Your MMO History

[Seig345]

Primary ones I put anything remotely approaching considerable time into, and roughly in the order I played them:
EverQuest (started when Ruins of Kunark was the only expansion)
Final Fantasy XI (Rise of the Zilart)
World of WarCraft (Vanilla)
Eve Online (Don't even know)
Star Wars: The Old Republic (Launch)
Star Trek Online (Beta and for some stupid reason I bought the Lifetime sub... *facepalm*)
Final Fantasy XIV (1.0 from Beta until the servers went down, 2.0 "Alpha" through today)

I've dabbled in countless others for a couple hours or so such as:
That Conan one (ermagerd you guys, nipples! That's a selling point right? Meh...)
Elder Scrolls Online (Candidate for most likely to go back to if I ever actually quit FFXIV)
EverQuest 2 (They gave my Wood elf character's home of Kelethin to the fae... pretty much ragequit over that alone)
Tera, Aion, GW2 were all kinda on the same level of my "Meh" scale
Runscape...
Why am I even listing all of these?

What's kept me hooked to FFXIV is probably a mix of the music, visual aesthetic, being able to play every class/job on a single character, and probably an overall sense of nostalgia in it being one of the last vestiges of a primary Final Fantasy title that's rooted in its more classic fantasy/steam-punk roots vs the more science-fantasy route the series took from 7 onward (for the most part). All of those combine into a unique experience that no other MMORPG seems to nail for my personal tastes. A 6 month sub that comes out to roughly $8/mo doesn't hurt either when you look at the MMOs that have hung on to the subscription model. ;p

I agree with most people's complaints about the repetitive patch pattern, but I still enjoy the MSQ content and such. I just never expect it to last me the full 3+ months between major patches, and embrace the downtime as a chance to catch up on the single player games that tend to get backed up in my collection because of all the grinding I do in FFXIV. I've never been one to try to dive into an MMORPG as my soul game for years straight.

[Hierro]

Before ffxiv, I was a long time mabinogi player, stuck around for 8 years!

Aside from that, I've played:
wakfu
secondlife
maplestory

[Tint]

i played a small MMO called Biosfear for 4 Years until they shut down the servers (Savage Eden in US, Laghaim is the original name)

then i played Phantasy Star Portable 2, wich is not really an MMO, but somehow it is ^^ too bad it was my first Phantasy Star but also the last they released in the west. servers shut down in 2015 :/

because PSO2 didn't came to the west i begun with FF14. and last year i startet with Elite: Dangerous

[ErryK]

My MMO history is pretty short:
Guild Wars
Guild Wars 2
Perfect World
Blade and Soul
Rift
Revelation Online
Black Desert Online

I played XIV after Guild Wars 2, before that I pretty much spent about 4 years in Guild Wars 2. Everything else lasted less than a year, or about a year. I don't like playing many MMOs, they are either too PvP-centric or I was too young to care about playing optimally (mostly talking about Guild Wars 2 here).

[FelixDaCat]

I started with an old school FTP Korean cestpool of a game called Knight Online. I then played WoW during WotLK and then started FF14 when Stormblood came out last summer.

[cougarel]

I see no one which played Lineage 2. History begins in 2004 and ends in 2012 as a lineage 2 player since i really wanted to go full fledge hardcore on gw2 .

Besides the 8 years with lineage 2 : aion, tera , wow,eso for a bit and then when searching for an alternative for wow, found FFxiv in 2015. Since then stuck with it , never unsubbing.

[Ntol]

Runescape, which also was my first online experience, for like a year.
Then WoW from launch to a year ago, beginning as a hardcore raider and slowly turning into casual as life changed.
I also played SWTOR at launch, and have returned a couple months to continue the story. Its slow pace keeps me off despite loving the true Star Wars.
As WoW began becoming stale I dabbled on some other MMORPGs, like LotRO, DCUO, Neverwinter, and more recently Tera, but none of them managed to hook me up, at least for a long time. In fact I didn´t reach max level in any of them.

The one thing that I find FFXIV does better than its rivals is the story. Compared to this game´s, WoW´s story looks written by a child, what with the constant retcons and characters doing 180º personality flips. FFXIV has a mature and coherent story that keeps you hooked up to the end. SWTOR also has a good story, but its pace is much slower.

[Tristann]

Anarchy Online (Meta-Physicist, 220, AI 28 (no 30 ), Inferno Perma Key Holder), yeah sums up quite some hours of gameplay.

[KageTokage]

My MMO progression was Ragnarok Online > Star Wars Galaxies > various random F2P MMOs I don't care to remember > WoW > PSO2 > XIV

[K1tt]

Im a console player so it was dc universe online at first. I really loved it but it became increasingly toxic over time (the hero faction more so than the villain side ironically), and filled with rmt spam in chat everywhere!

My League (dcuo version of fc) moved to eso and I went with them. That game was fun, very immersive and with the scaling they just added you can play a new expansion pack on release and not worry about gearing up or staying on the gear treadmil at all really. But my guilds were all very pvp focused and I prefer pve so I redownloaded ffxiv (id previously bought arr at launch but didnt enjoy it) and have been here over 3 years now I think.