That I'm not the overly credulous FF fanboy I once was. During the period I had pretty much forgotten about these forums entirely (oops!) I experienced the hype around XIII despite not being interested, played it to shut up the people who wanted me to give it a chance, and finally decided I was done with Square-Enix and the FF franchise.

Some posts indicate that I used to be able to play these games to death, like some posts I made in the FF1 subforum where I did a solo Fighter challenge, or tried to max out my Monk's damage output (turns out you can go over 9999 in DoS). Now I just play through and then leave it be; no grinding or stat boosting or item farming.