Why did you start playing FFXI?

[Avidon]

My cousin and I were working on our FF10 files at the time when he found a website promoting the release of this game. He was interested, and I made fun of it, thinking it was a stupid idea. We both buy it months later. He hated it. I stuck to it, reminding myself that it's a FF game and that I must have faith in it, and that faith has rewarded me oh so nicely.

[MrWigglles]

I joined because I am not only addicted to Final Fantasy games, but b/c I needed an escape from the drama of real life for a short period of time.

You escaped real life drama and joined the FFXI drama. mmk.

I was dooped by Sony. Pre-ordered the ps2 hdd because Sony said it would have a Media player and a bunch of other features when it launched. By the time it launched all the extra features had been removed and it was just ffxi on the hdd. Played the free 30 day trial then canceled. Tried it again a few months later and stuck with it.

[Amerlyn]

You escaped real life drama and joined the FFXI drama. mmk.

Lol, yah. But at least with FFXI drama i can /ignore or just hit the power button. RL I have to find a corner and hope it doesn't find me. =p

[Gwynplaine]

I started because I wanted to make sure I played it through, as a FF completionist I guess. With single player console games you can always go back and just play it anytime years later. But with an MMO you know that some day you won't be able to have that chance. So I got into it to make sure I could experience the game while it lasted.

Also part of what interested me was how little I knew about it. FFXI got next to NO attention in any gaming magazine at the time (the internet was still building up). The only info I had was a single EGM review, and the weekly articles "Milkman" wrote in GMR. So I had to find out for myself.

[rog]

It was a final fantasy game.

[cidbahamut]

I spent a summer searching for a decent MMO and nothing really clicked for me until after I'd given up my search and a friend suggested we try FFXI. It was pretty out of the blue but I figured, sure, why not?

Nearly two years later I'm still here and my friend is long gone from Vana'diel.

[Niyah]

I love the whole genre of RPG's. I think I've played every RPG SquareEnix has made. And ever since FFVII, I just had to play every Final Fantasy game out there. So when FFXI came out, I just had to try it. All the storylines of the previous Final Fantasy series were just very interesting. FFXI became the only game I ever played. No more spending a crap load of money on buying new games because I finished them.

[Blaize]

I joined the game in May of 2006 in the hopes that one day an official forum would be created in which people would finally ask why you can't change your wyvern color. My hopes have been answered.

[Yashii]

Mm~ XI was actually a christmas present from my stepdad the first year him and mai mom were together.. (so.. its been like forever. >.>)~ I just started playing and was hooked from then on.

[Meyi]

My ex (we were going out at the time) wanted a game to play with me.

I've come to like the game.