Well, Rogers, you win. Your bandwidth limits have taken away my flash games, but admittedly I don’t really mind. Your bandwidth limits have taken away my torrenting, which is annoying, but I’ll find a way. Just you wait.

        But this is the final cruelty. This is the one that hurts.

        With bandwidth limits, I can no longer afford to have 12 characters in Dragon Tavern.

        Or maybe I could. But they’re already gone. It’ll save me time anyway. I kept my original two, but the extra ten that I’ve been working on since the middle of april (almost five months o.0) had to go. Admittedly, the amount of time it took to use all my daily action points was keeping me from playing the game on a regular basis, but I’d managed to get them all up to level 35, only 20 away from becoming Immortals, which was why I created them in the first place. I wanted to see what all of the different paths had to offer. At the same time. Turns out, all I’d really get is a couple of cool paragraphs, but five months ago I figured, what the hell, it’ll be awesome.

        I was a little sad when I started writing this, but the more I think about it, the more this comes back to me wanting to spend my time on things I actually like. No more grinding for hours in the hopes of having fun later. No more practising some dumb minigame just so I can unlock some ultimate weapon or whatever. Just play the damn content and enjoy it, or get it over with. If it’s absolutely horrible, quit and stop wasting my damn time. As Vael put it, if the chase is fun, who cares about the catch? Only I’ve come to realize there are a million chases, and hardly ever is the catch a sufficient reward. Five hours for a thirty second victory scene, and an item that only has value as long as I continue to play the same game I’ve been playing for a week straight? Even spending twenty minutes searching for treasure in the final dungeon seems silly, when you realize that the items you’ll find are no good to you when you take down the final boss. Even if there’s a New Game+ option or something, you probably already have all the good stuff before you get there.

        So now I’m going to go play FF X-2 because I have so much fun with its class system and battle system. If something else grabs my fancy I’ll play that, but if not, I may replay FF IX and just enjoy myself.

        And I’m not even going to worry about whether I’ve missed a 0.3% completion rate cutscene, because I can just watch the perfect ending on youtube if I miss some dumb conversation you can never access again.

        Why the hell would I press X in the middle of a cutscene? Don’t you know that pressing buttons during cutscenes tends to lead to a “skip scene” feature? Screw whoever thought to assign completion percentage to such arbitrary and entirely forgettable stuff.