Well, the time has come to step away from FFXIV.

I can't say I enjoyed this billed period...not because of the money...it's never about the money...but the decisions the dev team took really depreciated the game in so many ways it just became something generic..."Yet Another Fantasy XIV" or even "Not Really a Fantasy XIV" names would fit it much better than FFXIV.

Saddens me to think the one of the games I love the most will just be discarded and replaced with a generic MMO like 2.0. But that’s the thing…Tanaka is gone and with him any chance of seeing the original FFXIV return as a different game.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do about FFXIV…it has one of the characters that most appealed my til now…Lienn was able to reflect every single aspect I ever wanted in a character and I do miss her already.

Maybe I come back for summer event if they add cool stuff…maybe I give 2.0 a try…even tho I don’t like the current game and the info regarding 2.0 never really appealed me, I try to stay open-minded about FFXIV in honor of the great memories I built in it before patch 1.18. I can’t say I won’t miss the stamina gauge, the surplus, the physical level, area toggle, optimal level and favor systems, the older classes and all other removed features because I already do miss them.

Every time I log in my heart hurts because I know the game I’ll be entering is neither the one I wanted nor the one SE needed. Sometimes I wonder why this all happened…while they have guts to take risks and launch games like Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (hate this name, but applaud the attitude of trying new horizons), that can potentially have some very low sales, they had no guts to give the original FFXIV time to at least be finished. It had like 2 months of live and 1 big patch only before the dev team change. It wasn’t fair or even right regardless of the standpoint.

And now I see myself in the most unlikely situation…back to FFXI, trying to catch up the 3 years I was out while waiting the new expansion. I never ever thought this would happen…especially after seeing FFXIV surpassing FFXI in every single aspect other than amount of content.

Anyway…let’s see what happens. I really wish they added here something good enough to appeal me just for a change since all I liked was removed…because, for now, from the current game all I might miss is the access to the official forums.