Bismarck.Dreadnot said:
»So has everyone "gotten over" the whole end of FFXI news? The forums were so damned depressing for the past 24 hours after that announcement.
Still lingering sadness.
Too busy discussing a small video series involving a new character with a group of friends for it to really be a hindrance.
If anything I'm more interested to see how long this site goes on after the updates stop, and feeling a bit sad at the idea of possibly losing the chance to talk to people I've met here on a regular basis.
Facebook all the
thingspeople!
My facebook has always been very open for anyone wanting to add me. But not everyone is a facebook person, or even if they are they don't always wish to release such personal information to everyone.
Simply put, I have a strong feeling there are some who I'll cease to see because of this. Some may not even know that I actually enjoy reading their posts or talking to them, and that slightly saddens me.
But I'm also one of the guys who was crazy enough to travel down to Texas to meet people who before that I had only ever spoken to over a game. A guy who in 8 months time will be known as "Uncle Spath" to a child that is in no way related to me through blood or "family."
As awkward as I sometimes find it to say, this game was my life at one point and over the last few years it's become readily apparent how much it has influenced the person I am today and the company I keep. In a way I'm happy to know there won't be any worry of needing to return to it after this year, but at the same time... Vana'diel was a second home and all the adventures I had there are etched deeply into my being and I've spent the better part of the last day replaying scenes in my head of my time there. Events... Linkshells... Parties... times that I wonder if without the game and all the people I met in it... "Would I still be here?"