Day 7 - What game(s) did you come from, and why did you leave?
So before we found the obsession that is FFXIV, both my fiancé and I pretty avidly played SWTOR. I mained a juggernaut tank and he had a marauder that he was pretty damn good at. We both had our own raid groups (I got thrown into lead of mine due to circumstances not too long after joining it...Talk about a learning curve x.x ) and...we both pretty much burned out on it about the time the Shadow of Revan expansion hit.
What it all boiled down to was that his was a pretty dang serious raid group that was actually decent and mine was almost a joke in comparison that stressed me to no end. Every week was a complete struggle in filling slots or making any sort of forward progress on nightmare content. I don’t even know how long we were stuck on fucking Draxus if we did clear I think it was a miracle. Most of my own personal progression came from the other two main raid groups of our guild pulling me for help on things when they needed a tank.
So pretty much we both essentially spent months of suffering in Dread Palace and Fortress and lost our fight. He still refuses to seriously raid even now (to the point where he doesn’t want to do most EX primals) though I’m a little more open to it but have a completely incompatible schedule due to my job.
We dabbled a bit in a few MMOs after that. Guild Wars 2 and WoW come to immediate memory. And then we came to FFXIV and I don't think either of us regret it. At least I don't with all the wonderful people I've met and fun times had.