Wint wrote:
Get a wife, have a kid, buy a house, and try to go back to school half time while holding down a more than full time job. Then try to play FFXI on top of that. Then you'll be Wint
I used to play WAAAY too much. Then Aedyn was born and that all changed. Now, it bothers me if housework isn't done so I try to combine that with playing (like folding laundry while lfg). Usually though my Friday and Saturday nights are for FFXI.
Take out the wife, and insert the GF and you'll have Nuhn^^ LOL
I had been playing as much as humanly possible inbetween 2 jobs, school, and balancing RL, but as soon as my daughter Annah was born it just became so much less of an option to play as much.
I'm one who hates my house to be dirty as well, as my GF has 2 older children besides mine and they are little tornados(and she doesn't like to clean up after them >.>). But I found that just 5 minutes a day cleaning clears all that crap up, and I can get to my gameplay.
I get maybe an hour a day to play, and my only night to actually play comes on Thursday nights. But if I'm in a good enough mood to take the decrease in sleep I'll play for an extra hour or 2 after work, lol. But sometimes getting only 3-4 hours of sleep night after night kinda sucks, because alot of the times my daughter decides to wake up when I'm heading to bed after deciding to play that extra hour or so, so I get to be up for at least another hour. But it's worth it both for my daughter and for when I actually accomplish something IG in that hour or 2 I'm on, lol.
But to the OP, I've had RL friends that played this game though they only lasted for 2 months each and quit. But alot of my friends play alot of other video games, so when they give me crap about FFXI, I just turn around and give em crap about what they play. But if they give me crap about playing FFXI too much, I'll turn around and give em crap about partying too much, spending too much time watching TV etc. Basically everyone has that certian something they spend too much time on, so no one I have ever met has been totally innocent when it comes to vices. So I wouldn't let them get you down, because there's a 100% certianty that they spend too much time on something you consider a waste of time. But missing free food/beer such as a BBQ? Bad!....Bad boy! Missing free food/beer....shame on you! LOL j/k. I wouldn't miss free food/beer, but that's cuz I like getting free s**t, lol(after having a kid you'll appreciate free s**t, trust me^^).
But anyways, only you can decide what you spend your freetime doing. Don't let friends dictate what you do with it. If they don't like it, I'd say "That's too bad.", if they're your friends they'll let you have what freetime you decide you need to play FFXI since it
is your freetime. If they're not true friends then they won't hang around and you don't need them anyways if that's the way they choose to be, because like I said there's a 100% certianty that they have their own vices they waste their freetime on that you'd most likely consider a waste of time. So they shouldn't judge, unless they'd like to be judged. Besides it's not likely you'll be playing this game for the rest of your life, but then again at the rate SE is going you and I might be in our 60's or 70's before they retire this damned game to the annuls of online history. But then again you probably shouldn't be using all your freetime playing this game either, it just not healthy to be that obsesive. But idk...