I Miss 1.0

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

That landscape doesn't look remotely as interesting as what's there now, though...

I'm grateful 1.0 existed, but I like the changes made since.

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I feel the opposite, but I also love bigger zones even if there's some copy > paste terrain. I would have preferred this over smaller, more detailed zones. But we got the latter, and then expanded zone sizes from HW onward. So I guess that's fine. Shadowbringers is honestly the only expansion where I feel they tried to push the envelope though. Bigger zones and a good bit more detail.

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Originally Posted by Alleluia

That landscape doesn't look remotely as interesting as what's there now, though...

I'm grateful 1.0 existed, but I like the changes made since.

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If anything it looks WORSE then what we have now. Everything looks so stupidly small.

I miss a lot of 1.0.

The graphics, the animations, the gear sets having FFXI like bonuses.

Sadly it was all thrown away to make the game run on weaker hardware and have a straight vertical progression.

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Originally Posted by Insertcoins

If anything it looks WORSE then what we have now. Everything looks so stupidly small.

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This reminds me when Yoshi-P first started working on the 1.0 game. He took the beetles and rats and just blew them up in scale. Could tell back then I wasn't going to like a lot of the changes coming.

"I miss classic wow and want it back"

"Good news guys we're bringing classic wow back!"

"Oh.. well, life's crazy, I guess, oh shucks oh well" And never touches classic wow.

Same energy.

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Originally Posted by DevilsDontFly

"I miss classic wow and want it back"

"Good news guys we're bringing classic wow back!"

"Oh.. well, life's crazy, I guess, oh shucks oh well" And never touches classic wow.

Same energy.

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The main thing Classic WoW has going for it is that it isn't modern WoW. That's a pretty low bar, however. Same energy, the difference is that FF XIV 1.0 was awful enough that it had to be shut down and it will probably never see the light of day again. Meanwhile FF XIV in its current form is actually successful.

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Originally Posted by Powercow

Wha- no, 1.0 was nothing like TTYD. Where the heck did you get that notion?

I do think 1.0's combat system had some potential, but it was not really more strategic and it certainly wasn't engaging. Even if it had been properly tuned where Feint wasn't the best thing in the game and you miss chance was under 70%, I still don't think 1.0's style would be better than what we have now. And this is coming from someone who really loves FFXI Classic's slow-as-hell combat.

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Oh wow. Someone else that thought 1.0s combat system had potential. I never really ran into an accuracy issue unless I was out of my weapons sweet spot. Many didn't realize all weapons had sweet spots, even though the games webpage at the time showed it to them. The stamina cost to most actions also helped differentiate sustained vs burst classes.

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Originally Posted by Enla

Because they want this game to have low-end specs to allow for a wider swatch of players, and that level of texture fidelity is /way/ too intensive for no pay off. They literally went over this at the last Japanese Fanfest when the asset team got to have a panel and they explained why the original version of the Crystarium that was teased before 1.0 dropped was illogical. (And for exactly the reason I listed. They literally made highly detailed light bulbs /WITH/ animated filaments in them that no one could see - to give you an idea of how extra they were about all the small details.) At some point graphical fidelity for the sake of graphical fidelity is a case of diminishing returns in MMOs.

Edit: Found the fanfest screenshot thread on reddit. Scroll down a ways and it's summarized.

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if not that then what about an hd texture pack? or higher quality meshes? textures and meshes that don't look like they were drawn on with crayon?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mIiPApNMpHw/maxresdefault.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uVqLXUx.png

yoship said it best...

NIGHTMARE!

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Originally Posted by grinkdaboy

if not that then what about an hd texture pack? or higher quality meshes? textures and meshes that don't look like they were drawn on with crayon?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mIiPApNMpHw/maxresdefault.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uVqLXUx.png

yoship said it best...

NIGHTMARE!

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An opt-in texture pack would be something most people could agree with and indeed most people I've met want one desperately for the ARR zones especially. LoTRO already does that and because it's opt-in, no one has an issue with it.

No OP you dont miss 1.0.
You're just saying that because you're not happy with current changes to the game.
1.0 got scrapped because it was trash.

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Originally Posted by Kaethra

The videos I've seen of 1.0 is the casters cast Fire or something once every 5-10 seconds, melee seem to be autoattacking, and everyone not melee were stacked on top of each other and hardly moved. Oh and occasionally they sent a ranged up some stairs to kill a meteor once in a while, but that was for the final boss.

That's not strategic. That's boring. That's and I quote the president of SE: Boring enough to damage the entire final fantasy franchise.

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A bit hyperbolic.

Casting a large powerful spell every 15 seconds makes sense. The 1.0 ending cinematic had the BLM focusing his magic. I’d love to have that fantasy.

It would also be amazing for PvP. Set up a 15 second cc chain with sleep and flare IV for 90% of hp.