Your MMO History

i played a small MMO called Biosfear for 4 Years until they shut down the servers (Savage Eden in US, Laghaim is the original name)

then i played Phantasy Star Portable 2, wich is not really an MMO, but somehow it is ^^ too bad it was my first Phantasy Star but also the last they released in the west. servers shut down in 2015 :/

because PSO2 didn't came to the west i begun with FF14. and last year i startet with Elite: Dangerous

My MMO history is pretty short:
Guild Wars
Guild Wars 2
Perfect World
Blade and Soul
Rift
Revelation Online
Black Desert Online

I played XIV after Guild Wars 2, before that I pretty much spent about 4 years in Guild Wars 2. Everything else lasted less than a year, or about a year. I don't like playing many MMOs, they are either too PvP-centric or I was too young to care about playing optimally (mostly talking about Guild Wars 2 here).

I started with an old school FTP Korean cestpool of a game called Knight Online. I then played WoW during WotLK and then started FF14 when Stormblood came out last summer.

I see no one which played Lineage 2. History begins in 2004 and ends in 2012 as a lineage 2 player since i really wanted to go full fledge hardcore on gw2 .

Besides the 8 years with lineage 2 : aion, tera , wow,eso for a bit and then when searching for an alternative for wow, found FFxiv in 2015. Since then stuck with it , never unsubbing.

Runescape, which also was my first online experience, for like a year.
Then WoW from launch to a year ago, beginning as a hardcore raider and slowly turning into casual as life changed.
I also played SWTOR at launch, and have returned a couple months to continue the story. Its slow pace keeps me off despite loving the true Star Wars.
As WoW began becoming stale I dabbled on some other MMORPGs, like LotRO, DCUO, Neverwinter, and more recently Tera, but none of them managed to hook me up, at least for a long time. In fact I didn´t reach max level in any of them.

The one thing that I find FFXIV does better than its rivals is the story. Compared to this game´s, WoW´s story looks written by a child, what with the constant retcons and characters doing 180º personality flips. FFXIV has a mature and coherent story that keeps you hooked up to the end. SWTOR also has a good story, but its pace is much slower.

Anarchy Online (Meta-Physicist, 220, AI 28 (no 30 :( ), Inferno Perma Key Holder), yeah sums up quite some hours of gameplay.

My MMO progression was Ragnarok Online > Star Wars Galaxies > various random F2P MMOs I don't care to remember > WoW > PSO2 > XIV

Im a console player so it was dc universe online at first. I really loved it but it became increasingly toxic over time (the hero faction more so than the villain side ironically), and filled with rmt spam in chat everywhere!

My League (dcuo version of fc) moved to eso and I went with them. That game was fun, very immersive and with the scaling they just added you can play a new expansion pack on release and not worry about gearing up or staying on the gear treadmil at all really. But my guilds were all very pvp focused and I prefer pve so I redownloaded ffxiv (id previously bought arr at launch but didnt enjoy it) and have been here over 3 years now I think.

Too many to list here,so only the most memorable:

1. MapleStory
2. FlyFF
3. Knight Online
4. Silkroad Online
5. World of Warcraft
6. Mabinogi
7. Wakfu

What I like about FFXIV in particular are:

1. The community
2. The world (Graphics,environment,lore,etc)
3. Emotes
4. The variety of content

I started off playing chinese mmos because friends in elementary school got me into it and I was in grade 3 back then so I still don't know what was going on fully.

Then a few years later I got into perfect world online, which is another chinese mmo but it's got a NA server so I've played on both. Then jade dynasty online, which is developed by the same company as perfect world so the game is the same kind of deal and I've got the fondest memories in these 2 games of out of all the mmos I've played since the world was beautiful and I thought the character creator was really ahead of its time for mmos back then. Also flight and swimming as well as their respective combat, I thought that was amazing beyond words. Eventually I ended up stopping though because it got too pay2win too quickly like any other f2p mmos and as much as I miss it I wasn't about to whale on a game that was on its way out.

I also Played maple story for maybe 2 weeks and I quickly realized it just isn't my kind of game. Tried dragon's nest for a bit too and while I liked what I play, but my pc at the time is too potato to run the game at a good enough framerate so I just left it after a few days.

DFO is the mmo I've spent the most amount of time playing at 3 to 3 and a half years since the combat system is just too addicting and the daily grinds never felt boring to me. I had to drop it in the end though since missing a daily felt real bad and I wasn't able to find the time and energy to keep up with it near the end, and also pay2win.

And now after being tempered in f2p mmos, the 'grinding' in ff14 felt really easy. In fact I wouldn't even call it grinding myself considering how fast you can get a thing that isn't time gated. For as much crap as I like to give 14 this is easily the best overall mmo I've ever played, which is all the more frustrating since I started shortly after 3.4 dropped and having played and experienced everything from level 1 it just irritates me how lukewarm stormblood has been for me so far. Nevertheless, the 'honeymoon' period I had with this game lasted for well over a year and for that alone I would probably never out right quit playing until they shut it down.