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

[Millerna]

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.

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

[Clethoria]

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.

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.

[Stormfur]

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

[Kosmos992k]

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.

[Miste]

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.

[Nezia]

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.

[Keydah]

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.

[Tsumdere]

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!

[Laerune]

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.

[Zarabeth]

FFXi and I miss it terribly.