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How Long Have You Played This Game? (self.finalfantasyxiv)
submitted 2 years ago by garretble to c/finalfantasyxiv
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I recently was thinking about how long I've been playing the game, and I'm curious about you lot.

I haven't done an official /playtime in a while, but this year being the 10th anniversary of A Realm Reborn, I recall my days and nights early in 2013 playing the beta tests on my PS3. At the time, I was living with a friend of mine, and we had two TVs in the living room going as we got our temporary characters up to level 20 over a weekend only for those characters to be wiped out.

But it was fun running through that early game, learning the systems, getting reminded why leaving WoW was a good idea (not a single person asked about my DPS! ...in maybe my whole time in this game, actually.).

So after ten years of playing my favorite little Lala, I look forward to seeing where this story goes from here.

How about you all? What's your story?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't have a /playtime to hand but my account's been about since the 1.0 days, I have my legacy characters over on the USA servers while I play in the EU, Picked up ARR on launch, took a break in the middle of ARR and came back for 2.5, took another break around 3.2 until 3.4, and I've been back since!

Played Pugilist in 1.0

Mained Paladin 2.0 to 4.5

Been a DRK main (for static reasons) since 5.0's launch, but my true main is MNK which I do everything else with!

[–] garretble 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've always been a little envious of the 1.0 people (even though everything points to that game not being that great).

I would have loved to have been there when they shut the servers off to watch the world die.

Edit: I should also add that I've been a Scholar main since 2.0. It always felt right for my character, even though they've made so many changes over the years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Alas I didn't go much further than 1.0, I didn't even get out of Gridania! It really wasn't great. :(