I think I started with FF on the Super Nintendo forgot which one it was after that I kinda forgot about the series and returned with FF7 and since then played them all. Didn't really like FFXII though. FFXIII was okay not the FF I was hoping for but I didn't feel like I wasted my money on it
In terms of MMOs I played pretty much all of the big name MMOs with some small ones here and there but FFXI was the first one that had my subscription for around 5 years. My norm before that was maybe half-1 year. With ocassional resubs.

Basically I bought FFXIV 1.0 because I was expecting another FFXI with better graphics but sadly that wasn't the case. Played it a bit here and there (being free for people who bought it early helped) but the spark didn't really go over. Now with FFXIV ARR I still didn't get my FFXI HD but it's way more enjoyable than before and given what they did with expansion packs in FFXI I'm really looking forward to what they'll cook up for this game.