Do you remember your first time playing FFXIV?

[Nayito]

first time i logged it was strange, i had a friend who had been playing for some time and he took me along, showed me all the placed and then got me some lvls and xp, and that earring, the mooglet or something like that. and the funny thing is more than a year later when the final save took place, i never knew what area was where i got lol

[Zezlar]

Remember thinking "Why the #### is this thing downloading so damn slow."

[Nix]

I was there on day 1 of alpha, which got cancelled after the japanese players had had their time on the servers because something broke XD.

I played, enjoyed the alpha but spent most of my time trying not to DC! Fast forward to the bet and I took up fishing -- I loved the fishing! ...and still do, it's very therapeutic (and who doesn't want shiny gold subligars?!)

All I'd do was gather and craft for a while, I wanted to make things, help people and that drive still hasn't changed 2 years later

[Felis]

On my first day I was killed by a goat at camp bearded rock ^^
It was the first monster that crossed my way.

[Tonkra]

first thing i thought "what the heck is going on with the mouse cursor" took about 1 minute to scroll the mouse from one to an other corner..

really tooo bad that software mouse.. i couldnt f*** believe it ;XD


i walked around really aimlessly, no clue at all where to go. what to do.

[Firon]

When I first played i thought this sh@t is the same as the beta >.>

[Colino]

Dem wolves outside Gridania man.

What a nightmare.

[Zezlar]

Watching those ants kill people on the way to Drybone was hilarious.

[MyKotoShi]

Oh, and there was that one Peiste that hung out right outside Ul'dah lol

[hrdndv]

How could I forget the first time? I got the Collector's Edition on the first day of release at Gamestop in California. I put the game in my reader and clicked load and nothing happened. I read the specs again more carefully and my entire computer was too old. So I went to work upgrading and finally cobbled together a minimal system. Tried again and the CD drive froze. I went to the internet to update my driver and my internet quit. I searched my disks for a CD driver and put that in and there was an awful noise and my computer exploded! Literally! It sounded like a stick of dynamite going off. I had bits of plastic in my hair and my ears were ringing. The room was full of smoke and more was pouring out of my computer. Smelled awful. When I was sure there was no permanent damage to me, I salvaged the FFXIV stuff and scratched my head. It took a month to pick out a new computer that I was sure would run the game and get the upgrades I needed. It was probably two months before everything was set up and I tried to get the game running. I still had a virgin copy of windows so it still didn't run. It was several days before I got DirectX and everything working. Then the game wouldn't load because Norton antivirus was blocking it. Took a while to figure out that is what was going on. Finally I loaded it and it took two days to get ity running. Then I realized I needed a controller to play better so I had to get and install one. Installing stuff in those old machines was not easy. Reinstall to get the game controller to work. I was spending all of my free time on FFXIV, LOL. And still hadn't played! So I got a pizza and a case of coke and tried it. It blew away XI in graphics and player controls. The graphics were awsome. And someone stole my computer! It was some time before I got a new computer. Long enough that my account was deactivated, I think, or I just signed in wrong, because I lost all my previous characters... two of them. I didn't start over from scratch until last year. I am still addicted to it. Can't wait for the new Rebirth.

Sorry for the wall of text.

BTW the first thing I really did was fish. I knew how to fish from XI so that is what I did for months.