10 years ago I was . . .

[Elkanah]

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

[EstelleCere]

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

[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

[Vahlnir]

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

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.

[Zairava]

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.

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

[Alrin]

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

[Rupertus]

Skyrim was my life back then

[VictorSpoils]

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

I guess "great and fun" was too generous.

[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:



Here, have a random 2013 PS3 screenshot I still have (same character too):




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.

[dspguy]

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.