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Posted: Nov 2nd 2007 12:31PM (Unverified) said

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The actual purpose for this is straightforward. With most modern MMOs, if you cancel your account, your characters are not deleted from the server. But when FFXI first came out, this was not the case. Canceling your account killed your characters, for good.
Since then, FFXI has changed significantly, including allowing your characters to stay put if you cancel your account temporarily... a common practice in such a brutal and difficult MMO environment. But the old characters remained deleted.
What Square is offering is for players to resurrect the characters that had been deleted for those players who want to return, but are still upset (many years later) that their original efforts had gone to waste. As far off as it sounds, the world of FFXI has been known to be addicting, even with its extremely punishing gameplay, so this is a good move on Square's part.

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