Bleh, no edit so here goes another.
I could see the game, a few years from now, when it's dead possibly opening up as free-to-play with some ridiculously pay-to-win scheme. This'll be when the game is pretty much dead save for maybe a single servers worth of people. At that point though, they have to weigh the option of do they want to end the game with class and dignity, or milk it. Hard to say what they'd go with, people will remember this move in their future online games, and whether they were there for the end or not, will hold it against them, as they should. Another option, and the most likely, I see them shutting the game down and making the source public, this use to happen a lot with PC games. This would allow people to set up private servers, very good, stable ones. Personally I'd set-up a single-player like server out of the game and have a blast playing through it like a normal game.
I quit coming because I (correctly) thought that the idea of changing the website's name was incredibly stupid and would turn off a lot of the regulars. That coupled with the fact that I don't play ffxi anymore and never got into ffxiv ended my interest in this site. If all my friends stuck around the site, I would've at least stayed and posted here. Oh well.
Good to hear from ya Rappa.
Dark Knight. Forever.
Obviously this place lost its charm when I graduated from school, got a real job and couldn't play anymore.
Naw that was just FFXI in general. Back when I played seriously I had a pretty crappy job with not a lot of hours and when I finally got a different job it wasn't that much better which still allowed me time to play such a time dedicated game. Honestly if FFXI were to come out today there would be no way I'd ever have the time to sit down and actually accomplish anything in it, assuming it launched like it originally launched. (not with all the new added easy mode stuff it has now)
Lately I'm lucky just to be able to sit down and play a couple hours of Boarderlands 2 with my buddies at the end of the night. Even then I find myself staying up later than I should be.
Dark Knight. Forever.
Damn Westyle, you're talkin about the flameboard and I don't even get a mention? Lol @ you all having the same avatars for the last 10 years btw. Naked cheeto chicks and Bob Saget on a backdrop of clouds is burnt into my memory... XD And Myrrh the limecat up there.... no, I don't want your gimpy R2 during dynamis :P Fuck this place brings back a whole lot of memories. Too bad it's dead now..... ;(
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You would.
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LOL. You guys.
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