Where did you hear about Final Fantasy from?

[Ventus713]

I played KH so I became interested of FF series and I tried FF7:CC in PSP

[Kusanagi7]

if memory serves i watched my big brother play FF7 back in 97 or 98 n i started playing from there on which when i think about it now i feel old ._.

[Edax]

I played a bit of FFVII but never really got into it because I didn't have a Playstation. I'm not sure if I played Final Fantasy Tactics Advance or Kingdom Hearts first but I remember FFTA being the big AAA game for the GBA and it was truly a fun time, especially if I was stuck with my Mom when she was running errands. Oh and Crystal Chronicles came out around the same time for the Gamecube and I played that for awhile but never finished it. The game really depressed me, the idea that the world being covered in miasma and whole towns being destroyed because the Crystal caravan failed to return...Heavy stuff.

[Fhaerron]

17 November 1997, when FF VII (best game ever made in existence) was released in EU.


This game since beta but it was so horrible I quickly stopped and continued on WoW. Then I bought it in 2014 on Steam when it was in a (at the very least) 'acceptable playing state'.

Now I put in reasonable amount of hours and play it alongside WoW, Destiny 2 & The Division.

[ChaseNetwork]

As I recall it, I found a random web article about the relaunch of Final Fantasy XIV, and that I had about a week left to pre-order before the early access went live. I had been thirsty for a new mmo to sink my teeth into (I never even knew Final Fantasy XI or XIV were even things at the time, hell, I didn't really know anything about Final Fantasy at the time other than the Advent Children movie I liked). The only other mmo I had spent much time on was Fiesta Online, though that went to hell after it changed hands (seeing today's gaming community, I bet it would have become hell in a handbasket for RNG pay-to-win microtransactions). I had tried many other free mmo's, but they were all so obviously cookie cutter and uninteresting (And also being mass produced out of Korea by the same companies, I later found out).

So! I thought screw it. I called my local GameStop and preordered. (As of 2 years ago, I don't preorder games anymore, so GameStop ceased it's value to me).

[Tizzy_Tormentor]

I played Mystic Quest when I was a child, it was the first FF game released in EU iirc and I absolutely loved it, I then went on to play many more FF games, its probably the most important game series for me when I was growing up, I played them all with my sister and they were the best times growing up, especially FFIX, my favorite FF game.

[Jaggerjack]

Played Breath of fire 2 on Snes, i used to tell my brother these games are boring (RPG's) when i learned to play them i i did not know how to stack herbs in that game i kept farming and just filling my inv with like 20 herbs unstacked, he laughed his ass off and taught me later i got hooked, and then CT and then FF6, Then BANG PS1 Played all the good rpg's :O

[Enkidoh]

For the FF series, it was 1994 and my younger brother (who was always more cluey about games than I was), rented an import US NTSC copy of FFIV for the SNES ('FFII' as it was then known), and I was hooked. I loved it. But alas I had to wait a few more years til 1997 when FFVII was released before I was fully inducted into the FF series proper.

FFXIV, I had been hearing the rumours about a new FF MMO that SE had been working on since 2006 (which at the time I was heavily invested in FFXI). Then I saw the E3 2009 teaser trailer for it, and knew I had to play it. Alas, when FFXIV 1.0 was finally released, a combination of technical issues with my computer, billing issues with my debit card, and finally my father passing away suddennly all conspired against me playing FFXIV 1.0 until three months after launch. But it's many issues (compunded by ongoing technical problems with my PC at the time) meant I only played it sparingly, even after Yoshi took over after Tanaka was made to fall on his sword, although I was willingly to give Yoshi a chance with his grandoise '2.0' plans. I ensured I kept my account active after fees were finally turned on. I ensured I paid enough subscription to secure Legacy Campaign status (mostly because I wanted that sweet chocobo mount in 2.0 ).

And when the end to 1.0 finally came, I was finally hooked. And I've been hooked ever since, through the Alpha and Beta tests for ARR, and into full service itself, I've always keep my subscription active, and will always love this game forever.

[Hyperia]

My first exposure to FF was back when VII came out on the PlayStation, I played it with a friend on their system. After that, I lapsed until I had a terrible case of burnout on WoW back in the Pandaria days when they said no new content for 18 months. Once they announced that, I said I'm done and started looking for a new MMO. I eventually found XIV a few months after 2.0 launch and have been here ever since. I remember hearing something about XIV when I was playing WoW earlier but it was mostly about the disaster chatter and how nobody should go and try it. Knowing what I know now, I wish I had, but you know what they say, hindsight...

[Bigmoose85]

Final Fantasy I back in the 80s.