I started with FFXI in 2004. I couldn't really get into it but I tried to force it since it was FF. That only lasted a few months. I started wow in mid-2006 when it was still Vanilla. I played a warrior. Badly. It was fun but I wasn't much of an MMOer at the time so it was sporadic. Then in early 2007 Aracel and Chemical got me playing again as a mage. They didn't play for very long after that but I randomly kept up with it and got to where I could actually play my class alright in BC. Between moving around and a few military deployments I kinda abandoned the game until 2009. Freya got me playing again as a ret pally with some of her family. They didn't play much longer after that. (Was I cursed?) I didn't stop playing. I got good at it. I learned to raid well in ICC. I was godly in cata, ranking top ret pally on my server, especially in the Dragon Soul patches where I rarely found someone who could match my DPS. I also lead a second raid team as a mage through DS and occasionally tanked a third as a warrior. After DS in 5.1 I stopped playing my mage and warrior very much but kept up with my pally. That continued until around last October when 5.4 came out. A few of my core raid team stopped playing and I just didn't enjoy the patch enough to find new people. I haven't played much since then although last Saturday I did text a bunch of my old buddies and we logged on to mess around. It was a lot of fun. About mid-February earlier this year I started playing FFXIV. By the time my free trial was up I was geared with top token purchases and first-gen raid gear enough that I could get into end-game raiding content. I played for another week, until the day after 2.2 came out. I just didn't feel like grinding through raiding content to get better gear.

When Warlords of Draenor comes out I may start raiding in wow again, or I may not. I'll at least play it to level up some toons.