Well after quite a bit of strong disagreement with my wife, she finally decided to try WoW out with me. For quite a while she was still very anti-WoW and played a lot of FFXI. She has now decided that FFXI indeed has ceased to be fun for her and was more like a job and her unwillingness to give it up was based partially on guilt and partially on potential separation anxiety from a character she's worked for 3 years on (3 75s with full relic on each as well as pretty much everything else pimp you can imagine).
So this month it will officially happen. She will be canceling her account. For the time that she still played FFXI she wanted my character for crafting and for all of the mules that we had (which were a downright necessity to keep up with all of the junk). So now my account also will officially be canceled.
I'm pretty sad as it feels like the actual nail in the coffin. There's always something in the back of my mind telling me I might want to play some more, but it has become too much work. I'm sad that I got full DRG AF (in one day mind you) and never put on a single piece of it.
I hope you all enjoy it. I'm not sure if it was something I encountered that drove me away from the game or perhaps the fact that SE ignored their playerbase for so long, or perhaps I just played it to its conclusion for me. I hope you can avoid whatever made me so cynical in the end and I hope SE continues to make the improvements they finally have started making.
I can honestly say though that when I get bored with WoW (it will inevitably happen one day) I hope I do not come back to FFXI.
