2 years? how many of the original first batch still on?Follow

Been on since Beta.

I used to trade my silk thread to the dhalmel lady >.<

Xodious here. Been playing since about one day after the American release, lol, and here's a bit of a dramatic story on getting Final Fantasy XI.

I'm on my way home from school on the bus, writing down possible names for my character;

Xantious.....Xandious.....XODIOUS!

I tracked my packed for a week, and I was to get it one day after the release date. No big deal. Paid an extra $12 to get it shipped faster, so it's all good. My stop finally rolls around, and I sprint to my house....but no package on the door step? Instead, I find a little tag from FedEx, saying that they couldn't leave it on the doorstep, due to we were first-time shippers for them. I burst the door open and called their help line, and by goodness, they have a shipping office not 30 miles from where I live (the city is also where I go to school). So my dad gets home, and I told him the dillema, and he drove me up to Franklin (the city). He's all happy, while I'm having a mental breakdown for the most anticipated game of my life...

So we get to the office at about 5:00, and the lady at the front desk said "Well, our shipper will be out for a while, and there is no gurantee we can get you your package tonight, but I will call him and see what I can do." This crushed me. So I sat and waited in the lobby for a while....which turned to minutes....which eventually turned out to be 2 hours...

7:00 rolls around, and the lady motions for me to come over. I go over, expecting the worst, and in my great pleasure, she hands me a package....which was indeed Final Fantasy XI...


lol A little story on how I got the actual game. NOW, I'm a lvl 71 Samurai and leveled alot of other jobs so it's all worth it. Am I leaving anytime soon? NO WAY! :D :D

I've been here since the first week of NA release, so this is my third Halloween festival. I was very confused by all the NPCs running around in costume. I was confused by a lot of things, come to think of it... I started on Odin and ended up moving to Bismarck, where a friend of mine allegedly played, though I never once saw him there. When I was still on Odin, as a level 14 MNK from San D'oria, I convinced a level 24 WAR friend that Windurst could be found on the other side of Jugner Forest, which I deduced by looking at maps of Vana'diel, and that he needed to take me there. We made it all the way across La Theine with a few close calls, only to realize as soon as we zoned into Jugner that it was not, in fact, any place we wanted to be at all at our level.

I also have a story about buying FFXI. When I went to CompUSA to buy it, the clerk, in an attempt to either make conversation or get my phone number, asked if I was buying it for my boyfriend. I laughed in his face and informed him that there were, in fact, female gamers, and I hadn't missed an FF since VII. When I came back to buy FFX-2 not too much later, he asked me the exact same question.

We do exist. I swear.

Edited, Mon Oct 24 10:35:40 2005 by Byaina

I got the game the day it was released.

my first day's mistake....

assuming that the guards were actual guards, not there just for display.

I still think it's moronic that they won't budge when a newbie citizen gets slaughtered by an orc. And that said orcs won't touch em.

That's funny, I forgot that I also didn't know how to Auto Sort for quite a while

Been playing for about a year and a half.

The quick reference card (PC) didn't have the keys to move listed, so I was hitting every key to see what it did. For some reason I didn't try the numeric keypad though.

Didn't know how to logout.

Got lost in Windy.

No idea how many beastmen seals I dropped.

Enjoyed having the music on all the time.

Got my first invite to a party in the maze and replied "Sorry I really need the EXP points"

Map shows other members of your party? Yeah right, where? (Didn't learn how to do that until LV18.)

And my highest job is still only 58 after all this time.

I started two weeks after release because ebgames didn't have it yet.

I started as Sheek the elv female warrior stopped remade as Shinoda.

It took me 3 days to learn how to move. I was jamming on the keyboard completely ignoring the mouse (default config)

/laughed at my Galka friend who ran really slow from mobs. we thought that galka could not escape mobs becaue they were so slow, evlaan always looked like they were about to fall when they run, and taru were the equivilant of the flash.

yep, got here 3 days after PC release in the US.

noob moment, definetly dropping beastmen seal's cuz i was told they were used to pop NM (wtf are NM?) for higher level people, which i thought i would never be.

Been playing since day one of NA PC release. Met alot of ppl and seen alot of ppl come and go over time, learned alot and forgotten alot. I remember tossing hundreds of Beastmen Seals just because I couldn't npc sell em and who wanted something you couldn't make money off of anyway when you could sell your unsorted crystals to the npcs for 7+ gil each lol. Oh well, thousands of seals and crsytals later I still have new players randomly ask me the same questions I once was too afraid to ask anyone myself lol. Bought my first good axe from Selbina for 17k, which by the way took a ton of npc sells to make hehe before I finally realized there was something called the Auction House which sold the same friggin axe for like 5k lol. And by the way gameslave where the heck are ya man? Get back so we can skill up that GS of yours lol.

Not to sure but if I fall into the category of OG but I joined the earliest days of the NA release for PS2 that is.

Gameslave you helped me out with BM 9 or 8-? =p

I thought the NPC in the beginng Bastok scence really was talking to me. ^^;

i started playing on 11/4/2003, i also just missed the halloween event. i remember running around bastok mines and using mighty strikes cause i didnt know what it was. i also remember when i was level 8 and tried to go through korrokula tunnel, i had convinced myself it was the way to windurst. i remember the first time i hit level 30 and how much of a ***** it was to start over on an advanced job as level 1.

I started playing the day after the NA PC release, but I've been on Bismarck since December 2003. I had a character on Ramuh for about a month before I decided to make a new one; and here I am today.

Notable n00b accomplishment: Soloing subjobless White Mage to 15 in La Theine (duoing very little from time to time).