10 years ago I was . . .

Ten years ago I was playing WoW, and had never heard of Final Fantasy. Came here when highest level was 60 or 70 (Don't recall).

ive played since xiv 1.0 closed beta so i was probably doing something in ARR as i started ARR in beta 2 due to being legacy

Doing ARR's main scenario somewhere around level 20ish as I recall. I'm Legacy member and started FFXIV in 1.0, as well as ARR in Alpha and Beta Phase 1, and so begun ARR properly in phase 4, meaning I had a head start when the game finally went fully live. It's amazing how far the game has come in the ten years since. :D

In the military. I had finished basic training and moved out to my first command. I guess I had a WoW account, but I was too busy to play many games.

It was on my first ship, in 2014-ish, that one of the guys introduced me to FFXIV. I'd heard about the 1.X flop, but little else, and he got me to try it. It was 2.3 (the patch before NIN being released), and I got to 50 from a 7 NIN + my WHM party FATE train in Northern Than on a Saturday afternoon, with my friend pointing me to Crystal Tower after I hit 50 with the promise of a new 24 man about to relese.

10 years...been a long time. Back in the civilian world for a couple now and still loving life and FFXIV. o/

I think I was probably playing SWTOR? That was my big MMO at the time I think. Bit of WoW here and then too, though I had not been as big a player as I once was in Azeroth.

I had tried the beta, but at the time my laptop could not really handel it haha. It was not long until I did finally step into Eorzea though...

I was here playing FFXIV and still playing FFXI. Before FFXIV I was playing Aion and FFXI.

Reading rumours about it coming to console so planning on that and... playing gta online with friends.

10 years ago i was knowing my now exgf
playing dota, half life 2 and a bunch of other games on steam like Tera Online (RIP) or Lord of the Rings online.
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I really miss the atmosphere of this game. The combat was the best one.

I was here as was in closed Alpha test in 2010 so stuck around. Have been here ever since.

Playing this badly. Didn't grasp rotational gameplay where you use every skill against every enemy, was still in an old-school mindset where you find which situational skills work best against certain enemy types. If somebody told me to use a certain skill, I took that to mean spam only that button for the rest of the encounter.

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Originally Posted by EZGIL

Alot of us were not here for FF14's launch day. Some of our journey's took longer to get here.

10 years ago on this very hour I was. .

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somewhere in Pandaria. Probably farming Timeless Isle or waiting for a Siege of Orgrimmar group to form.

Where were you at ?

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Taking my second degree in computer science.
MMO-side, wow, ffxiv and lotro accounts were active, and MoP was a great expansion, but I did not like timeless island (except the weekly bosses).

Looking back at my achievements, I had finished the MSQ and ran Praetorium for the first time on this day 10 years ago.

playing Battlefield 4.

FFXIV only came out in April 2014 on the PS4.

... 10 years younger, but still older than I want to be.

It's nice to see some praise for MoP. I remember how dubious people where about WoW trying to copy ‘Kung Fu Panda’ and all that, but it turned out to be my fav expansion. What I loved most about it was that it decided to explore new lore. The expansions before it always fell into "Oh remember this person/place from the old games? Well now they are back!" but this time we got a whole new continent and lore to explore that had, prior to then, just been hinted at with a ‘joke’ character from an old game. Plus I just loved the music and scenery.

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Originally Posted by Hurlstone

It's nice to see some praise for MoP. I remember how dubious people where about WoW trying to copy ‘Kung Fu Panda’ and all that, but it turned out to be my fav expansion. What I loved most about it was that it decided to explore new lore. The expansions before it always fell into "Oh remember this person/place from the old games? Well now they are back!" but this time we got a whole new continent and lore to explore that had, prior to then, just been hinted at with a ‘joke’ character from an old game. Plus I just loved the music and scenery.

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MoP didn't get its due until years later when people realized just how good they had it. It was and forever remains my favorite expansion all around. One might say that I liked it before it was cool. :p

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Originally Posted by Hurlstone

It's nice to see some praise for MoP. I remember how dubious people where about WoW trying to copy ‘Kung Fu Panda’ and all that, but it turned out to be my fav expansion. What I loved most about it was that it decided to explore new lore. The expansions before it always fell into "Oh remember this person/place from the old games? Well now they are back!" but this time we got a whole new continent and lore to explore that had, prior to then, just been hinted at with a ‘joke’ character from an old game. Plus I just loved the music and scenery.

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Something I've noticed in life is that people tend to be much rougher on a lot of things than history is. And it's weird seeing the turnaround.

I tend to just like what I like, but I remember, for example, FF9 being hated when it came out by the community (now it's looked at very fondly and praised as one of the "last legacy" FF games), the Star Wars prequels I remembered getting a lot of hate at the time but now people compare them to the new ones as positive, Star Trek: Enterprise was disliked when it was running but looked at pretty fondly now, etc.

When Mists was live, I was thinking at the time it was probably one of the better expansions the game had. Things were probably the most balanced overall in that expansion than they ever had been before (or arguably since), the world was pretty alive, I enjoyed the various content forms like the raids and the Timeless Isle (I think I was deployed during the Thunder isle, but it seemed to be pretty popular as well), and so on. It also has one of the most epic lines in gaming history to me:

"When I was young.... When _I_ was young......
...I was EMPEROR."

After that mountain climb with the old man, it was just such a powerfully delivered line to me, I still get a bit of chills from it.

I think it was probably the best or one of the best overall expansions in the game's history, it just took WoD and BfA and Shadowlands for people to finally make that realization, I think. A friend of mine and I were having a conversation at the time about it and he said the same thing. So some people did realize it, they were just drowned out by the negative nancies of the day, the people who always complain about "the current thing" no matter what it is.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

MoP didn't get its due until years later when people realized just how good they had it. It was and forever remains my favorite expansion all around. One might say that I liked it before it was cool. :p

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Same.

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Originally Posted by Renathras

Something I've noticed in life is that people tend to be much rougher on a lot of things than history is. And it's weird seeing the turnaround.

I tend to just like what I like, but I remember, for example, FF9 being hated when it came out by the community (now it's looked at very fondly and praised as one of the "last legacy" FF games), the Star Wars prequels I remembered getting a lot of hate at the time but now people compare them to the new ones as positive, Star Trek: Enterprise was disliked when it was running but looked at pretty fondly now, etc.

When Mists was live, I was thinking at the time it was probably one of the better expansions the game had. Things were probably the most balanced overall in that expansion than they ever had been before (or arguably since), the world was pretty alive, I enjoyed the various content forms like the raids and the Timeless Isle (I think I was deployed during the Thunder isle, but it seemed to be pretty popular as well), and so on. It also has one of the most epic lines in gaming history to me:

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The problem is not what ff9 is, but what ff8 and ff7 were.
ff7 is excellent from any point of view: characters, fight system (materia, we use the name "materia" in ff14 and there weren't materia in 1.0), world, story development (everyone cried when Aerith...)
ff8 is another excellent game: characters, fight system, side game (we have the card game in ff14!), story etc
ff9 is not excellent. it's another great and fun game of the golden age of squaresoft- square enix, but there is nothing memorable.

MoP is a Great expansion, full of things to do, humor, wonderful dungeons and raids BUT we were expecting something different after Tbc, wotlk and cataclysm, let's say we were expecting "legion".

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Originally Posted by Mr_Gyactus

ff9 is not excellent. it's another great and fun game of the golden age of squaresoft- square enix, but there is nothing memorable.

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For this blasphemy, I sentence you to play jump-rope with Vivi until you can do it 1000 times in a row without failing.

"Look upon my works ye mighty, and despair."

Probably making my first million or so gil. Crafting/Gathering was so much better than praetorium.

I've been playing since 1.0. But with this character starting it during ARR's beta, my first achievement was completing 10 unique quests! I remember I was a gladiator at the time trying to become a PLD. But WAR ended up being more fun to play back then lol. Still play warrior today XD

I was....being obsessed with Halo, I think.

I was still in the middle of my time playing the everloving piss out of AdventureQuest Worlds. I hold a lot of nostalgia and memories from that time period. Rift came a year or so later and damn what a missed opportunity of an mmo. For what it's worth, I enjoyed my time in that one too a lot. Still has my favorite overworld encounter system in any MMO

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Originally Posted by Zairava

I was still in the middle of my time playing the everloving piss out of AdventureQuest Worlds. I hold a lot of nostalgia and memories from that time period. Rift came a year or so later and damn what a missed opportunity of an mmo. For what it's worth, I enjoyed my time in that one too a lot. Still has my favorite overworld encounter system in any MMO

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Rest in peace OG Rift. That was such a fun game. And yeah, the elemental rift system was easily one of, if not my favorite overworld encounter system ever. I loved that hordes of enemies would attack quest hubs and other places of importance, forcing players to defend them or liberate them if they were overtaken. One of my fondest memories was when I held off wave after wave going toward an encampment wave as a Bladedancer rogue (I think that was the name of the spec). I felt unstoppable. The power fantasy was wonderful, and the specs for each class were extremely customizable.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Rest in peace OG Rift. That was such a fun game. And yeah, the elemental rift system was easily one of, if not my favorite overworld encounter system ever. I loved that hordes of enemies would attack quest hubs and other places of importance, forcing players to defend them or liberate them if they were overtaken. One of my fondest memories was when I held off wave after wave going toward an encampment wave as a Bladedancer rogue (I think that was the name of the spec). I felt unstoppable. The power fantasy was wonderful, and the specs for each class were extremely customizable.

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I was always Void Knight with Paladin built in and a few points into Paragon on the side (Warrior). I was near unkillable unless there was just that many mobs on me or 7+ players on me. Even if I couldn't kill them all I felt nothing short of like a god lmao

I was 8 months pregnant. I wasn't thinking about playing games :)

Skyrim was my life back then

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Originally Posted by Tahbitha

For this blasphemy, I sentence you to play jump-rope with Vivi until you can do it 1000 times in a row without failing.

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I guess "great and fun" was too generous.

I was playing a lot of League of Legends at the time. I used to play a lot of Dominion back then. Worlds would happen in October, and I was really into esports back then.
My PC at the time was a Celeron laptop, so I was about a week away from getting XIV on PS3 at the time of this post 10 years ago. I still have the game:

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Here, have a random 2013 PS3 screenshot I still have (same character too):
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Based on star position, I think the screenshots are mostly a match... poor PS3, it was really trying. I would not have been able to enjoy this game when I did if not for it, and I'll always be thankful for that.

I played 1.0 at release and stuck with it until they wanted money. I probably stopped FFXIV at that point and if I recall, finished up the Wings of Goddess expansion from FFXI and then played LOTRO for a year or so. I came back for 2.0 Beta and played since.

However, on 8/31/2013 (according to my achievement history):
- Extract Science I (extract 10 materia)
- Pounding out the Dents (Successfully synthesize 300 times for level 11-20 armorcraft recipes.)
- On the Payroll III (Earn a cumulative total of 10,000 gil from levequests.)
- Sweet Science II (Achieve pugilist level 20.)

I guess I leveled PGL first and was doing crafting at the same time. It's been a long time.

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Originally Posted by DiaDeem

I was playing a lot of League of Legends at the time. I used to play a lot of Dominion back then. Worlds would happen in October, and I was really into esports back then.
My PC at the time was a Celeron laptop, so I was about a week away from getting XIV on PS3 at the time of this post 10 years ago. I still have the game:

https://imgur.com/LIB5cOR.png

Here, have a random 2013 PS3 screenshot I still have (same character too):
https://imgur.com/T3N5WgN.png

https://imgur.com/W2Zfag9.png

Based on star position, I think the screenshots are mostly a match... poor PS3, it was really trying. I would not have been able to enjoy this game when I did if not for it, and I'll always be thankful for that.

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I started on ps3 in 2013 also and was surprised the game could run on it with as much as the game struggled on ps3.

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Originally Posted by Nebelheim

I started on ps3 in 2013 also and was surprised the game could run on it with as much as the game struggled on ps3.

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When I started playing, I thought it looked and ran like dream! I remember two very distinctly awful things about the PS3 version though: Other players running at 10fps when they were more than 3 feet away like Pokémon Scarlet NPCs, which in turn made participating in Hunt Trains or Odin/Behemoth impossible, and then that one time it took me like actually 3 - 5 minutes to load into Mor'Dhona. Other than that, I loved the game on PS3, though once I moved to PS4 it just became evident how limited the PS3 version actually was.

I still stand by the statement that CBU3 making Heavensward somehow fit in the PS3 is one of the most outstanding yet unrecognized achievements in gaming history. It's up there with some of the really good Switch ports we've seen this generation.

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Originally Posted by Tahbitha

For this blasphemy, I sentence you to play jump-rope with Vivi until you can do it 1000 times in a row without failing.

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Still better than dodging hundreds of thunders, but...
I don't remember anything memorable of ff9. Maybe Alexander, or when Vivi returns at his town? Dagger cutting her hairs? Ok, but in ff8 we catch our girlfriend in the open space, we renzokken bahamut jumping from wing to wing, and the dance cutscene! not the dance of Cloud in ff7 remake, but a good dance anyway!

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Originally Posted by DiaDeem

When I started playing, I thought it looked and ran like dream! I remember two very distinctly awful things about the PS3 version though: Other players running at 10fps when they were more than 3 feet away like Pokémon Scarlet NPCs, which in turn made participating in Hunt Trains or Odin/Behemoth impossible, and then that one time it took me like actually 3 - 5 minutes to load into Mor'Dhona. Other than that, I loved the game on PS3, though once I moved to PS4 it just became evident how limited the PS3 version actually was.

I still stand by the statement that CBU3 making Heavensward somehow fit in the PS3 is one of the most outstanding yet unrecognized achievements in gaming history. It's up there with some of the really good Switch ports we've seen this generation.

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It ran good on ps3 in areas with not many people but doing fates or loading into dungeons or going to areas with lots of people was the only time i noticed issues. When i switched to ps4 a month or so after it launched on it it was a massive improvement to load times and graphic quality i was amazed at the time considering i wasn't on pc at the time. Now i switch between ps5 and pc version and was cool to see the evolution of the game from ps3-ps5/pc.

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Originally Posted by Mr_Gyactus

Still better than dodging hundreds of thunders, but...
I don't remember anything memorable of ff9. Maybe Alexander, or when Vivi returns at his town? Dagger cutting her hairs? Ok, but in ff8 we catch our girlfriend in the open space, we renzokken bahamut jumping from wing to wing, and the dance cutscene! not the dance of Cloud in ff7 remake, but a good dance anyway!

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Final fantasy 8 was great till the second disk ended, our training mission run out of town with the robot spider chasing us, the assassination attempt, the gardens fighting and playing the role of Commander. However after that the main story fell flat, the deep sea ocean facility was cool I think that's what it's called but main story was just dropped the ball. Ff9 had some good points but parts of it felt like I was playing Chrono cross like the vivi going home and finding out he's a reject, final fantasy 10 other than blitzball I can't remember s*** about it except that annoying laugh.

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Originally Posted by Nebelheim

It ran good on ps3 in areas with not many people but doing fates or loading into dungeons or going to areas with lots of people was the only time i noticed issues. When i switched to ps4 a month or so after it launched on it it was a massive improvement to load times and graphic quality i was amazed at the time considering i wasn't on pc at the time. Now i switch between ps5 and pc version and was cool to see the evolution of the game from ps3-ps5/pc.

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Same! PS3 to PS4 to 750ti based PC to 6600 XT based PC! Couldn't run any better at 1080p nowadays. Even with heavy filters it can keep frame rate. XIV is a showcase in how versatile an engine can be. In that sense, and despite its age, it's a bit of a technological marvel.

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Same! PS3 to PS4 to 750ti based PC to 6600 XT based PC! Couldn't run any better at 1080p nowadays. Even with heavy filters it can keep frame rate. XIV is a showcase in how versatile an engine can be. In that sense, and despite its age, it's a bit of a technological marvel.

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The graphics update looks like it be a decent upgrade to textures for pc/ps5 once dawntrails comes out.

10 years ago I was a different gender

10 years ago I dropped out of college lmao.

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Originally Posted by LinaAkayomi

10 years ago I was a different gender

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It's wild how short 10 years can be but how much can change during it.