So I've been really itching to play an MMO the last month or two and just haven't found one I wanted to play. I tried a lot of the free browser based ones and they just didn't do much for me and I didn't want to start WoW again because I'm still a little upset about being banned when I hadn't even logged in for a month or two and I didn't love it in the first place.
Then last week I saw a new program they're doing with FFXI where you can get old characters back! I thought this was great because I had always wanted to play FFXI again but I didn't want to start over and previous attempts to get my character weren't so good.
So I do their little application thing and all I see are mules and characters I created day one trying to get on a certain server. Major suck.
I talked to technical support and they said I was just unlucky I couldn't get my main character back and that right there put away all hopes of my ever returning to FFXI again. I told my old linkshell with a heavy heart that it looked like I really couldn't come back but one of them suggested trying to talk to one more person since I never really asked for a reason why I couldn't get those specific characters back.
I was fine with I'm just unlucky but I didn't have much better to do so I tried and got through to someone almost immedietly. He said the same thing-- I was just unlucky but there was the very off chance I could reactivate my content ID and that *might* get my characters back. The only hitch with that is that I would have to pay $12.95 (monthy charge) whether I get my character or not.
I debate a little while and decide, what the Hell, and tried it. To my complete overjoyment, I see my character! I click to log into the game and then starts the grueling 10 hour update (it is a seven year old game and I was playing off of original discs >_>).
A good 10 hours later I'm sucked back into the FFXI and I'm loving it!
I had thought the game was dying but it's still very much alive. It's not as full as it once was, but the noobs who don't really try and the RMT's are pretty much gone leaving the dedicated players.
So yeah, I'm sucked into FFXI again. -_-
