![]() | Fun story to tell about my time with FFXIV. I got to beta test 1.0 waaaay back in the day. This link has some screenshots of when I made my character, who I still play with today unchanged from the day I made her. The pictures attached are pretty fun too though. We all know 1.0 wasn’t great. I paid and played up until the servers went down and then was pretty sad I had to wait for ARR. At that time I worked for a gaming website part time, mostly as a forum mod but I was also the only one on staff who was excited for ARR. So when SE reached out to invite someone from the staff to come out to San Francisco to try ARR out and interview Yoshi before the game launched I was picked to go. The event was a lot of fun, Yoshi was there with the SE community team and a translator. We got to play the game on PC, run a dungeon (I think it was Tam Tara Deepcroft) as a party, and then talk to Yoshi about the game. We were given a cool card that flipped out to be a usb drive that had promotional assets for us to use for when the embargo was lifted. I asked Yoshi to sign my collectors edition notebook and he gave me his business card. It feels like a lifetime ago. I played until a few months before Heavensward launched, I have 3 kids and my son had just been born so I really didn’t have time for MMO’s. I returned last December and got caught up in time for Dawntrail and it’s just incredible how great the game is, even between the time I quit and now so many changes for the better have been made. My Free Company was maintained by my good friend who I met in FFXI and his wife, our company house is still in Mist, Ward 1 thanks to them. If you are ever on Ultros and see Wint Aru running around say hi, I love meeting new people and adding to my friend list ![]() submitted by /u/Wintaru [link] [comments] |
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