I think it's just that me and my wife took it a little too seriously and played a little too hardcore. In any other games I like a change of pace, but FFXI was our first MMO and one of her first games. We're super attached to our characters all these years later in an unnatural way. We blogged our day-to-day in FFXI.
Seriously, instead of picture of ourselves in our house, we actually have lots of pictures of our FFXI characters on special occasions like beating CoP and other big fight type stuff. For her birthday this year, my wife wanted a large collage frame full of pictures of us for her office.
Every other game, I couldn't care less about. I don't care about any of the max level characters I had in WoW. I think part of what made FFXI so electric is that you don't really have alts the same way. You can level all of your jobs on one character, so it fosters attachment.
So yeah, we pretty much have to hold over the legacy.
Currently Lala... But when we get the chance to re customize / change race... It'll be Male Mi'qote !
I've come to the realization that there are nothing but Mi'qote on the server. It's practically terrifying.
Yeah I might go with something else for my final character.
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Exactly my thoughts. It's why I'm making multiple characters now to see what I'm looking to do for my final.
Val's gonna be gutted.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
I dunno, for me, in the long run, you should pick what makes you happy without giving two craps about how many other people might have it. So long as you enjoy it, that's what matters. But I know some people get easily bugged by such things.
Still, with only five races, you're basically going to run into a lot of people who are the same as you over time. At least you'll be able to change your hair after a while?
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Five races, but 10 race/gender combinations.
Protip: Choose female roegadyn if you want to look unique. They don't look half bad if you just make the right choices, and then get used to her.
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I do like the way the female roegadyns look, so I was actually planning on changing my main to that. Big thing about seeing so many of one race is that it gets very old, very quickly and becomes less immersive and fun for me.
Personally, if I could make a character that looks like this, then I'd be a happy man.
I love my Roeg chicka, she's a giant badass who wrecks things.
I'm probably going to make one of my characters a female roeg.
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
Before reading all those comments I made a female Roegadyn giant gladiator on the beta to test it out and she is beautiful! She will be my first alt for sure.
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