Do you remember your first time playing FFXIV?

Oh those were the days... that we were speaking of the days back then in FFXI.

Alpha, and I remember pretty well. I logged in after work to a message saying "Alpha test will end for this session in 5 minutes"...

I was amazed by the stunning graphics.

I literally just got the game and played it for the first time. So yes I remember last week.

I remember chopping trees and thinking... "Where the crap are all these Naked Moles coming from???"

And thinking:

"Is that a Angler? Ruuuuuun!"

And remember... back then you couldn't auto disengage from a tree when you were attacked....

^LOL, a lot of have changed eh?

I remember running around with 0HP

After the first month of payment, how is everyone feeling?

Same as before payment started.

Still having fun every day with lots of things to do.
Most of my friends are still playing, so things are good. ^^

Started in the beta at some point... guessing it was open beta, 'cause I don't remember the feeling of "winning" access by chance. It was new, fresh, didn't feel like all the other theme parks I'd been through, and it was Final Fantasy! So I got the CE, and that first week where everyone was wearing the Onion Helm... not to mention the hermes shoes and the Asuran Armguards, which I still sport from time to time.

What started to get me down was the limit of 8 leves for what felt like more than 24 hours, and how they seemed to be the only interesting way to level up. Seemed like just grinding got you nothing. You had to pray you could find what you wanted in the mess of wards that were simply named different (not for what types of things were to be sold in that ward), everyone wanted like a bajillion gil for the next level range of gear, anima came back like, 1 every 24 hours or something.

Absolutely loved fishing though. :3

Came back shortly after subs started since I had 2000 crysta left over, and I'm lovin' it still today! With high hopes for the improvements we'll be seeing this year. :D