I spend like the entire month trying to come up with something smart to say either anniversary but I don't know if I really got much so here's something kinda dumb one day too late instead.
Both games were a substantial part of my formative years but also both games have varying degrees of not holding up particularly well- FFXI was a product of the pre-WoW era where the MMO was mainly about coasting on the novelty of the premise with any attempt at being a good video game being an afterthought at best (but also it has some of the most under-appreciated narratives in FF history hanging out in its various expansion packs), while Morrowind was... well, a Bethesda game, and I still feel like a dupe for ever thinking Bethesda games had any merit.

I wish that Vana'diel had some way of getting some sort of new lease on life, you know? It's so full of cool places and characters and stories... but the actual playing of the video game nigh-impossible to do to someone who wasn't already there back in the 2000's.

Pay me no mind, like I said I tried to think of something smart but nothing came so it had to be something dumb instead.