I started playing FFXI in mid-2004. In 2010 I got bored and disgusted with the deliberately slow rollout of Abyssea content and level limit bumps, and felt slighted by the devaluation of the Promathia achievements we had struggled so hard for. And at the same time I felt like the release of FFXIV meant FFXI was in its twilight, and that with my obsessive-compulsive-leaning psych profile, that perhaps MMOs in general needed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing for me. (Obviously the FFXIV part turned out to be mistaken, but the principle remains.)
Meanwhile, the integral monitor died on the old Dell Dimension 9200 lappy I had repurposed as my FFXI platform, and the GPU on my newer one was never up to snuff for FFXI. So with no playable platform, and no real interest in keeping up with FFXI's deliberately snail-paced content-release schedule, I handed off Vaprak of Valefor to Danielle in mid-2011.
But I never got around to actually uninstalling the FFXI client software, even though it's nigh unplayable. (I could probably craft and trade some still, but that's not enough to keep me in.)
So today I'm deleting old installers and uninstalling software I don't use, and FFXI is one of the softwares getting the axe. At least until I hit the lottery and can afford to be a mouse potato forever. Vaprak is also getting defunded, although I can probably re-up him if I ever really feel the urge.
Backups:
Danielle set me up with some space on her network storage appliance, so what's left in the software library is getting backed-up there. And I got a 64GB thumb drive amongst my Xmas goodies, so that will obsolete my DVD-RAM-based backup system and deprecate my larger powered external drive to full library backups. Glad I didn't jump on the rewritable blu-ray bandwagon.