You can bring back 2 features from 1.0 what would it be?

- More seamless connectivity between zones (aka no loading black screen)
- Fluid animations in cutscenes... and overall just fluid animations.

I never played 1.0 but watching some videos, I really like how smooth movement looked back then. I assume this had to be changed since combat is much more snappy and faster now, but there were small little details to the 1.0 animations, like your character swaying their hips as they're about to turn, or coming to a natural stop when they go from walking/running to standing.

I just want elements to matter and to have corsair thats all

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Originally Posted by MaraD_

(1) Nail of the Heavens

thats it...
but if i MUST have a #2, I guess some of the removed locations as additional zones to the 2.0 areas.

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I mean it is back. Go do the Masked Carnival for blue mage. Its the main theme for it.

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Originally Posted by MicahZerrshia

The reason it's like this is because, like you said, the rewards do not match the effort. When it comes to innovating they also need to be a little more aware of the reward system. People treat things like corridor dungeons simply because there is no need not to. If SE tackled that issue and made effort more equal to reward, they could do a lot more in a variety of places. Dynamis in FFXI is the perfect example. You could go in there and skip packs as you go straight to the bosses and be in and out or you could farm the entire zone.

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I agree, honestly. And CLL is a perfect example; you can blast through the middle section and ignore the prisoners OR you can try to save them and get extra rewards. People do the prisoners because the rewards are worth it... at least for now. (Though let's be honest, if you've got a healer with Essence of the Ordained and Lost Death, it's not really 'try to save them', it's usually just "click a button and move on.")

But the thing is, we also have a lot of people in the community who complain about effort entailed in getting things. And I won't even say they're 100% wrong; the overall MMO crowd's age has pushed older, and those of us who were playing MMOs in high school and over summer break and whatnot now have fewer hours to put towards them due to Life. Which can make some people less eager to tackle a longer effort to grind things than they would've once been willing to do.

If they had groups of dungeons where various side rooms had challenges where you could earn tokens that could be exchanged for glamour items or something? (Think Bozjan Clusters here.) Sure, people would be willing to do it! Some folks would want to run the dungeons over and over and get those tokens so they could farm all the glamour (or mounts, or whatever).

But there'd be some folks who were like "I want to do other things in this game than run the same three dungeons, that glamour should be accessible in the Mog Station as well." And there'd be folks like "This is terrible. I just want to get through and to the end when I get that dungeon, and all these people want to make it take longer by going in these side rooms."

And I wouldn't be terribly surprised if eight months down the road, we have people who have already upgraded all their Resistance gear groaning about people rushing to save all the prisoners in CLL when they don't have to bother doing it.

There's no decision that SquareEnix can make that will please everyone; that's true of any game, but it's particularly true with MMOs where your play experience is directly dependent on everyone else's. And it's not even like there's a wrong way and a right way to play; I might want an instance with more depth and branches where I can dig in deeply, and someone else might want a shorter one so they can log off afterwards and go do something non-computer related.

And neither preference is wrong, but they are in conflict.

And I think it's a sign of the original MMO crew getting older that the balance of player preference (or at least, vocal player preference) seems to have shifted since 1.0... and that SquareEnix has adapted accordingly. Even if there are parts of 1.0's design philosophy I miss. (Albeit maybe not always the 1.0 implementations of that philosophy.)

1) Shards and crystals dropping from everything.
2) The original lala walk.
3) Tears for Mor Dhona

#1 It's a toss between better cutscenes or better dungeons. The cinematography was certainly better for some cutscenes in 1.0, and weren't you rewarded extra for doing more(tasks?) in certain dungeons?

#2 I totally miss the run-stop animation(s). I know it wouldn't be able to come back in quite the same way, because of how content is run now, but PSO2 doesn't seem to have issue with it.

run stop animations were great, did they explain why they took it out?

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Originally Posted by jojocrew

run stop animations were great, did they explain why they took it out?

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Because it interfered with efficient spell casting in battle (it's called 'animation lock', where you couldn't cast until you stopped moving completely), taking that extra second or two to come to a stop when moving around in a battle just annoyed people too much (and that was on top of 1.0's slower battle system).

So it's removal was a concession to better gameplay, as a means of speeding up battles (I mean, we're still getting people complaining the battles still are "too slow" in ARR, so nothing much has changed on that front.).

Once again, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

just commenting some popular points:

-mocap for cutscenes
There were some clips during one of the 14 hour streams showing that motion capture is used (again?) since at least Heavensward, although mostly for combat animations (both player and enemy). But there were also some cutscene examples, like Exdeath getting succ'd into the void or the Lise vs Fordola duel during early Stormblood MSQ.
Also cutscene quality has already improved greatly during the last few patches, gotta give that to the devs

- butts
that's still just different (better?) character lightning. Miqo'te butts were just as flat in 1.0, you just had some extra shading emphasising the curves and thus making it look bigger

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- butts
that's still just different (better?) character lightning. Miqo'te butts were just as flat in 1.0, you just had some extra shading emphasising the curves and thus making it look bigger

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The designer admitted they changed it and even explained why.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...=1#post1376748