What game did you play before FFXIV and do you miss it?

Please explain why or why not (if there is anything you miss) :)*

*[Referring to online multiplayer RPGs of course]

I've played quite a few. The only ones with any overlap with FFXIV were WoW, which I enjoyed a lot but got sick of thanks to the constant PVP balance yo-yoing every five minutes, and FFXI, which I only quit because I was a PS2 player until they dropped PS2 support. I do miss FFXI, but I don't mind leaving the past where it is. It helps that my friends all quit FFXI along with me out of solidarity so it feels like the same group in another world, now we're all playing FFXIV together :)

I don't miss WoW at all. I quit at the right time, when it was exasperating enough that I knew I was happy to walk away, even though I'm sure they've added a lot of great stuff since. It was fun while it lasted.

FFXI

Do I miss it? Nope, it's still around if I want to visit xD

Note: I did play 1.0 for a short amount of time and kinda miss some things about it. I would like to revisit one day. (Patch 1.2x and onward)

I miss a lot when I used to play Ragnarok Online back in 2006. The online community was completely different to what it is now. I've met a lot of people from other countries and in my own country. Thanks to them I was able to travel there, meet them. Even today I am still in touch with them. We used to spend hours and hours idling or farming, chasing MvPs down or doing Guild Wars, theorycrafting or just chilling on voice chat.

FFXI
Miss it? Yes but only pre-abyssea era. Game is not any fun anymore and it lost that big community/friendly feeling I grew custom to when i picked it up 2005

I played on a WoW private server, and I do not miss it one bit. Don't get me wrong, the quality of the private server was fine, but you just can't really get those good old days of WoW back without some kind of compromise. I could tolerate not having truly Blizzlike quest scripting, but I was not happy with the amount of lag this server suffered during peak hours, nor how the end-game content was dominated by only a few specific guilds, one of which pretty much threw me out like trash when they merged with another guild.

But in FFXIV, although it admittedly took me some time to get in to due to the less-than-stellar early game, I ended up enjoying myself as much as I did back during the actual classic days of WotLK, paired with a great story and a wonderful guild that I could call home. All without having to compromise a thing. Sure I have to pay a monthly subscription now, but being able to play for free was never my goal anyway. I just wanted to play a good MMO, and I found one.

Before this I played WoW, like a lot of people here probably did. I do not miss it as it is, although I do miss the earlier expansions. I just don't like how the game went, personally. Near the end of Pandaria, a friend suggested this game after trying it a bit, and I never looked back. FF14 is the best MMO I ever layed hands on.

Prior to WoW I played Asheron's Call. I do miss that, but it's shut down now, just earlier this year. I wouldn't be able to play it now anyway, the graphics would eventually make me homesick for a prettier game, but it was a lot of fun in its time, for me at least.

Ive also played Tera and really liked it, but I only miss being able to play an adorable orange tabby cat-man. Played DAoC for like a week, didn't care for it. Elder Scrolls Online for like a month, didn't care for that either. But that's about it. ^_^

Oh a lot, a lot of them. They are still out there as well and the accounts are fine so... it's not really a 'miss them' thing as the memories are good and the reason to move on was solid; it just was time to try something new, you know, keep experiencing new things. That is the whole point, right? Besides it doesn't mean you'll never return or something. (Some names but definitely not limited to; LotrO, WoW, Tera, UO, ESO, RIFT, SW:Tor, GW) (Everquest! lol)

And that's only the MmoRpg's right? Experienced many more great online, but non-rpg, games as well. Offline RPG's as well. And offline non-rpg's lol. :D

Most are still there. Well, for the most part... there are some games which are gone now, or got sold to some new companies so the old 'online' accounts are gone.. Some examples that come to mind are RF Online, the Risk your Life series, pff many more as well. Miss them? Mmh well both of these had great PVP, that part was pretty awesome. There are more but whatever, those accounts are just gone forever.

I miss Blade and Soul combat, character customization and sexy outfits.

I mainly played ESO and GW2 before FFxiv. The only thing I missed is the dungeon difficulty in ESO and the trading post , dye, glamour and material wardrobe/bank in GW2. FFxiv could seriously use a lot of QoL imo.

I've played Ragnarok Online private servers before, and really enjoyed them. However, the ones I played are either gone or with a really small/struggling community now.. not enough incentive to go back. I actually transitioned from the last RO server to Ragnarok Online 2 when that came out. The initial release was a lot of fun, but the first expansion ruined the game for me. I played for awhile after, but it was too buggy/p2w/grindy. I left for FFXIV, and would not go back.

I do really like FFXIV, though, so there isn't any compelling reason for me to revisit other MMOs or search for a new one to play.

I miss WoW for, primarily, the Druid class. I loved playing that class so, so very much. So much so I actually had numerous characters of the same class just so I could level more of them. Really wish FF would get a shapeshifting class/job, I'd main that in a heartbeat assuming it were any good. Also miss the open world design of WoW. I have never cared for these very narrow and linear maps that are so very common in JRPGs (among others, like Biowares non-recent stuff).

Besides WoW, I miss the combat system, music, quest design (you actually got dialogue choices to add flavour!) and mostly the pvp from Age of Conan: Hyborean Adventures. World pvp in that game was so fun, and the areas in the game were really varied and often times beautiful (like the fields of Poitan or something like that).

FFXIV is my first MMORPG so there's nothing to miss, ahah.

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FFXIV is my first MMORPG so there's nothing to miss, ahah.

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Fitting name! Heheh.

SWTOR
I miss the instanced housing (strongholds), and the extremely alt-friendly (legacy) system a lot :(
But, on the whole, this game is much more better :)

I played The Secret World and WoW mostly. I went back to WoW for legion (briefly), but eventually left again. Don't really miss WoW, but I do miss TSW and have been dabbling the Secret World Legends recently. I love the lore, story and mission design in that game, which IMO, is still better than anything else in the MMO landscape.

I also play ESO a bit, but haven't gotten super far into it. I love these housing system, though.

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I played The Secret World and WoW mostly. I went back to WoW for legion (briefly), but eventually left again. Don't really miss WoW, but I do miss TSW and have been dabbling the Secret World Legends recently. I love the lore, story and mission design in that game, which IMO, is still better than anything else in the MMO landscape.

I also play ESO a bit, but haven't gotten super far into it. I love these housing system, though.

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How is legends? i've always like the idea of TSW but never got far in it, mostly cos i had no one to play with

Hmm did I play any before this, oh yeah, cod battlefield and hmmmm guess I'm not that big of a gamer lol

GW2 for the wardrobe and the way everything was stored as numerical value which make it less a pain to manage his inventory and glamour.
Mostly stopped because of the lack of end game content which FFXIv has given me, tho it started to lack of it too.

I played shin megami tensei imagine online till it died then went back to wow till 1.0 then came back for arr but I miss megaten more then wow just cas for a free to play it was better in alot of ways like for instence it had an elders scroles take on lvling how you lvled you stuff was by doing it so your attack lvled by attacking stuff and survival skills lvl ed by blocking attacks it was alot of fun and it had a persona aspect to it where you could tame demons to be used as mounts and battle pets

ESO and GW2.. Don't miss them, since I still play them occasionally :)

Before FFXIV I played WoW with a "garnish" of a few other MMORPGs - mostly LoTR, The Secret World, Neverwinter and Rift. I don't miss WoW itself, just some of its features like the streamlined transmogrification (glamour) system and its zone design.

Um, XIV isn't a do or die. Other games still exist and XIV doesn't invalidate them, why would I miss that which I can play any time?

Well unless they shut down...

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I played shin megami tensei imagine online till it died

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My sister in arms. Thissss. As a SMT/Persona fan after the fact it closed, I regret not playing it more. It introduced me to SMT in a way, and it's a shame to lose something with actually good assets since the graphics and art style work for any generation.

Also music actually by Shoji Meguro too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2uXxZoMqM

I have played some, but the one I used to play a lot prior to FFXIV was GW2. I don't miss it, I'm perfectly fine playing XIV, and a single-player game on the side.

Played Aion before this.. I miss my characters, but I do not miss the rest of the game. The grass is so much greener here in FFXIV. And 1000% less stressful.

FFXI. Played for 8 years. I miss the community it had do to things actually requiring that you get to know people and actually coordinate your abilities. The battle system, though many say is slower than FFXIV, felt fast and engaging. You couldn't just spam your highest damaging spells as a BLM because you would actually pull hate even off a tank that was fully geared and doing their job properly.

You actually had to heal and DPSing on a WHM was totally foreign for most.

You couldn't just focus on your own DPS you had to actually monitor and coordinate with team mates for max DPS numbers.

Pre-Abyssea FFXI was the perfect game.

Will be bouncing around FF14, WoW, D3 and BDO so nope nothing to miss because I don't "leave" them :p Really looking forward to patch 7.3 in Legion - should fill in the gap in September until October when 4.1 will come out in FF. Currently, I have been playing the new D3 season in the evenings on my Necromancer - really pretty fun (and Rathma set armor is OP...) It is too bad leveling alt jobs in this game is slow and boring - I would love to play more classes - but oh well, this is why I play multiple MMO's.

Ragnarok Online was where I started my MMO playing, back when it was subscription based. Took a few years off and played FPS mostly, then on a whim decided to try it again. Made some good friends, still talk to two of them regularly and they both play FFXIV. Don't really miss it since it became heavily pay-to-win with items that gave huge boosts to your stats, the ability to do both of the turn-ins at once(and select if you wanted all base of job EXP). Kind of miss the grind, but at the same time I also sat around for long periods of time not doing much but chatting/semi-AFKing and playing PS4 games at the same time. Would I go back? Probably not because of how P2W it became.

Oh you know, the usual: EQ1, XI, EQ2, Vanguard. I do have some fond memories about all of them, then I remember how long ago that was and how young I was, and realize I'm just another old fart now and get depressed.

RuneScape. Yes I mis it and the people I played with.

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Oh you know, the usual: EQ1, XI, EQ2, Vanguard. I do have some fond memories about all of them, then I remember how long ago that was and how young I was, and realize I'm just another old fart now and get depressed.

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I wasn't even really young anymore back then either, so yeah ;)

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Played Aion before this.. I miss my characters, but I do not miss the rest of the game. The grass is so much greener here in FFXIV. And 1000% less stressful.

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Oh, we'll just shut off any ability to not PvP when you hit a certain level, because you're on the Fast Track server for no reason at all. What a good idea!

Ugh.

My internet was terrible until I moved to a different location, so I never got to play WoW or anything like it.I'm sure if I did, my university grades would have suffered terribly! My first MMO was TERA back in 2012. I played a pudgy little Siamese-like popori named... Stormfur :)

White Knight Chronicles on PS3 until D3 Publishing, Level 5 and SCEA conspired to kill it. I loved that game, the online aspect was great and player community ruled. Most of my group came to Eorzea after our previous world was summarily destroyed.

FFXI and while I had a lot of fun back then for awhile... I don't miss it at all.

The time investment needed to do anything in that game was way too high and while I was a young teen it wasn't so bad, but now as an adult I just do not have the time for a game like that because with university or a job or both you just wouldn't have time to get very far or even have much of a chance to obtain the things you wanted.

For example I played FFXI for 6 years in my teens and I never obtained a dalmatica (or a lot of other pieces I tried to get as well) even with actively trying all those years lol (on my server I was part of the first NA group to take down Fafnir, Nidhogg, Kirin and other rare NMs) mind you I am talking about pre-abyssea when level cap stayed at 75 for a very long time; I quit not too long after abyssea and while I came back for a little bit I didn't play the game like I used to by then and as soon as FFXIV was released I went to play that and even stuck around for all of version 1.0 and never once looked back to FFXI even though 1.0 wasn't that great.

So FFXIV suits me a lot better and it surpassed FFXI for me personally. I know that in FFXIV if I put the work in I'll get what I am working for in maybe a few months (varies depending on what I'm trying to do though) instead of spending years and never getting things I worked my butt off for.

I miss the good old 10 man raid in wow, that was the good stuff. 20 man just killed the game for me, I can get behind the rng fieasta the game has become but not 20 man raiding, it feels more like a job.

TERA. I miss it sometimes, but it's entirely nostalgia; it was pretty decent when I played, but it's just gotten worse and worse over the years. And now that I've played FFXIV I can't stand those awful mindnumbing F2P games anymore.

I played TERA way back when it was good. I miss being able to iframe and Elin spam laugh but thats about it. They started releasing only female glamours and even went so far as to release FIVE female-only classes (and no new male-only/mixed gender classes since 2012). Crafting was a bust and you had an actual limit on how much you could gather. You could only enter an end game dungeon twice a day. On top of it all, they removed a huge chunk of dungeons and raids because no one did them. I hate gender-locks and I hate removal of content to force people into the two end game dungeons.

So... no. TERA can burn in a dumpster fire. I've enjoyed my time in FFXIV a heck of a lot more. More relaxing, more room to goof off, easier gearing, and mounts that aren't cash shop!

TERA and ESO.

I do not miss the games, but I do miss features that were present in the game.

- Races that look different (not human in different sizes like with FFXIV)
- Character creation where one can make a more unique looking avatar.
- Big maps with castles where players can do PvP.
- Movement and combat.

FFXi and I miss it terribly.