What to do with my account?

[Grizzlebeard]

Re: What to do with my account?

Well, my EQ characters are in limbo, I could never bring myself to delete Grizzlebeard after four years of living with the grouchy dwarf. As for my FFXI account, I previously quit due to frustration over European player numbers and lack of options at endgame. I then returned after an initial venture into WoW and within a few days I realised I'd made a mistake. I stripped all the items I could and gave them to friends then logged out one last time and deleted all my characters and cancelled the content ID. Not sure if I would have done this if S-E didn't have their three month deletion policy but as I was more than a little disgusted with them for a number of issues I decided I would be the one to delete my work not some auto-pruning program.

If you believe you may never return then deletion does offer a relatively final solution to all those nagging feelings of nostalgia. I won't make up some random percentage but I will say the majority of the people I've known who have returned to a MMoG once they've quit rarely stay longer than a few months before remembering the reasons why they left initially.

[Pai Pai Master]

Re: What to do with my account?

Fantasy Earth came and bombed. They're in the process of shutting down the servers now, I believe.

Hiromichi Tanaka is working on a new MMORPG for PlayStation 3 and Windows Vista.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What to do with my account?

Its the "hate to see it go to waste" mentality that often brings people back to an MMO. A while back a friend in my LS left the game, but gave the account to our leader and the leader's wife actively plays his character now, but after months of being out of the game, he's started logging in on that account again while she;s not on.

Seems he's mostly just there to say hello and stuff, still I wonder if he's gonna try to come back and that could be trouble. They pay for his account now and she's become attached to it.

When I left Everquest long ago, I made the mistake of passing on my account to another guild member. I needed to quit, I was genuinely addicted and had only come to accept it when I saw another in-game friend wrecking relationships both in-game and in RL to keep playing. She was out of a job in RL, didn't defend her friends - even her boyfriend - when our leader would kick them from the guild on a whim. I just didn't get it. Sad thing was I passed on my account to someone who was sweet on the girl and my account... was passed on as a token of affection to her.

I should have just deleted it.

[Raydeus]

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Heh, I couldn't lose my account info if I wanted to, it's burned into my head. Kinda sad, I know my POL user ID and pass, but I don't have a clue what my own SS# is.

So sad, but I'm the same. I don't think I'll ever forget my POL ID and password, but I sure will forget about important info like my SS number or my bank account number.

Fantasy Earth came and bombed. They're in the process of shutting down the servers now, I believe.

Hiromichi Tanaka is working on a new MMORPG for PlayStation 3 and Windows Vista.

What was that game about, was it for Playonline too?

The only other PlayOnline game I've seen from SE is Front Mission but that game seems to be kinda like BF, or that weird table game I don't even know it's name (not Tetramaster).


Edit > I found some pics of Fantasy Earth, for PC right? I looks a lot like guild wars, was the gameplay something like that?

[Aeni]

Re: What to do with my account?

What was that game about, was it for Playonline too?

The only other PlayOnline game I've seen from SE is Front Mission but that game seems to be kinda like BF, or that weird table game I don't even know it's name (not Tetramaster).


Edit > I found some pics of Fantasy Earth, for PC right? I looks a lot like guild wars, was the gameplay something like that?

There's a lot of games you can get through POL. Fantasy Earth, Front Mission Online, Dirge of Cerberus (Don't ask ... you can actually select this title to play, just need it installed to actually get it to load) a strategy game and of course, everyone's favorite (sarcasm) card game from FFIX...

Also, it's only available for the Japanese. There's NOTHING - I mean NOTHING - for anyone outside of Japan for POL besides the two I mentioned already. In other words, don't listen to someone who's saying to not delete POL ID because, in reality, there's no need to keep it outside of what little we have.

I envision POL to be killed off if the numbers start to decline (From rumors I've heard, even FMO's popluations is whittling away and drying out due to lack of interest)

[Macht]

Re: What to do with my account?

There's a lot of games you can get through POL. Fantasy Earth, Front Mission Online, Dirge of Cerberus (Don't ask ... you can actually select this title to play, just need it installed to actually get it to load) a strategy game and of course, everyone's favorite (sarcasm) card game from FFIX...
Also, it's only available for the Japanese. There's NOTHING - I mean NOTHING - for anyone outside of Japan for POL besides the two I mentioned already. In other words, don't listen to someone who's saying to not delete POL ID because, in reality, there's no need to keep it outside of what little we have.
I envision POL to be killed off if the numbers start to decline (From rumors I've heard, even FMO's popluations is whittling away and drying out due to lack of interest)

Very certain you can guess future events huh? There's a word for that, and I don't mean ESP.

Considering that the POL ID costs you nothing I see no reason to take as insaine an action as to delete it. I would just keep the POL ID if nothing changes and it happens to dissolve away on it's own then there's no problem. If you do delete it and then something you wanted to play ends up on it then you'll be wasting time and possibly more money depending on how the company does it (Personally could easily see a company offering a cheaper version of the game for those with a POL ID already and then charging more for those who don't, called loyalty benefits).

Since the POL ID doesn't cost you anything I would just keep it.

[Feba]

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Anyway, when you do quit, what game (if any) are you going to? What are your plans to do with all this massive amount of extra time you will soon have?

ha, that's actually one of the reasons i'm leaving FFXI is the time it takes;
but if you're curious i'm going to Eve Online. If you want to try it, they have a free 14 day trial, just google "Eve online 14 day" or something similar. My character there is named Enotz; if you do try it, send an eve-mail to my character and i'll help you ^^

I know people that "lent" their accounts to others and then want to come back but have been told, "Too bad, its mine now."

Well, the friends i've considered giving it to wouldn't have any use for it anyway, but I know they wouldn't do that; mainly because they already have my account info.

[Suteru]

Re: What to do with my account?

If I were you I wouldn't toss any rare/ex stuff in case you wanted to come back for a bit, if even just to chat on LS

[Khevn]

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I can't bring myself delete my good friend Khevn, I feel like I'd be throwing a good friend away... Sigh, poor old, khevn. Don't worry PLD's will have there day agian haha

[ifandbut]

Re: What to do with my account?

but if you're curious i'm going to Eve Online. If you want to try it, they have a free 14 day trial, just google "Eve online 14 day" or something similar. My character there is named Enotz; if you do try it, send an eve-mail to my character and i'll help you ^^

Yay, another EvE convert ><
I'll have to contact you when I start playing EvE again, too busy with FFXII atm.

I to have concidered quiting the game and I would proubly let my friend who allready has my content ID just take over paying for the game (I'v actualy done the same with his WoW account).

[Feba]

Re: What to do with my account?

I'm not so much 'converting' from ffxi to eve; so much as i'm leaving ffxi. Eve is just what I happened to pick up. I'm not leaving ffxi so I have time to play eve, if anything it's closer to i'm playing eve to fill the gaping hole of addiction :p

If anyone's curious; I just gave away all my valuable items to friends (including an 11THF noob I met that day), and sold everything else for 1G each. Might not leave much for myself to appreciate from teh experience except memories, but at least I know I made a few people happy.

[Kitalrez]

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I decided to quit recently after replying to this thread, too. I don't have a whole lot of time to play anymore, and I find myself generally annoyed with most of my server, whether I've met them personally or not.

Snarkiness aside, I've decided to go out by giving my server a gift. I'm converting everything I own into gil, selling on Jeuno's AH for the highest prices possible. I figure I should net about a good 12-14 million. I plan to take all of that gil with me to the grave. I'd advise anyone else quitting the game to do something similar with any of their gear that isn't going to friends. Best thing you can do to help combat RMT and inflation on your server is pull a whole crapload of gil out of circulation when you go.

[Feba]

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eh...12-14m is more than I own, sadly; not to mention all the Gil you could fit on one character wouldn't make much of a difference. You'd have to take out an entire account worth of gil to make a noticible impact.

[Kitalrez]

Re: What to do with my account?

Someone once said: "The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step." I prefer to think of it more as: "Every good landslide starts with a single falling rock."

[FranckKnight]

Re: What to do with my account?

There's always the option of finding someone to take the account and characters. Some people like having a second account for various reasons, like having mules on a different account is easier to transfer gear over as you can do it over the two computers instead of using the mog mail.

Its just an idea, as preferably you'll want to give it to someone on your server in this case. I'm myself somewhat looking into finding an account on my server like that, a character that would have a bit done, instead of starting from scratch.

That is if you're sure you're not coming back, else you'll want to simply cancel the content IDs so you don't have to pay, and maybe someday you'll come back. If you do so, its possible characters won't be deleted if you didn't delete them yourself.