I played FFXI from 2004 till 2011 (early) I was on Phoenix server for about 2 yrs then I moved to Ramuh.
As far as XIV goes I am on Mysidia and I like the game so far it's better now than it was when I first tried it out, plus it was free to play for a while. The game is slowly becoming like XI but I enjoy it to play once in a while with real life friends / fam. I play a "mithra" on XIV, I don't know their new proper names so you XI players know what I'm saying