As a few of you know i have decided to retire from FFXI. There are many reason i am quitting. Honestly most of it is just the game its self and not directed to any individual or group. Here is the list.

-Community-
It takes alot of community to keep an MMORPG going. FFXI has a unique community with people all around the world which presents a problem. Not only is it JP vs NA but its NA vs NA which is ridiculous. Not only that if you dont have a big time ls then your pretty much screwed. You cant really do anything accept exp and farm. After i was kicked from Hokuten i didnt really care. I just kept going. I figured id just get to 70 and apply to CKD and hope for the best. Well i still planned on doing this but the last few days i started thinking. So what am i going to do if i do get in CKD or any HNM ls for that matter. I discovered all i would do is spam provoke then auto attack for a little while and when you think of it that way it doesnt seem fun, hell your lying if you say it is. Not only that getting in a HNM ls is ridiculous imo. Put in an application and if theres one person who hates you, just one, your chances go way down. Im not gonna lie there are people in FS, Sentinels, CKD, and HK that totally hate me and frankly i dont give a flying fuck. Moving on, i joined Mordana not too long ago. I thought i may actually get an HNM ls cause it sounded like thats what Cap was aiming for. Then all that damn drama started and Rid took over. No offense to rid but Cap could have made that ls decent if not good. He had plans, he was recruiting, he wanted to do something. Then of course Rid took over and it went to shit. Rid spends all his time fishing or in CKD. IMO he had no damn buisness taking over a shell he cant even run. again no offense rid your still my friend but i need to get all this off my chest before i quit. So after all this was done i really wanted to get into CKD because people were leaving left and right. Soon there wasnt going to be anyone left. So i exp whored trying to make it. And 10k to 69 was when i relized im not happy, im not having fun, i dont want to do this anymore.

-JPN-
Well JPN are a big problem for NA imo. They get favor of SE and GMs most of the time. They are a year ahead giving them the monoply on most crafts ect and they bot and steal NMs from people. I personnaly think that NA and JP should have seperate servers. Im so damn tired of seeing JPonly. I mean seriously do these people think they shit gold.~

-Dragoon-
Yes im sure you knew this was coming. This pisses me off more then anything really. You wouldnt believe how many times ive been called gimped ect. and it really pisses me off when people who i havent ever played with say i suck. Most people ive pted with say im one of the best drgs on the server. May or may not be true but i think im pretty damn good. I really dont know what SE was thinking when they made drg. Really though i dont think drg is that gimped i think its most fucktards who believe everything they read on forums. Also i could have quit drg, hell i should have but i didnt feel like starting over. I had outrun all the noobs with my drg and i didnt want to deal with them again. I was going to go bst for awhile but really it can hardly do shit on HNMs ect. which is the only thing you really do as a high level. This is partly why i decided to quit.~

So guys i will miss you all. I know alot of you hate me and im sorry for w/e i did to make you hate me. I want to go without any hate. Also i will continue to post here time to time. If you ever want to talk to me, bltbranman on AIM and Xbox Live. Ill be playing alot of Halo 2 and EQ. On EQ im Tindiil of Stromm. Also if anyone wants to do BCNMs i have 200+ seals that i need to burn.

Alderan and Taragotan, thanks for standing by me and being the best online friends i ever had. You guys are the only reason i would consider staying. I really will miss you guys.

Ald, im really sorry for calling you a backstabber i know you wanted to do the so called "fun stuff" in this game. Your still the best in game friend i ever had.

Tara, i know i kept telling you not to quit and now i am. I feel bad....

So goodbye everyone, ill be in game selling stuff feel free to /t me. will miss you all~ /cry

I hate to see anyone leave the game. I never partied with you, but from what I could tell you were decent in the dynamis raids. I'm glad you got to experience that at least. Take care in whatever you do!

Yummy

Led who?

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COBRA KAI DOJO NEVER DIES
RIP Shiloh

later dude srry to see u go

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RNG/NIN║RNG/NIN(Future Goal)║NIN/WAR(Future Goal)

led, as much as i hate to see you go if your not haveing fun anymore theres no point in playing the game is for fun, fun and nothing more... its not for takeing sides, pissing each other off, or trying to show off.... its to have fun, the only things left in this game that are still fun to me are exping with freinds HNMs gods and dynamis... reagardless of what anyone thinks this game is not ment to cause stress, there is nothing more important in a MMORPG than fun, if something is keeping you from haveing fun... then stop it, again led... im sad to see you go and i'd try to talk you out of it but it seems you've made up your mind and i wish you the best of luck IRL

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Aldy™
Kicker of Ass™

Boy did i see this coming

I figured everyone on that ZM run we did was going to quit the next day.

and i would take you over a drk any day led

sorry to hear it led..

i know we've had some problems in the past, but...

{gil} {Can I have it?}

lol.. seriously man, good luck in whatever u do next

WTF, one less drg I can make fun of booo! Sorry to see you go bud, but this is after all just a game... you can't play it forever. See you in a couple weeks or in wow/eq2. ^~^y

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I fucking TOLD YOU that you'd never hit 70

Didn't we make a bet?

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Dark is banned from ever touching my computer again.

led! no! well.. actually.. i understand.. This game sucks sometimes.. I'll miss you. You were the first person on Hokuten who actually let me into the little group that is hokuten..*cough* When you got kicked.. it made me sad.. This game is full of backstabbing jerks.. But.. every once in awhile you come across the good people.. the ones you could trust with your life.. You were one of those people. Anyone who hates you.. never talked to you.. never got to know the real you. Of course.. it is a game.. and most people.. Don't get to know the REAL side of a person b/c.. that's just weird:P Anyway i put you on my aim list. Talk to you outside this stupid game.
<3 Keysa

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ya know whats funny is that even when hes quitting some ppl cant suck it up and just say goodbye, they have to throw in their belittling comments. IMO you dont like him, STFU and dont post... anyways i really didnt know ya well Led, but i wish you could have had more luck. i respect you for getting a job everyone mocks (even me from time to time) to 68. heh at least you got to use your spear^^ with the time you have left id say do your best to whore it to 75. reason why i say that is cuz once i hit 75 the game feels like less of a race i guess. i play other jobs out of leisure and actually suicide and lose xp if i forget warp scroll and such. as for HNM LS's, heh i dont have one and i still have a good time playing. LS isnt everything in this game. i hope you have fun in the time you have left in game. see you around and good luck.

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75WHM / 37SMN / 61BLM / 37RDM / 70BRD / 75NIN / 75RNG / 56THF / 37WAR / 37DRG http://www.myspace.com/dan_wyld

Xiona was that directed to me and/or Yarr?

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Dark is banned from ever touching my computer again.

good bye ledzeppelin

GOODBYE DUKE" BRUN IN HELL!" i knwo i will instanlty meet a drg with that same drg name....
I have alot of the same feeling you have led.. The main issue if i quit is that the game has a huge elitest feel to it which i hate. WoW seems alot more easy going and laid back with less clear cut items and such. Thats why i cant wait to test it out.

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why would i direct that to the Forum owner? you have a general hatred it seems for Led, which is a matter between you two. i would think that when someone put a goodbye post you wouldnt post your delight in their leaving. thats how it came across to me. if this post was you saying goodbye and led going "i knew youd never make it" id say the same thing. no point in filling a forum with feelings hate. ^^

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75WHM / 37SMN / 61BLM / 37RDM / 70BRD / 75NIN / 75RNG / 56THF / 37WAR / 37DRG http://www.myspace.com/dan_wyld

Mine is named "Duke"... Dont worry led Duke will live onn! /hurray

He made a bet with me. I'm just explaining Irony.

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Dark is banned from ever touching my computer again.

its ok yarr i know its your ego talking


Dinav, i wanted to leave and be at peace with everyone but you arent worth making peace with.

Ald and everyone else thank you for the kind words~

Calm it led it was just a joke yarr was saying.

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Except led is actually leaving and it's a big deal. "Led who?" isn't really funny, it's pretty disrespectful.


And as for Led, sucks to see that you're going to leave, us Drg's definitely had a hard time. Hope you had fun while it lasted! I remember partying with you way back when, have a nice life :D

The "who" comment was just a joke that people always did in DAoC. No matter who it was, when someone made a "goodbye" thread it was followed "Who?". I always found it funny.

btw, led, i think your reasoning for quitting is stupid and you need to stick it out to the end.

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RIP Shiloh

Led, I'm sorry that you feel that way about Mordana, but I hate to tell you that Capzero's vison wasn't going to work, or at least not for a very long time. He threatened to kick (And did take away their pearlsacks) anyone who was associated with another HNM linkshell.

So when presented with two choices an established HNM linkshell, or Capzero's aspiring HNM linkshell with a handful of people with sky access and even less with jobs that had beaten Maat, which would you choose?

Then 7 or 8 people 70+ in the linkshell would have left, anyway. (Ketrebu, Cyntari, Regnar, Kioko, Odysseus, Croucont and myself were all part of another HNM linkshell, or otherwise in the process of applying to one.

Either way, you'd still be here, whining about not being in an HNM linkshell. You have yet to really appreciate anything that people have done for you in this game, and usually end up offending those who had helped you.

If you want to leave, then leave, but don't blame the community for being the cause of it. In all my interactions with you, you've done nothing but alienate those from whom you seek help. And if you ask me, that's not a very positive contribution to the community, either.

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Led sorry if I made your FFXI life more difficult by making fun of you for being a drg. I am usually kidding with people and it is easy to say that you are missed by a good portion of Hokuten members.

Your are level 68, that is not a good level to quit at since you are well past the halfway point of xp and about to enter some of the most fun levels to xp at imo (70+). You have more high level content to explore and more people out there in the same situation as you. I know many people who are quitting right now. If your reason for quitting is that it is negatively affecting your RL then I would say fine.

But you are quitting due to changeable circumstances in game. I know you are a drg and feel shit upon by SE , but get over it and play another job or grind it out. If a few LSs and people fucked you over then screw them for doing so and you can find plenty of other people who will appreciate you as a LS member then. I don't know both sides to all your situations, but you don't need to get so worked up about something in a video game (it is a fucking GAME!) (easy for me to say)

Either way I am not here to flame you or kiss your ass but to wish you a good time RL and may you enjoy your future interests more than this.

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Eternus Ifrit Server Atariii LS member
75 BRD with a bunch of subjobs

led you dork!, you cant quit yet~! im kinda grounded from the game right now, soo um yea, dont delete your account or anything until i can play! i wana talk to you in game first!

but ill missya led, you hade many enemies, but yet many friends, mordana and xanadu were fun, and i looked forward to more insulting remarks torward my job combos, and the things i say.

but looks like it ends here~ it was great playing with you, and GL with your future.

tootles led, adios. sayanara, cherri'o, byebye, dewa nochihodo!

led, you really are one of the best dragoons on the server for your level

it may not mean much now that you've quit, but i do keep track of what happens to my old friends now that i've quit playing. I've gone through some of what you're going through right now and it really sucks. You finally realize that all of the work and effort you've put into this game doesn't mean anything and the job you've chosen is actually looked down upon by other people. It leaves a horrible feeling inside of you and you know you can't really change it. I realized this a bit before you did and i got out before it was too bad. It's the reason why i've chosen some of the ways i've gone in this game, and you know what i'm talking about.

whenever i scaned my friendlist periodically, i always was a bit happier to see your name on the list, knowing that you were going for it and hoping you would make it in the end. It was something i couldn't do, and i wasn't willing to do. Playing for hours and hours on end, making parties for exp/items and going to do them, really aren't worth it for drg in the end. Even if you did make it in CKD, and i may be wrong on this, but you wouldn't do jack shit anyways. I talked to Itto about it many times when i was depressed and he really showed me the light in a sense. He said i should get out while i still could. I told him about how much i wanted to get into ckd and how awesome it would be, and he told me that it really isn't that awesome. All the glory people think about CKD isn't all it's cut out to be. It's another linkshell, with other members, who just happen to be higher and can do the "fun" things of the game. THe game isn't worth it to spend 100 days of your life to get to 75, when you aren't having fun the whole time.

If you really do want to start having a bit of fun in the game, let me know and i might be able to let you in on some secrets of my life and hook you up. Send me a PM and we can talk about it a bit, or email if that's preferred. I was just like you two months ago, and i really felt like the game had no meaning, but ive found it again and it was well worth the wait. No offense to any of you on this site, but you need to be hooked up with the right people my friend.

Let me know and we can talk about it... btw, i mad you didn't mention me in your post [/i]

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Sometimes when i take off my pants, yarr stares at me

Is this ok?

Level 65 Dragoon
Rank 9 Sandoria
Woodworking 72.0 Fishing 55.7
Smithing 34.0 Leathercraft 28.4
Bonecraft 22.7 Cooking 11.0

Since when is not having fun a bad reason to quit.

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Ridere im sorry man but its just my opinion. You should have just let cap have it if you were just going to go to CKD. Again imo you should have just let him have it.

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Plasma i am quitting, i opened my EQ account yesterday. Ive got a month left on FFXI so PM w/e it is to have fun. Doubt your gonna change my mind and sorry i didnt mention you but ive known tara and ald forever. =/