Re:A player's viewpoint (Score 1)

I cancelled my account for over a year, and everything was there when I came back. Sorry you didn't have the same luck. I will say that with WOW, you shouldn't care if you have to start over, because it doesn't take very long to get back to level 70, or even get multiple characters to level 70. If you lose your FFXI characters though, that could require an absurd amount of time to get back to where you were when you left. I had over 30 days played on my character, and still wasn't capped in any job or profession. I only had two jobs over level 40, and was level 64 in goldcrafting. FFXI is definitely a game that I wouldn't return to if my character was deleted.