Anyone From The Old Days Still Around?

started 2004, been playing ever since. racked up 1800 hrs actual play time (no afk time). During my time on ffxi ive split from my fiancee, moved house twice, got engaged again, had 2 sons and had 3 promotions at work.

gone are the days of 14hr stints on the game, but i still enjoy an hour or two when i get chance

@2000 days here. Played since I was 15. College, marriage, adopted kid, one in the oven now. I still get in 14 hours sometimes on the weekend. I love this game and always will.

Ah, see, I think most of us were thinking 2003-2004. By late 2005 yes, you could do 1-75 in a week with power-leveling aid and a group of coordinated players.

In pickup parties, still no. But once people started figuring out COP zones things started to pick up.

I started ffxi in 2012 and have yet to quit the game. I did however move servers from Quetz to Odin in 2017. :x

Started on PS2 beta (Still have my beta kit) then went onto PS2 on release date. Moved to PC when it was released. Then jumped to the Xbox 360 release. Played all the way to WOTG. Quit about 6 to 8 months after that expansion. Didn't like them spoon feeding me content I already paid for and they called them "updates". Came back about a year ago and still playing.

Seems out of order.

Beta > PC fall 2003 > PS2 3/2004 (I specifically remember buying it so my (now-wife) and I could both play).

They all moved to Asura if they still play. Quetz died really fast in the skirmish era.

been here since 2002

Heh I remember them linkshell. When I was on midgard I was in Valor. Later changed name to virtus.

zEUs LS here

@3000days playtime, took a break for 3months, hated it

I was a member of United Dynamis and Pandavas for a couple of years. I was there when the LS was mass jailed during Vrtra fight.



I suck at posting.

Started playing around 15 years ago, played for nearly 10 years before quit for nearly 5 years, came back 2-3 weeks ago and loving game now. so many quality of life changes for the better.

Remember playing blm in dyna and de levelling every week, was so hard for blm to make the level back and get buffer for next ls events.

Remember the dune parties living and dying by the sword.

Remember the first time running to Jeuno and dying multiple time on way.

remember the sky and sea end game events and everyone getting lost on sky teleports, due to random chance to be taken elsewhere.

1393 days here (I did not bazzar much) and was playing this on PS2 Release 03/04. Back when AOL dial up was all I could get from motels while working away from home.

I remember early on zoning to west Ron and seeing a slew of dead people just before I died to a mess of pissed off orcs (before ***depoped) LOL

Carbuncle has been my home for the past 15 or so years and I have met some great people over those years and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Started when my wife was pregnant with our first son back in 2003. Seven kids later and an awesome career I'm still playing off and on. Seraph>Bismark>Asura. Can't wait until the redo abby for empy stuff abby if they do.

Since PC release here.

Seven kids. Wow. I have a hard time finding time to play with my one and only baby girl.

Still in game started 2005 took break 2013-2016 moved to Asura cuz server population.

Started on Shiva Server in 2004 and been playing ever since, same server, with my friend Generalramuh who's been here for the long haul. Was playing Diablo II / Starcraft Broodwar / Dungeon Siege before switching to this game.

Things I remember:
First party was in Konstadt Highlands, pulled a sheep, party put to sleep = Dead Party.
Zoning into the Dunes and seeing a bodies carpeting the dunes. and those few scattered in the cave with those freakin bats.
Garlaige Citidel, where i loved pulling on my thief, mercing mobs with Viperbite, and shouting "Trains Coming Zone!" as a horde of bats chased someone down.
Getting 2 Peacock Charm's dropping back to back selling them for 44 mil and buying some rocking gear, before BOT's and RMT ruined the camp.

Hi Krenna.

2004 era. On and off player, usually played 3-5 hours on event days, otherwise I was pretty casual. Occasionally will still log on during the return campaigns just to get my nostalgia kick. :)

Highlights from the early days for me:
- I loved me some Garrison and Eco-Warrior!
- Valkrum Dunes parties were always full of fun and death.
- Having a lv 30 paladin help me get my items I needed for my subjob, then wanting to become a Paladin.
- Leveling Paladin to be my first 75 job! Took almost a year because max EXP on a Chain 5 was 300.
- Finding an amazing LS (SteelSyndicate) to run with through CoP, ToAU and some Abyssea.

Tricks I used along the way:
- Creating characters over and over to get fame for the Aspir scroll quest. Was a really easy way to make 100k-150k in an hour, which was a lot back in 2005!
- Using a two-handed weapon in battle, then disengaging and re-engaging to bypass the delay. Also worked if you swapped weapons right after the attack animation. You could kill stupid quick before they patched it in like 2006 or so.

Had a bit of nostalgia the other day. Went to Crawler's Nest for the first time in I don't even know how long for the RUN artifact quest just because I remember where the Strange Apparatus is (and remember that hidden hall being a nice xp camp). Zoned in and sure enough, got the cutscene for the escort quest.

since 2002, don't have plans to go anywhere...

I started during 2002 and play on and off still :)

omg Alvin! How ya been!


Taberif! I remember you! Hope you've been well! :)

Ty for reminding me this!

I'm from the days when a single earth crystal cost like 20,000 gil. And we were lucky to have it !

I started in around 2003, I did take a nearly 5 year break but back in game daily playing catch up.

Same as some other people said no longer have playtime i once did, but still enough time after work for a few hours crafting/killing.