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

[Ayerinn]

World of Warcraft. That game didn't have level sync, so no, I don't miss it (Picture nearly all instances, except maybe current-tier raids, being like the Castrum and Praetorium duties or the level 50/60 dungeons. No thank you.)

lol? Keeping old content relevant is nice and all, well, except it is ruined by losing 90% of your abilities and classes playing nothing like they do at 70... unfortunately it kinda evens out to a big fat meh regarding the sync feature.

[NolLacnala]

City of Heroes. I'm not bitter towards NC or anything.

[MicahZerrshia]

FFXI

....buuuut being as bored as I am with the constantly rehashed content in XIV I resubbed to XI a few days ago and the games are like night and day with XI still being the superior of the two. It may be a lil clunky, but the content is still good, still being updated and still interesting, the people are friendly, the 16 servers are more populated now than they were 5 years ago, the stories are great and my gear doesn't outdate at hyperspeed. Oh I also got ESO updated but haven't restarted it. We shall see how the content and people are there soon!

So maybe XIV will actually take XI's spot in my "game I used to play" idk yet, we shall see. But I have been here since 2010 and with no new content, just reskins of the same thing, this may not hold me much longer.

[Derceto]

Final Fantasy XI, and I do miss it. Time spent in that game (as demanding as it was) was rewarding, unlike here, where your progress is reset every few weeks for no reason other than "bigger numbers" (oooooh, ahhhhh).

Also, I mean the "real" FF XI. Not this grotesque mutation they have flailing around these days merely wearing the name.

So ya, I've missed it for more than a few years now.

[Sagittarii]

I mostly played offline RPGs, fighting games and action games. I come from a console gaming background, and the only reason I even tried an online RPG was because it was "Final Fantasy" and I had enjoyed many offline Final Fantasy games.

I played FFXI a while back (2004-2006), that was my first MMO and I miss some aspects of it. Mainly, the community, how players knew each other and had reputations. Also, the combat required less movement and button mashing, so there was more time to type and socialize. I do like FFXIV's combat better, but I wish I had more time to type sometimes.

What I don't miss about FFXI was the rampant job discrimination. Since all the parties were formed manually by players, if you were not leveling up a popular job, you would struggle to find a party. I remember my Dynamis LS (raid group) had a ban on Dragoons, lol. Duty Finder in FFXIV protects you from that kind of stuff to some degree.

[Jib]

Swtor

Miss lightsabers, Star Wars lore... and lightsabers.
But this game is better in majority of aspects except one .... no lightsabers.

[Zeromon]

I dabbled a lot in free mmorpgs in the past, and the one right before FFXIV was MapleStory. I was actually really into that game with its flashy skills and admittedly easy game play. However as with most free mmorpgs the grind for common quests soon became a nightmare (every kill quest was asking for hundred or more mobs and that was just too much). But the game also had sooooooo much side content that there was always something easy for you to do that still rewarded you (lore, levels, equips, etc.). The stories in that game were also surprisingly well done. The regular events had content that was relevant to progression as well (the most useful were the powerful pots that mattered a lot since healing was non existent), while being very fleshed out so they didn't seem like total throwaway content.

I don't particularly miss any part of it. I have nice fond memories of that game that I think are enough for me now. I found FFXIV after getting a bit bored of the grind in MS, and the first kill quest right outside the city asked for like 3 mobs or 6 mobs and that felt so nice that I instantly fell in love with the game (before the nostalgia did).

[BillyKaplan]

Marvel Heroes. I miss my guild there more than anything. The game itself got pretty old pretty fast with them having to release a bunch of new heroes every year, which, alongside the eternal bug fixes, ate up any time they had to release new content. I haven't played in forever but I'm fairly certain that my main is still pretty viable for endgame content.
After what happened with the teleportation, however, when they made the game outright unplayable due to new camera movements, and released it despite there being a lot of feedback saying as much, I kind of gave up on Gazillion. They released it, ignoring their player-testers' feedback, and then acted all shocked when a lot of people who didn't bother with the test build said exactly the same thing. Meh.

[DarkSlayerGrimm]

SWTOR

I miss having a voiced character,companions,story choices and your character ACTUALLY doing stuff/interacting in cutscenes not drawing your weapon and scowling. I loved tanking in SWTOR i loved charging in,slamming down my lightsaber force pushing a boss off a ledge then charging to another enemy and throwing out taunts but instead being stuck with doing the same thing over and over again in FFXIV run in small room>turn boss around>rinse and repeat for EVERY single dungeon/trial/raid in the game with tanking being a chore rather then a fun experience. But why am I here playing FFXIV if I loved SWTOR so much...simple New Content, SWTOR went and turned its back on its playerbase forsaking its hardcore playerbase and going 3 long years without making a new raid/group content and 2 SINGLE PLAYER EXPANSIONS instead, I dont have to worry about that with FFXIV now do I.

But its not without its cons I can't stand how many restrictions and limitations that ffxiv has compared to F2P MMOs where everytime I'm asked what it can do better there are just sooo many damn things that other MMOs/F2Ps just does better then this Sub-Based MMO. SWTOR compared to FFXIV, swtor had a disastrous glamour system but they took the time and turned it into a simple drag in drop system whereas a glamour overhaul with ffxiv will never see the light of day cause of server limitations, instances were a MINOR feature in swtor but ffxiv had the worst type of instance system I have ever seen.

[Sarteck]

I don't even remember.... Xenoblade Chronicles, I think it was. And that was the closest thing I ever played to an MMO.

But, like I said, no, I don't miss it. It was a good game, but I am having way too much fun to miss it.