Character Name:Kerah

Played FFXI? Of course

Came from: Pandemonium then Asura

Years Played: Launch til Pande closed

How you found us? Google & Reddit

Other MMO's? WoW1.12 & 3.3.5 via Warmane

Main Job(s)? BLM was first 75 after nerf on my RNG60 I started THF but only took it to 45 for farming. After BLM I got NIN75 and was working on SMN66 when Pande server died. Lost a decades worth of friends and LS connections overnight which was the final straw for me*

Main Craft(s)? WW69 before RNG nerf then Alch60

Proudest Accomplishment(s)? Proud owner of 1 of 3 Spelunkers Hats on server. Took 3 years work to get!!!

Favorite Memories? Meeting Lilleo my first fellow friend with Narcolepsy, and countless other great friendships! I was also there when Simd / Elldarado broke Absolute Virture so bad that the game devs had to immediately patch fix "Walling" tactics lol! I also knew Wopa before he got big (get it? ;p)

Anything else? Actually I have been looking for someone named Kumru, the owner of my favorite guild BlueRats just in case anyone happens to know them or how to find them.

Also I brought my gf (tamtjabo) and bff (kurz) to play but they are BRAND NEW so Ill just have them add a comment under this thread instead of starting their own.

Edit: Preemptive Disclaimer: Kurz is a Galka and comes from "4chan culture" so please forgive anything he says.


*I never got a very convincing explanation why Pande was killed until I read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxi/comments/ ... nt/e1g0ozr

"The reason we scaled down our development team was to try to maintain operations for as long as possible; however, this minimized the number of changes happening to Vana’diel, leading to a conflict where it affected our adventurer’s motivation to continue. However, this has become a trigger for each of our staff to try and challenge new things. The development plans changed within the last two years, from focusing on maintenance of the game, to offering new features to our players."
My reading of what was said here is that they were in immediate danger of some on the board of directors (looking at you yoshi) wanting to shut the game down, so pro-actively lowered expenses. The goal being to increase profit margins to keep it sweet enough for them to keep it running without anymore complaints.
Kind of like factory workers who agree to no pay rises for a while in order for the share holders to be happy with profits margins and not sell off and leave them jobless.
I can't see any other reason they would do what they did in terms of reducing the development team size if the intention was to keep the game running "as long as possible", because less content runs contrary to that aim.



- I would summarize this best as "because profit" which IMO is the same reason FF founder Hinorubu Sakaguchi quit SE & FF just after XI released. I do not believe that timing is coincedental. This is also why I am so appreciative of Nasomi for capturing the best parts of FFXI before the corruption sakaguchi feared really set in. /EndRant

*waves* hello.