Do you remember your first time playing FFXIV?

[MiNuN]

I remember playing through Beta and hoping a lot of the issues would be resolved for the retail release. When I got the retail release I quickly noticed it was pretty much the same version as open beta. Still very laggy UI, 5 seconds to sell each item to an NPC, etc.... They fixed some of these issues but people were quitting left and right. If it wasn't for the decision to make it free to play I would probably be gone as well.

I was only allowed to experience the open beta for 5 minutes :|

[Ruri]

I was only allowed to experience the open beta for 5 minutes :|

I think my client crashed at LEAST 20 times a day while playing. Usually during leves too which was really annoying -_-.

[Ruri]

Oh, and I remember the clusterF*** of people trying to connect to the closed beta servers before they were 24/7 and killing the servers pretty much every day. Fun times.

[Lissandra]

I started playing since Open Beta, if that counts...Since you said your first time playing it. Anyway, I've seen some major improvements here and there since those open beta days.

[MiNuN]

With 1.20 coming soon, does anybody one wants to pitch in their memories ^^;;

[AdvancedWind]

Yes...I remember when this thread was created 5 months ago. Those were good times.

[Answa]

You love your threads too much. Let them die in peace.

[Holy_Dragoon]

I remember trying so hard to level up with groups as a CNJ who had to compete with other healers in order to gain SP. I spent so much time exploring that Fatigue was never an issue for me in the early days.

[HiirNoivl]

I started as botanist... I remembered my first cutscene and I was shocked to find myself in a battle situation... How was I supposed to deal with this?! Wait... I throw a rock at it?! oh ok... lol lame...

First thing I did was go out and chop some trees. Then I did some chop tree leves.

Groovy man... groovy.

[Atoli]

I was totally confused.
I started out in Gridania as a cute little Lalafell CON, watched a beautiful cutscene...and suddenly was thrown into a battle without any tutorial.
It was horrible, and I nearly died xD

I thought it would be a good idea to play in English (so I would know the names of things when talking to English speaking players) but I realized soon I didn't understand a word of what the NPCs were saying in their weird Old-English..x-X
So I shut down the game after a few minutes and returned to my language.