You Can't Save the Spider *and* the Butterfly

• Log into my Square-Enix account for the first time in years to activate my beta codes.
• See option to link old PlayOnline ID to my S-E account.
• Do so.
• Discover that my old character (who’s probably within 500 exp of getting her advanced jobs) is still in storage and available for reactivation.
• Strongly consider registering a credit card and just redownloading everything from FFXI.
• Remember sadly that it’s not the same game that it was before.
• Cry.
• Go back to getting the FFXIV Realm Reborn beta downloading.

I keep seeing all sorts of outfits for Lightning Returns and seriously, guys, I’d better not have any PSN cards when that game comes out because I did the math on how much I would have spent on XIII-2’s outfits if I had just bought without thinking and it was like $100. I want ALL the outfits in both games and that’s bad for my wallet so when I get the game just like, digitally slap me on the wrist or something if I start to say anything about DLC.

Haha the two-codes thing for FFXIV Realm Reborn is two codes required for one activation, but Brian got an email too (because he was in the original beta for the original game) so he’s already resigned himself to downloading and playing it this weekend. (Assuming the beta’s live already? No date’s included in the email I got.)

Just got the new FFXIV Realm Reborn beta code(s? it looks like one for PC and one for PS3) for downloading some video off the Playstation Store. Guess I know what I’ll be doing for a little while (and if it is two codes, what Brian’s going to be subjected to doing as well, even though he didn’t like the first version of the game).

^_^

I’ve been kind of wanting to try again to play FFXII since the concert last Friday (Kiss Me Goodbye was one of the songs on the list, and Susan Calloway nailed it) but I hate the start of the game and I’ve never been able to finish because I always end up taking hunts that basically trap me in an area where I can’t move forward, can’t complete the hunt, and can’t find good enough enemies to level up on. So…. two or three times now, I’ve ragequit the game. But I really like the not-beginning (I don’t know how far I really got, maybe two hours after Fran first rages out from the Mist? The order of events is kind of blurry because I kept doing hunts when possible instead.)

Basically, do I take a chance on ruining my day by hooking up the PS2 and getting frustrated with the early parts of the game, or do I just go watch a bunch of AMVs of Kiss Me Goodbye?