What kept you here?

[Loony BoB]

Well originally I only joined, posted a few times, and left. But when Mandee took me along to '20 Minutes from Mills Day' and I met some of the other members, I felt comfortable so I started posting, and all that kept me around. I made friends, and that's why I stay.

I must look pretty damned cute when I sleep.

As for me... wow, I don't even know where to begin, so I'll begin at the most recent thing I read here, this thread. See princeofdarknez and Giga Guess' posts? Simple things like that. The fact that this place is a community and, while it's moderated by a great sexy group of people, we can all still have a laugh and make the odd comment and carry on. The moderation means that it doesn't end up looking like b, or something similar, but at the same time people can have good fun and make friends here. That's just one of the reasons, though. The real feel of a community.

Eyes on Each Other. This was where I started posting on a larger scale. The ability to talk about things like love and life with anyone and everyone was really nice. It still is, really, although I haven't been there too often. If I ever feel like getting to know someone, I always check if they have posts there. This is probably an emphasis on the first reason, but EoEO definitely deserves emphasis.

The Staff. Not just their rules and how well they run them - although God knows we do a good job and we put a hell of a lot of heart into EoFF - but more so that the Admins and Cid's Knights here are actually a part of the community. I go to so many boards where the moderators are only there to moderate or hang around with other moderators. Here, everyone can post about anything and anything. Even now, as an Admin (man that sounds weird), I come to EoFF first and foremost to talk with my friends and to meet new people. For the staff and the non-staff to just post as if they never had any seperation to begin with is great. I noticed this as a newbie, and, well, we all know I'm still a newbie.

Something in that last paragraph brings me to the next bit - people. Zaphier, fire of avalon, Evelia, David, Baloki, Citizen Bleys, Princess Usa, Rusty, Giga Guess, Rainecloud, Alixsar, Rinoabella, BM121, clout, Xander, and so many more. Everywhere, people that I can talk to either in thread or on chat programs. You can never, ever take away the fact that the most attractive thing about EoFF is by far the people who post here. I could go on forever about this with all the people I've met here, but I won't because I'd get bored. But yes, not just the people being here, but the ability to meet them and get to know them. I count hundreds of you as my friends, and that number can only increase.

Magic. So often people say that it's gone, but it's just a personal thing. The magic has never left this place for me. I love it. I live it. Almost literally! I work here, I've had four girlfriends here, I've had best friends join up to see what all the fuss is about. I've had a cousin, a sister and even my mum register and post here. And people here have changed my life. When I moved from NZ to Scotland (partly because of a now-ex-girlfriend... that I met at EoFF), the one thing that stayed the same in my life was EoFF. This place gives me stability and I know I can always rely on it. Well, so long as the server isn't down. I've been having a stressful time at work lately and I finally found the time today to really just kick back and post in all these threads, and I can well and truely say I feel the magic just as good as I did when I first joined. I love this place.

I can trust people here. Sometimes I have a very hard time and I know that I can log in and post my problems. If I want to do it on a more private scale, I just post it into the Staff Forum. The amount of trust I have particularly in the staff forums is immense. We might not know everything about each other's lives and we might not even all know each other's names, but the trust I have with my fellow Cid's Knights (and Cid) makes me proud to be a CK. As I was saying to someone just the other day, I'll always be a CK - I just have a different title and can do more now, but just being part of the group is something I love, and I love the people I work with. Ah, how sappy.

The colour scheme. It's so cool. I love the EoFF style. Always have. Particularly the forum colours and the label (the way 'Eyes on Final Fantasy' is displayed in the forum banner, the frontsite banner, etc).

The family. Because even though I've never met some of you I feel like you're all just one big part of my adopted family. Man, I'm really getting sappy now, I think I should stop.

[Giga Guess]

Heee...I'm a reason Loony Bob stays...*swoons*

[Jack]

The people. They keep me on two feet and not in a crematorium.

EoFF has more going for it.

[Baloki]

Its just like real life, no-one really knows the truth

Edit: Thats why I'm here, not that I think your all conspiricy theriosts although I know some of you are :P

[Xander]

Because it was such a friendly place compared to the forums I'd been at before, I made some friends and I enjoyed posting here so I kept coming back.

[SpiritWolf]

I kept coming back mainly because of the ff forums but then I discovered the other forums like the general disscusion one and then I was hooked. Plus it is just plain enjoyable to be here.

[Iceglow]

umm me, I guess it was the fact that I came here for one piece of information (ff7) but found I could help so many more in other forums with their games

[Misfit]

I keep coming back because I love the people here. And this was the first message board I ever joined

That + friends, YAY!

[Silmaril]

EoFF was the first forum I joined. I joined LOADS others but i stopped visiting after a few weeks. It's just so friendly.

[Rusty]

I have kept coming back, because of the friends I have made! You peoples are awesome And because this forum doesn't have to many Aussies, only a few, so I also stay to keep a bit of Australia here. And for everything about Final Fantasy...yep.