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

I've played quite a few. The only ones with any overlap with FFXIV were WoW, which I enjoyed a lot but got sick of thanks to the constant PVP balance yo-yoing every five minutes, and FFXI, which I only quit because I was a PS2 player until they dropped PS2 support. I do miss FFXI, but I don't mind leaving the past where it is. It helps that my friends all quit FFXI along with me out of solidarity so it feels like the same group in another world, now we're all playing FFXIV together

I don't miss WoW at all. I quit at the right time, when it was exasperating enough that I knew I was happy to walk away, even though I'm sure they've added a lot of great stuff since. It was fun while it lasted.

FFXI

Do I miss it? Nope, it's still around if I want to visit xD

Note: I did play 1.0 for a short amount of time and kinda miss some things about it. I would like to revisit one day. (Patch 1.2x and onward)

I miss a lot when I used to play Ragnarok Online back in 2006. The online community was completely different to what it is now. I've met a lot of people from other countries and in my own country. Thanks to them I was able to travel there, meet them. Even today I am still in touch with them. We used to spend hours and hours idling or farming, chasing MvPs down or doing Guild Wars, theorycrafting or just chilling on voice chat.

FFXI
Miss it? Yes but only pre-abyssea era. Game is not any fun anymore and it lost that big community/friendly feeling I grew custom to when i picked it up 2005

I played on a WoW private server, and I do not miss it one bit. Don't get me wrong, the quality of the private server was fine, but you just can't really get those good old days of WoW back without some kind of compromise. I could tolerate not having truly Blizzlike quest scripting, but I was not happy with the amount of lag this server suffered during peak hours, nor how the end-game content was dominated by only a few specific guilds, one of which pretty much threw me out like trash when they merged with another guild.

But in FFXIV, although it admittedly took me some time to get in to due to the less-than-stellar early game, I ended up enjoying myself as much as I did back during the actual classic days of WotLK, paired with a great story and a wonderful guild that I could call home. All without having to compromise a thing. Sure I have to pay a monthly subscription now, but being able to play for free was never my goal anyway. I just wanted to play a good MMO, and I found one.

Before this I played WoW, like a lot of people here probably did. I do not miss it as it is, although I do miss the earlier expansions. I just don't like how the game went, personally. Near the end of Pandaria, a friend suggested this game after trying it a bit, and I never looked back. FF14 is the best MMO I ever layed hands on.

Prior to WoW I played Asheron's Call. I do miss that, but it's shut down now, just earlier this year. I wouldn't be able to play it now anyway, the graphics would eventually make me homesick for a prettier game, but it was a lot of fun in its time, for me at least.

Ive also played Tera and really liked it, but I only miss being able to play an adorable orange tabby cat-man. Played DAoC for like a week, didn't care for it. Elder Scrolls Online for like a month, didn't care for that either. But that's about it. ^_^

I miss Blade and Soul combat, character customization and sexy outfits.

I mainly played ESO and GW2 before FFxiv. The only thing I missed is the dungeon difficulty in ESO and the trading post , dye, glamour and material wardrobe/bank in GW2. FFxiv could seriously use a lot of QoL imo.