Final Fantasy XIV

I managed to hang this in my newly purchased FC House in the Goblet. Housing in FF14 has always been a sensitive topic.  I was the lucky few, who managed to transfer out of the NA server into a Japanese server just before the release of the 2nd batch of Residential Plots. What I had on me was just over 4mil GIL.   The game was still a work in progress and GIL was hard to earn unless your crafters were like penta-melded in terms of gear.  Mine wasn't, still isn't because I believe that money must be made bit by bit from many sources.  That's how my real life is, and thats how I'm comfortable playing the game. Luck was on my side and I managed to blow all my GIL on a small plot.  Unfortunately, my FC was not ranked high enough to purchase the land so I had to contend with the SMALL plot being a private house.  It wasn't what I wanted but we don't always get things the way we want - FOR REAL and in VIRTUAL REALITY. Since then, and purchase of many gl...

I was never into the world of MMORPG i.e. Massive MultiPlayer Online Role Playing Game.  I could not understand how people could spend hours chatting with fellow gamers in-game and doing raids, dungeons, trials or just farming - Farming also means farming people, not just mining and harvesting. The first MMORPG I dabbled with was Fiesta.  It was free to play, so there was no 'investment' factor i.e. no monthly subscriptions....just download and log in.  Perhaps for a first post, I shall talk about the differences between FTP and PTP. FREE TO PLAY (FTP) This means exactly that.  Just download the content, create a character and log-in. The only catch is, the entire gaming experience depends very much on whether one is prepared to just play with the bare minimum. MMOs have raids i.e. dungeons where a group of gamers run through to get loot, namely gear and weapons being the main items people do this for. The competition in any MMO in-game is tight and every...