the armor show, like in WoW! And in WoW doesn't HQ armor look different than NQ? FFXI needs that! Have way, way more variety in characters' appearances, as in WoW. And... well, I could go on and on. But it all comes down to one thing: I wish I could get a less stress-filled version of FFXI. Failing that, I wish I could figure out how FFXI keeps me eagerly coming back when I'm having zero fun on the game. Spending 20+ hours watching my mog spin as I wait for a party invite? Spend all night trying to do an event that other people get to complete in moments because of seemingly nothing other than luck? Why do I keep coming back for this crap? I really wish I knew.
