Character Name: Dearie Played FFXI? Yes! Came from: Fenrir Years Played: 2003-2009 How you found us? QQ Group Chat (in case you do not know, it is the Chinese Version of Windows Messenger) Other MMO's? Final Fantasy XIV also.
Like I said, I am a player from China, and Final Fantasy XI was the game I played when I was in college back the days when I studied back in the States. Back then I was a timid yonng student from a foreign country, who had little knowledge about how the life would be in the States. You know back then my college Dome had a wierd tendency for putting international student together, so we got the wierdest group ever: Daniel C. from Columbia, Daniel T. from Indonesia, Brandon P. from the States, and me from China. I could hardly communicate with the other kids, till I found we all shared the same love: video games, especially Final Fantasy Series. So the four of us started XI at the same time, and through my whole college career, this is the thing linked us together. Although we never been in any Endgame LS, nor ever fought HNMs, not even Dynamics back to the day, we still had whole lot of fun, and this game is much more to me than just a mere game. It was my youth, my social link, and my remembrance (that was our LS btw) of my friendship. I went back to China at the year of 2009, after 10 years, now I am a father of two kids. When I got a little spared time in my life finally this year, I missed this game so much. I tried the retail version first, and found it was very unfriendly for a people from China. First it is not very easy to obtain a CD-key for a player from China, after all this is a very old game. And most importantly, SE locked the IP from China - I guess most of you didn't know, on the purchase webpage of SE, if the brower detected your IP is from China, it would show "Pending" and "Server Maintainess" and never proceed. I have no idea why, but it makes me give up on the retail version soon after I found out this fact. I was thankful that afterward I found Nasomi. Although at first the people told me Nasomi is simply because it is free. However, when I logged in, I know this is exactly what I had been looking for. It was just like the old days, people play together and help each other and enjoy this game, and I can directly register and play with a Chinese IP. For this, thank you Nasomi. Unfortunately I have been in the torrent of the recent Chinese RMT events. Not because I am a RMT - I just a lowly lv27 WHM who struggle to even save money to buy maps, just simply becuase I am a Chinese and use a Chinese IP to play. I cannot use search function, nor use the AH, but that is OK, if this is the measure it would take to get rid the RMTs, I think this is fine. I will use a payed VPN,and so far I can still play normally and still enjoy this game. That is the little price I have to pay, and I am willing to pay it. Because I hate the RMTs like most of the people here, I still remember what they did back then when I was playing the retail version. What makes me really unhappy is when I checked this forum earlier today, a message appeared: "You have been permanetly banned from this board. Please contact the Board Administrator for more information. A ban has been issued on your IP Address." Firstly I was shocked, then I felt, frankly, disgusted by this act. I have been judged as a criminal, simply just because where I am from. Mr. Nasomi, I am not asking you for fixing the search function or AH,after all a paid VPN could solve the problem, and for people who really love this game (and also probably for people who really want to make money in this server), it would not be a problem. I just beg you please don't judge a person as a crimical just simply based on where they are from. I post here today as a newcomer to Nasomi. I just hope people in this game please don't treat me as a RMT just simply because where I am from. Also I hope people here can tolerate me for use a VPN to play this game, so far I found this is the only way I can get this game to work. Thank you.
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