Thread: A shout out to the 1.0 players still here today

I had the urge to try and find at least one picture, since I know I didn't save many. I already mentioned it, but I just loved this so much. Taking the ferry, feeling like I was actually journeying someplace.

By the way, since someone asked about the legacy chocobo, it also has a tattoo.

Since people are sharing screenies, I'll share some!




I just realized how far some of these people were standing from the node, and were still able to mine. XD

Originally Posted by Gemina

I do think some things would work great though. *cough* Hamlets *cough* Dawn Vigil *cough*

Of all the scrapped concepts and things from 1.0 that I found to be generally awful, I feel like Hamlets could have been really good. I like the idea of DoH/L players assisting the DoW/M.

Ah, 1.0 players are people I'm thankful for. They kept FFXIV going long enough that I got to play it, even if it wasn't the same by the time I finally got too.

I'd been here all along in another world, in FFXI. I very much wanted to play FFXIV, but I was joining the USN at the time, and didn't have the money/space/knowledge to get a PC. I'd been told it would come out on PS3 eventually(a pipe dream for the original XIV's tech demands, of course), so I was content to wait for that.

I sort of lived vicariously through my Ex for XIV 1.0 experience. I don't have any of the screenshots she shared with me saved anywhere, but she kept me apprised of the goings on of 1.0. She was in the Alpha and the Beta, and kept going back to play it here and there while also playing XI with me.

It'd be kind of cool if they brought in some more time travel, and let folks go back in time to how the zones were before and such. Like WoTG for XI, except better because the zones in XIV's past were really rather different. Wouldn't really capture the experience, but I'd still love for everyone still playing XIV to experience it somehow (very much including me).

This just became my new wallpaper, THANK YOU )))

Back on Zalera, I chatted to a mentor who had gone to a Fanfest, he told me of a conversation she had had with one of the SE staff, they all said the same thing.

It was a roll the dice, one shot gamble. If it worked, it worked, if it didnt , they were done.

The entire franchise would take a huge hit. When we are talking millions of dollars and an entire range of games, what Yoshi pulled off was a gutsy, daring move that I doubt any other dev would have had the nerve to try.

I often wonder how he sold it to the board..getting THEM to sign off on it would have been an achievement in itself. I wish people would cut the crap about Yoshi, no game is perfect, no one will ever fit the needs and wants and desires of every bloody player..but this will always be true.

He will be the ONLY dev, the ONLY game director in all of gaming history who had the nerve to hold his course and make it work.

What we see now is testament to his love for the game and its players.