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

[Nerfworthy]

Played WoW for 10 years. Met my now IRL husband on that game, and had some really good times. However.......... after several years of starting a new expansion, then quitting 2 months later because it just wasn't the same as it used to be for me, Stormblood has finally put the final nail in that coffin for me. I'm never looking back!

[Naunet]

I play multiple MMOs simultaneously. I very rarely fully quit an MMO, though one that I have quit irrevocably is TERA. I miss what it was pre-f2p (loved the combat), but when they changed the costume and dye system, I quit and never looked back.

Right now, I am playing WildStar, WoW, and FFXIV. Occasionally we poke at GW2 (trying to work through story there, though the whole mastery restrictions are wearing on me), and I've still got Rift, BnS, and Revelation Online installed on the off-chance I get a bug to play.

Whenever I play FFXIV, the things I miss most from other MMOs are the costume and dye systems, the fact that I don't have to worry about inventory space, housing, double jump, open zone design, and WildStar's style of raid boss encounters (soooo fun and challenging). xD

[Blackcanary]

FFXI I miss the community and the open world dungeons.

[AlphaFox]

Before I started playing FF14 I want to say it was Wizadry Online and Shin Megami Tensei Online. I recall both very highly, the fact they are both shut down, I guess due to poor numbers. I'd say they were both hardcore mmorpgs in a way, skill over button mashing. Granted I also started in the closed beta of ARR so to far for me to really remember. I know I did end up buying and playing FF11 for about a month with my brother but at that time I think it was also a ghost town in the beginning areas and he eventually quit and I got bored from playing solo.

[Sandpark]

FFXI, doesn't make sense cause it's still there but it is not the same as 5 or so years ago. Call it rose tinted glasses, but I have yet to experience a community like that. Lots of people talking or shouting, even if you weren't in their linkshell. Was it the inability to be independent or the slower combat? Idk but always had people wanting to help and talk. If it got a graphic and UI update, I'd probably still play it a bunch, but I am spoiled with better graphics and modern UI since joining the PC master race.

[Paladinleeds]

I've played several MMOs in my time but the one I played before FFXIV was RuneScape. I don't miss it tbh. FFXIV does everything I like in RuneScape, but better (except for the limited housing of FFXIV, RuneScape was unlimited provided you had membership, and if your membership lapsed you just couldn't enter your house but it never got deleted). Only problem with RuneScape's housing system was it was tied to the Construction skill. Which was just a GP sink like no other.

[s3ystic]

Blade and Soul – I miss the fighting game action and equal opportunity hypersexualized graphics, which was done right unlike that garbage that was Scarlet Blade. I do not miss the lag, and the abrupt grind wall toward end game.

Tera - I got two classes to 50++ then stopped playing because I didn't have any friends to enjoy the game with. It is very pretty and ages gracefully. Alas there wasn't much to keep my attention.

Champions online – I miss the customization, no game has done it better, I do not miss everything else.

DCUO – Before it became the garbage it is today, I loved the travel powers and action combat. The customization was nowhere on the level of Champions online, but man was it still fun collecting pieces for your super hero costume.

Final Fantasy 11 – I miss the old community mostly. I went back once, and the game is so old now and the players left over are not very friendly anymore. So yeah I don’t miss it as much as have fond memories of it.

WildStar – Funny, goofy, sci fi, awesome production values. I don’t miss the bullet hell like combat and the sometimes frustrating action management. The character classes never really clicked with me either.

The Secret World – I miss the modern lovecraftian stories, I miss having to dig through online websites for information (it wasn’t wiki stuff either.) The atmosphere was awesome. I don’t miss the graphics and I don’t miss the gameplay all that much. The new one, The Secret World Legends is repackaged watered down garbage.

GW2 – I pop in now and again just to look at my cool as hell cabbage elementalist! No other game has offered me the ability to play as a plant person. That is the only reason it stays installed on my PC. I haven’t played it for a while and even when the expansion comes out im pretty sure it wont be enough to pull me away from here. Still I have the least bad stuff to say about GW2. Oh, best pvp for an MMO, ever. I liked it more than Blade and Soul.

PSO, PSO2, MHO, Vindictus – I all rank as instanced beat em ups, and like diablo, only hold my interest for so long.

So we come to Final Fantasy 14. The pros outweigh the cons for me, I have hit a few annoying things here and there but the community is generally nicer than most. There are a ton of things to do in the form of minigames and other time killers. The combat, while simplistic, really shines in the more complex dungeons. There are plenty of dress up options both modest and not. The Story telling is what I have come to expect from a Final Fantasy title. Lastly the Soundtrack ranks up there with my top 3 favorite soundtracks for an MMO ever. (GW2 and Granado Espada being the other 2.)

[Meillquei]

Before FF14, I mostly played WOW and Guild Wars 2.

WOW: It was fun for a while, but eventually it just started feeling very stale and lacked any potential. I don't miss it.

Guild Wars 2: I loved vanilla Guild Wars 2. There was just so many good things about it for me. Then Heart of Thorns put a very heavy emphasis on grouping in order to progress, and that was a huge turnoff for me. That and the mastery grinding. I miss my guild, but I probably won't go back.

[Millerna]

Guild Wars 2: I loved vanilla Guild Wars 2. There was just so many good things about it for me. Then Heart of Thorns put a very heavy emphasis on grouping in order to progress, and that was a huge turnoff for me. That and the mastery grinding. I miss my guild, but I probably won't go back.

I've soloed all of HoT, and I'm not very good at soloing in GW2 really. The mastery grind is still there, but at least the story is no longer liked behind certain masteries, although having them does help make the fights easier. I'm only about 13 mastery myself, since I pretty much stopped playing when I found out the story was locked behind masteries.

[Fredco191]

Elsword and no. That game is pretty bad in my opinion.
The PvP's unbalanced due to the fact that most of the players bought items from the cash shop. Not to mention how overpowered certain characters are since skills aren't modfied for PvP.
The PvE was boring for me.
There is no character creation.

Since the game is based off of the manga. You have to choose which character you want to play as. Sure, later you can choose what class they end up as. But that and buying costumes from the cash shop is pretty much it for character customization.

And you have to buy their in-game currency to be able to get four more keys for your hotbar.(You only have four skills to use if you don't buy it.)
No. I don't miss that game.

This is how it was before I quit. Somethings could be different now. But I'm not taking any chances.