We absolutely, 100%, gave it our all. We braved the long log in queues, trying to log in as soon as we got home from work and waiting the two-three hours to play an hour or two before bed. When Darkpaw decided to vastly expand the number of people who could be logged in at once, we patiently waited the ten or fifteen minutes it would take to simply zone. Running to an experience zone could take awhile, but we did it. ...
Kasul and I spent a good few hours yesterday on our Mangler characters, getting ourselves and our computers ready for restarting on Aradune in a couple of weeks. It was classic EverQuest. In FFXIV, you could be kicked out of a group for not pressing enough buttons, fast enough. It’s a frenetic experience. If you’re not pressing a button, you are not contributing in FFXIV. I haven’t played WoW in a very long time, but one of the common complaints from WoW folks restarting on FFXIV is that the FFXIV button pushing isn’t as fast as they’re used to. ...
I saw my bf running around in Nektulos Forest yesterday on his baby cleric, and just had to join in. When the Aradune TLP server drops in a couple weeks (May 27, same day that astronauts launch from the US since Space Shuttle Atlantis made her final trip), Kasul is going to be playing a shaman (probably a troll) and I’m going to be a dark elf shadowknight. We’d already decided upon a shaman/SK combo, and Kasul was excited to find out that Reddit agreed with us. ...