Why did you start playing FFXI?

[Selzak]

I was heavy into SOCOM II on PS2 and bought the hard drive to access a map pack that required it. Looking back, that was one of the earliest map packs on a console and a huge waste of money (the PS2 HDD sold for $100...). When I preordered the HDD I grabbed a little pamphlet for it that included some information about FFXI, which was packaged with the HDD. I had played FFIX, FFVII, and FFX previously (FFIX was probably my favorite game of all time) so it piqued my interest. I was also just getting into the whole online gaming thing, and an MMO sounded really fascinating. Gave it a shot, and got hooked. I've been off and on (restarted completely several times), but here I am about seven years later.

[Joslyn]

played alot of EQ and UO but was getting tired of them, Am a huge FF geek so I thought I'd give it a try, Had to wait for a time till I got my own place and High speed internet before I could start.Been playing since 05 still only have 1 job right now maxed to the current level cap since its my favorite job but I am lvling others that I'm enjoying to play as.

[philmacraken]

I was heavy into SOCOM II on PS2 and bought the hard drive to access a map pack that required it. Looking back, that was one of the earliest map packs on a console and a huge waste of money (the PS2 HDD sold for $100...). When I preordered the HDD I grabbed a little pamphlet for it that included some information about FFXI, which was packaged with the HDD. I had played FFIX, FFVII, and FFX previously (FFIX was probably my favorite game of all time) so it piqued my interest. I was also just getting into the whole online gaming thing, and an MMO sounded really fascinating. Gave it a shot, and got hooked. I've been off and on (restarted completely several times), but here I am about seven years later.

i used to play socom 1 and 2 all the time also..i was a heavy poster on the sony forums and got a beta invite for ffxi...and since they gave you a copy of the game and the HDD for free for beta testing...i was hooked lol

[Etrigan]

I had been playing Anarchy Online and been getting bored with it, mainly because for some reason Ruby-Ka 1 always showed as down on my home connection, and thats where all my friends I had made played. FFXI came out and a group of friends and I all picked it up, somehow without world passes we all but 1 ended up on Fairy. We had the group all set, I wanted to be a paladin so I leveled warrior when I found out I could not start out as such (and to this day still have not really leveled paladin all that much). a white mage, a red mage, a black mage, a monk, and a second warrior who upon hitting 30 opened and solo leveled dark knight to catch up with us.

Even when my friends slowly dwindled off because of various reasons, two of which could not defeat Maat, I now am the last of the group to still play to this day!