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

[Ameela]

I played a bunch of F2P korean MMOs and I don't miss them at all.
The most notable ones are Grand Fantasia, Dragon Nest (this one was kinda cool actually) and ELOA.
They weren't THAT bad but they were ultimately just out to get your money and most of the community was really bad, also they don't know how difficulty curve works at all, especially ELOA.

I also used to play a lot of LoL and the reasons I quit should be fairly obvious for anyone who's played it for more than 2 hours

[Enkidoh]

FFXI was my very first MMO, and I started FFXIV 1.0 (and by extension ARR) as it was FFXI's spiritual successor. And no I don't really miss it, as I've never really left FFXI (apart from occasional one or two week lapses in subscription due to bills taking priority), I just enjoy FFXIV far far more, as FFXIV is everything I wanted in FFXI (that and my FFXI friends and family moved to FFXIV with me ). FFXI will still hold a special place in my heart for me though, as among other things I met my boyfriend there.

Apart from FFXI I also tried other MMOs like WoW and The Old Republic, but never enjoyed them the same as I enjoyed FFXI and now FFXIV (although being a FF fangirl does have something to do with that I guess ).

[RichardButte]

I miss the healers from WoW because they had actual rotations and weren't expected to stand around DPSing 80% of the time.

[Dark-Saviour]

GW2. I miss aspects of it (the wardrobe, crafting inventory, jumping physics [though even they could be improved]) and so on.
But the game was never what I wanted it to be, nor was it what I feel they promoted it to be.


I still go back from time-to-time to unlock new living world packs, but it's been a while since I've returned to play in any significant way.
There's been enough new content and maps added that I should probably give it another go, but since HoT hit, the game really seemed to devolve into "Do the newest thing we added over and over again and hope that enough other players are doing it too!" so I don't know that it's worth it.
Was miffed enough about the map-wide success rate that the expansion added since trying to organize an entire zone has never worked (even the world bosses still had a lot of problems related to this), but when trying to do some of the achievements for the "Current Events" they added, it just got to be too annoying. Either there weren't enough bodies there, or the event would scale terribly and make the achievement conditions near impossible, so that really put me off.
Last time I really played was the Bloodstone Fen chapter, and it just seemed so incredibly grindy and dull I lost interest again pretty quick.

Actually somehow managed to miss that the new expansion was coming. New specs seem... questionable (or rather, kind of forced) except for Deadeye (about damned time). And Spiritbeast finally gives a large part of the ranger community what we wanted, but in a very... odd sort of package. Might still give it a go though.

Honestly, the biggest hurdle to getting back into it in any serious way to me (content aside) would just be the control scheme. I just really don't like playing with Mouse+KB these days.

[Erudito]

Before FFXIV? Dude (or dudette), I have been playing this game for over 3 years, I don't remember what I played right before I started it. This is my first MMO too.

However, there are 2 games that call out to me repeatedly and I was playing them before Stormblood hit. These being Dark Souls 3 and Final Fantasy 15. And more recently, Final Fantasy 12 on PS4. It is a struggle to get things done in the 14th and play the others but that just makes things more interesting.

[Vaunhause]

Played Dragon Nest for 6 years. Only thing I missed from that game was the PvP, because it was mechanically deep, but the class imbalance became too much and the PvE became too P2W once awakenings hit in 93 cap. Was considering Kritika but decided against it, because I love FFXIV too much.

So no, not really. It's FFXIV and JRPG's for me from now on.

[AdventZero]

FFXI was my first MMO, and the one I played before FFXIV 1.0 came out years ago. Do I miss it? Yes...or so I would like to say. Truth is, I think I miss the innocent newbie days of just playing for the fun of it more then FFXI it's self. Back then I just logged on and did whatever and had a blast. Now I spend all my time stressing about my gear stats. Worrying my rotation isn't good enough. Or reading up on every fight in the game so I don't make any mistakes. Looking at the me of the past vs. the me of today, I envy the past me so much. /sigh

[Rawrz]

Fiesta. Healers being encouraged to DPS was what made me fall so hard for ffxiv after. That and the noncritical cash shop.

[The_NPC]

thou it doesn't count as an "MMO" due to the story/campain being Solo-only & the multiplayer being for side quests and a sub-endgame dungeon my previous game was White Knight Chronicles 1/2, played it for 2 years straight, I don't miss it but if I ever do I'll go dig out my PS3 & the game... thou the thought that a) the server for multiplayer was shutdown & b) didn't like most of the "main cast" keeps me away anyway

[Awful]

GW2 and Tera were my main games with a WoW private server that I grabbed people from there and we raided here even today in FFXIV. I don't miss the private server but I miss Teras combat and tanking it was a freakin rush to perfect block everything, manage hate and DPS. Gw2 I miss their PvP quite a bit was fluid, and builds were based on what weapons you had equipped and of course open world PVP mmmm I miss that.

I did try Legion, gave it a fair shot as I love WoW but the raids were boring, class nerfs every month or so and the disregard to PvP was enough for me. The ONLY thing that I love about current WoW is the Mythic+ dungeon system and personal loot that goes along with it, if FFXIV could take that with the modifiers it's PVE content would be absolute.