Why do you still play? : FFXI General Discussions - Page 2

Haha good reason to play lol.

wow they are actually updating this site. Its about damn time

You sound like a Recruiter.

I just got out of the military because I dont like people that have an ability to Fudge with your life. Nothing against you but we had a prior enlisted officer that SUCKED so it does not matter if you were a grunt before or not.

IF any had to go to any Military. PLEASE be smart enough to go as an officer. You get a degree that you will never use but the military wants and then join. Then you go in and if you pass the trainning you get to tell other what to do as an officer. As an officer you dont deal with allot of the stupid things in the military but I am sure their are still some things you will have to do.

In the Army enlisted are Meat shields plain and simple.

NAVY and Marines you are SH+IT.

Air Force you are a grunt but depends on the career PAPER Pushers are paper pusher you dont fall under grunt so SHUT UP.

Out of all Air force is the most easiest yes but you will have to do things that have nothing to do with your job. While the AF is the most family friendly. The AF does not care about Family.

Overall dont let anyone tell you military is this beautiful place because it is not. Some like it some dont.

I don't like or dislike it. But I am not going to sell it for you. If any wants to join the military do research.

Watch Jarhead Full, FULL Metal Jacket!

While in the military they can't hit you but they will make you do stupid things for training. Cleaning heads, the world of sand bags, you know all the fun stuff that no recruiter or officer tells you about. Going to the desert and train their but do nothing in regards to fighting. The few fights that you might see would not even happen if you were not thier in the 1st place.

Again if you want to join go right ahead but do yourself a Favor and research. AND PLEASE dont go to a recruiter drunk.

Don't get me wrong the military is good but it has bad points to it. So be aware of the decision you make!!

PS.
Magikbbg Sorry but you ask for it.
I still cant believe you said you have never had a boring moment in the military that is hilarious.

All members of the military know that thier policy is!
HURRY UP AND WAIT!!!

Back to topic!

I play because it is fun to a certain point. But the main reason is that i get to talk to others.

No i think I am just addicted to the game and can't stop or maybe I think I am because people dont stop complaining to me about it.

Somedays its very nice to play some days it sucks some days I want to quit some I lose hours of sleep over it.

I have no idea why I like or dislike the game. It is all very confusing.

Alex haha thanks for the nice long reply i havent been on this board in a few but yeah FFXI is addicitive and I still dont understand why I kept playing it back in the day. The only way i really quit was being banned. It's kinda sad I couldn't stop till It was taken from me like a baby.

anyways yeah Military isn't fun but hey we're not supposed to tell everyone what we do for training. Except the "fun" stuff haha. I remember when I joined my Cpt now Major told me that we get to do FUN stuff like rappel off walls, go campning in the woods, play paintball. Haha i was like um.. sure.

In fact I joined because I wanted to have better leadership skills and to stay physically active if not tortured so that I may learn what real pain is.

There are a lot of reasons I joined ROTC.
the main points being:
- So that I may live my younger days as a "man" which is was really stupid to do in my opinion. Nonetheless I am satisfied with waking up at 5:30am and going to "work" all day long.
- So that I can understand pain and anguish so I become more ecclectic in my understanding of how other people must live thier lives on a day to day basis. I felt if I can understand and bare this I can become stronger in my mind.
- To deserve my rights as an American, I know this is a little silly to those who have parents and grandparents from this country but I am the first generation in my family to be born in America. I always had this feeling that rights don't come free - I lived in NYC where I heard non-citizens complaining about our country, abusing their positions as people in America, lastly the fact that so many non-citizens abuse our government's money , please don't flame me for this, but it's a truth that many non-immigrants for whatever reason they came to America sometimes abuse their privilieges, I know personally 20-30 families in my neighborhood sending thier children to college for free because they don't pay taxes and their income is therefore "low" so that thier recieve benefits.
How is this fair? You and I and other hard working American's pay a ridiculous amount of money for taxes so that we can send non-tax paying temporary immigrants to go to school for free when I had to pay 120,000 for 4 years of school? Not to stray from my reasons of joining let me continue

- It's true that it's hard but the reason I never had a boring moment was that I feel as if everyday I am become a better leader. I study and train and hang out with my buddies and yeah it's not that boring but if you want to play FFXI or your playstation haha then yeah it becomes really boring.

Anyways I agree wit hyou Alex
Army is meat shield + clean up crew
Navy is ... honestly I don't even know why they do PT I think they are ridiculous they don't even know what they do. They are too widespread, air force, land force, amphibious force, sea force, I don't know what else they might be doing.
Marines the least to say are very hardcore and I have respect for them for working hard but I gotta say they must be the stupidest people in the military. Hurrah I failed my 1st grade english test.
AirForce, I don't know why they train either but they are very disiciplined. I always saw them training for marches in school and I thought that was just ridiculously awsome.
Coast Gaurd? I heard you just have to be a qualifed life gaurd in the YMCA to become approved. haha just kidding, I heard one taking a major crap in the bathroom once and I lost all respect somehow.

Yes it's so very very very true not to join as a Non-Commissioned Officer... you'll get your !@#$%^&* kicked around non-stop ... just for fun too by your commanders. If your going to go military please have some sensibility and either do ROTC, OCS (very, very, very intense 9 week course), or just get a job and don't whine about how its wrong to kill people even if it means saving/protecting our citizens.

Sorry for going all over your topic in no sensible order but:

Yeah there are total MORON's in the ROTC. They can't lead a pack of nerds to the computer lab even if they shot one of them. ROTC doesn't make good leaders I can agree to that.

Yeah watch Jarhed and full metal jacket ALSO - We were Men is a good one, as real as it gets or so I hear.

I'll be honest its not fun or boring - just a job right? like going to class. the pay is !@#$%^&*, the experience is priceless and the people you meet, well lets just say its interesting. (I meet a whole bunch of super racist people in my job).

Oh yeah I'm not recruting I'm just... well actually it did sound like it I apologize.

GO ARMY!

haha

Yeah when you are in the military after E-5 it is part of your job. To show a good image of Military and I am sure it applies to officers too. But I got out so I dont have to anymore. I dont think is bad either but like you said it is not cake or as pretty as recruiters make it seem.

I joined because I didnt know what to do and I needed to learn allot of things and the military will do that.

My overall experience in military was good and it has benefits since you will qualify for allot.

It a shame that like you said some people that are not citizens abuse what they have and want more than what they deserve. Bunch of greedy bastards if you ask me. I am Hispanic and I am ashamed at the idiots that did that BULL+SH+IT on May 1st. But its ok since May 2 FOX made them look like AS+S+HOLES. I just hope that most of the idiots that followed the Idiots leading the Idiots got fired.

You want to come to America because your counttry Sucks that is fine But follow the Laws at least. Do everything how is suppose to be done. Most of those people that complained on May 1st. Don't know how easy it is to get Us Citizenship all you have to do is file the paper work but most of them wont even do that.

I have to admit that I love what the goverment is doing as a result of May 1st. Since the only people to blame are the Idiots on MAY 1st. Go to Love it.

It's funny how so many other countries like Asia India and Middleeast. Have no problems getting citizenship. Only ones that have a hard time are Hispanics and they have themselves to blame. I know many women in my church that have been here allllllll thier lives and dont know how to speak english.

>.< I'll stop here. I am mad because I am Hispanic and because of those Idiots we are all Sterotyped as dum. I can't say anything about having allot of kids because that is true.

Endgame scene why i still play, its too addicting!!

Because the monkey in the closet tells me to....

????????????

Is their and end game scene

quick answer? friends lol. just wouldnt be fun without em. at home anyways

aha damn i havent been here ina while there's an endgame scene? lol not that I ever heard of.

Yeah military is treating me well just that... I guess you know if you were in it haha.

ugh 2 more years till I get rebranched I just wanna get the hell out of here.

i still play because it's self gratifing(sp). i believe it's also why most ppl play games ingeneral. with ffxi, it's so hard to get that rare/ex hi lvl item because other ppl want it and because you need loads of ppl to get it. But when you finally get it, a happy feeling comes to you and you want to tell the world that your the new owner of such item. I was like that when i got my yigit hands and i'll be like that again when i get my turban after this damn faf pops -.- but it's a since of happiness. the same happiness you get when you win a basketball game or get an A on a test or whatever you want to relate it to, it's all in feeling happy and self gratification(sp). thats why i play, that and the many friends i have..

We all know why we all play. We are addicted it is plain and simple. You dont believe. I dare you try to quit.

We will fight with family
Ignore friends
Ignore family
Play even if we dont want to.
Play to escape real life
Play when we are bore because their is nothing else to do
Ignore kids
Ignore God
Some get addicted to other parts the game offers
Make excuse
Defend ourselves

What is worst SE warns us everyday but we dont even Play attention to it.

A WORD TO OUR PLAYERS

Exploring Vana'diel is a thrilling experience.
During your time here, you will be able to talk, join,
and adventure with many other individuals in an experience
that is unique to online games.

That being said, we have no desire to see your real life
suffer as a consequence,
Don't forget your family, your friends, your school,
or your work.

Anyone that has played FF11 and has reached lvl 75 has forgetten about their real lifes.

I am trying to control myself by only paying 2hrs per day.

Does anyone have any idea how hard that is.

I still will tell anyone that I am not addicted to it and my friends in game can't believe that I am addicted because I play and have always played so much less time than them.


When I play allot I ask myself why do I play. I do nothing.

Ohhh ex/rare this and hnm that. Relic and all the other crap that has no meaning. To make it worst

I am a white with very bad gear. But guess what I can still heal and play better that most whites. Why?

Because I learned how to do my job with very little resources. How is it possible that I can keep a pty alive for 30 min against O hat NM. I let the other white that had 1200 mp, with a 20% + healing heal for less than 1 min and the whole party dies but me.

Why because that white didn't know what to do.

Yeah she was able to heal but she let the ninja get para and then lose haste. I saved him a couple of times but I finally got mad. I use Ben and the other Sh!t white does not.

I had whi/nin and that is why I was able to get the nm to zone but instead of the other white following or raising and training the nm to zone. Just waits until nm returns and kills them.

I play mainly because of the people in the game I could care less about the gear it offers. But I do know one day all these so called friends will leave and move on. Yeah they might still talk or write but in the long run they will do nothing for you.

One day I and everyone else will part the game and move to the next one or quit the MMORPG.

When that day comes I hope my real life and the ones a care for and Love will still be thier.

Anyone wonder why SE warns us.

Is not because they care.

They know the game is addicting and that people will suffer and experience hardship because of the game.

The reason they warn us and make you click yes everytime is so you can't sue them plain and simple.

They want money they don't want to lose it.


This is so at the end when we all stop playing and see the effects the game has had in our life we can't say anything since the only one to blame is ourselves.


Yes it's Your Fault and only yours!

But who cares as along as we do what we like and are happy. We cares about the others. They don't understand.

They just care about us and want to share more time with you.
They want you for who you are and not how well you play or your job.
They simply just want you to spend more time with them. Then you do with the game.


/cry

Why can't I see what others see in me.

Why do I still play.

Plain and simple because I can't stop.
I want to but somehow I always end up playing.
Only difference now is I have a little control over it.
I only play for about 2hrs per day most of the times less than that.

I just hope and pray I dont lose control again.