Do you remember when...

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Originally Posted by SniperRifle

Remember Doblyns?

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How could I forget

Do you remember when there was no configurable key to select the nearest npc/mob?

Do you remember when headgear could not be hidden?

Do you remember when we didnt have keyboard shortcuts to start specific chats (like CTRL+L for linkshell)?
This leads to: do you remember when keyboard chat shortcuts were introduced but CTRL+R selected the last person we talked to and not the one a /tell was received from?

Do you remember when there were no macros (before second beta phase or something like that)?

Do you remember when you had to face a monster to start casting a spell against it?

Do you remember when a levequest difficulty could not be adjusted after starting it?

Do you remember when chat logs opacity could not be modified and we only had 1 chat window?

I could go on... :P

Everybody has mentioned such good ones already!

My favorites that people have already thought of:
- When we had to repair underwear and it would only go to 75%.
- When we had the yellow or red gear damage icon on the screen almost all the time and couldn't figure out what item need repairs.
- Having to add every ingredient to the list, every single time when crafting. ><

Plus:
- Did you ever sell shards to an NPC for 8 gil a piece because you didn't know what they were for and were totally broke? (but maybe that was just me)
- When crystals and shards were not made from fish?
- When Iron Baghnakhs, many a pugilist's dream weapon, cost an arm and a leg? I broke the piggy bank and paid 1 million gil for Iron Baghnakhs shortly after the recipe was first discovered. ^^;

And a couple of small, more recent ones:
- When standing up from a sitting position would cause your character to do this weird bounce thing?
- When you could buff someone who was crafting, get them to look at you, and kid them to "Please concentrate on your crafting!"

Remember when crafting leves were not sorted by rank?

Remember when you had to choose how many items you wanted to put into recipe box instead of it automatically putting one in when you click on it?

Remember when getting 200-300 SP per synthesis was GOOD.

Remember the first time a toad sucked you in with it's tongue? My reaction = HOLY ****?! =P

Remember when r10 locals would send you to Camp Blue Fog?

Remember the mole trains @ Camp Tranquil?

you had to take 40 stacks of arrows with you for an afternoons worth of grinding

Remember when a PS3 release was actually happening?

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Originally Posted by FilthyDisco

On the 21st day of September?

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Love was changing the minds of pretenders.

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Originally Posted by Zetsumei_Tsunarashi

Remember when people said :

"it'll get better just wait for closed beta"
"it'll get better just wait for open beta"
"it'll get better just wait for launch"
"it'll get better just wait til after first few patches"
"it'll get better just wait for new team to get up to speed"
"it'll get better just give it a year"
"it'll get better just wait for ps3 launch" ............

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Do you remember that the game actually did get better after each of those times?

Unless you're a grumpy grouch like Visch, I bet you do.

Remember when Tanaka said that he believed that people would like Surplus?

Remember when the game ran off an ATB system? (Alpha)

Remember the laggy stamina gauge?

Remember when you couldn't target gates because everyone was on it? (Alpha)

Remember hitting the 1 button various times to just attack?

Remember when THM's were the best healers?

Remember when the hardest content was Faction NM's?

Remember when guildleves were 48 hours for 8? (Now 4 per 12 hours with stored points, gone a long way!)

Remember people feeling accomplished by finding a piece of armor or weapon that actually wasn't weathered gear all the way up to 15-20?

Remember when the game originally used required rank? (Alpha/Beta)

Remember you only got to test the game for 4 hours? 3 to get yourself situated.

Remember when Fleet of Foot didn't work?

Remember we were not outside of La Noscea? (Alpha/Early Beta)

Remember when high level mobs were were put in inconvenient spots? (Passageway between lv.1 and lv.10 Thanalan zone with ants.)

Remember in alpha and beta, you had no idea that sheep in the lv.1 critter area could one shot you if you hit it?

Remember you had to wait at least 5 seconds before you could switch between Active/Passive mode?

Remember when Dodos were the biggest threat to Eorzea?

Remember when guildleves were the main aspect of the game? :(

Remember when mages could tank major events?

Remember when SE apologized for letting the game get released in the state it was in?

Remember when "My Little Chocobo" was the best name ever?

Remember when you were in disappoint when you saw the Musketeer's guild, and no Musketeer yet?



I could go on, but this really shows how far they really have gotten in a year, keep up the good work team!

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Originally Posted by Velhart

Remember when high level mobs were were put in inconvenient spots? (Passageway between lv.1 and lv.10 Thanalan zone with ants.)

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Those ants are still there. But I remember the Pieste that liked to hang right outside the Ul'dah gate. I wish it was still there, kinda.

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Originally Posted by Velhart

Remember when Dodos were the biggest threat to Eorzea?

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Now they're only the biggest threat to Jinrya Geki.

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

Those ants are still there. But I remember the Pieste that liked to hang right outside the Ul'dah gate. I wish it was still there, kinda.

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I see, never see them on the way anymore, so I just assumed they were gone. By the way, go east from Ul'Dah enough and you will find some nice lv.75+ ones. :D

Remember when side quests didn't exist?

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

I remember when primary gathering spots had an indicator that told you you were next to the item hot spot.

I remember when bold synthesis gave very generous quality gains and hitting a +1 or +2 wasn't that difficult from NQ mats. Bold synthesis? Remember when bold synthesis was called bold synthesis?

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BOLD?! Well hell yeah I remember bold synthesis!

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Originally Posted by Eekiki

BOLD?! Well hell yeah I remember bold synthesis!

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Haha how do you go from bold to careful, you know, two completely opposite ideas haha

Remember the forums before the first person decided my little ponies was cool and made a signature and then everybody else thought it was cool because that person thought they were cool with their cool pony signature?

Peperidge farm remembers...

No for serious... Remember when my little pony was cool though? For real?
Yea, me neither!

How has no one said this yet...

Remember when you couldn't sort your inventory???

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Originally Posted by MeowMeow

No for serious... Remember when my little pony was cool though? For real?
Yea, me neither!

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Nonsense. Everyone is a closet brony, just waiting to discover their element of harmony.

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Originally Posted by Radiator

How has no one said this yet...

Remember when you couldn't sort your inventory???

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Ahaha! Yeah! And you had to transfer stuff to your retainers to combine stackable items.

To agree with other points, the interface was so horrible in the past compared to what it is now.. not sure how I even kept playing. It took forever to do one simple task. Now, In general it takes about half the time and frustration to synthesis, equip gear/actions....well everything. Between lag and GUI there has been a dramatic improvement.

Remember when you told all your friends in FF11 you were going to move to FF14 and they laughed at you? I remember :( I don't want to go back to FF11 cuz I don't want them to say I told you so... It's so bad that Will Smith wrote a song about it:

Now this is the story all about how,
We got ripped off and taken for clowns.
I'd like to take a minute, so just sit right there
I'll tell ya all about how SE gave it to us in the derrière

In Vana'diel I began my adventurin' ways,
The Bhaflau Thickets is where i spent most'a my days.
Skillin' up and maxin' out my merits,
hopin' that one day I'd get an adaberk so i could wear it.
When a couple of devs rolled up in a wagon,
And said yo losers, come to XIV and fight some HD dragons!
So I packed my bags and got ready to sail,
To a place called Eorzea where Galkas don't have tails.

I whistled for the choco-bus and when it got near,
the seats were covered in pee and the driver was drinkin' beer.
I thought wow, maybe this isnt such a good plan,
but then said nah forget it, I'm off to a new land!

We rolled up in Thanalan an hour later,
and i yelled yo driver, this sh**'s copy & pasted!
I shoulda listened to those reviewers and raters,
this game isn't even that fun when I'm wasted!

Remember when we had 2000+ hp at R20.

remember when everyone was waaaah waaaah

oh wait....

I am really hoping that one day FF XIV will be awesome and we will look back at all these things and laugh. We will be proud we stuck with the game and helped make it into something great. I just wish that would happen sooner.

Do you remember when you had to successfully block to get sentinel sp?

Do you remember when you could have 15 people in your party?

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Originally Posted by Technolust

Do you remember when you could have 15 people in your party?

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I miss those 15 man grind parties :(

Do you remember when market wards didn't have names and only the first 2 ever had any people in them.

I loved those days!

Remember when we had almost no monsters in the fields right at release and all those R1-10 players ran to the first orange circle that appears on the map in order to claim it.

Good times..

Do you remember when logging outside of Ul'dah and running into that Sand Pieste?

Or farming wind shards southeast of Limsa in La Noscea, pushing sheep through fences or off cliffs until Gobbue threw a massive rock at your head for 3900+ damage?

when everyone used to afk on the steps at the inside gate of uldah with their bazaars up and you'd have to check them 1 at a time for an item usually resulting in buying gear that was no were near suited for you.

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Originally Posted by syntaxlies

when everyone used to afk on the steps at the inside gate of uldah with their bazaars up and you'd have to check them 1 at a time for an item usually resulting in buying gear that was no were near suited for you.

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People still do that.

When you had to type in one-word sentence fragments when crafting because you would lose everything you typed if you didn't.

You nock an arrow.

You nock an arrow.

You nock an arrow.

I don't even own a bow. :-/

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Originally Posted by quantumsaint

You nock an arrow.

You nock an arrow.

You nock an arrow.

I don't even own a bow. :-/

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Remember when you could do that more than twice?

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Originally Posted by Velhart

Remember when mages could tank major events?

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Remember when THM was the most broken class in the game?

Oh wait...

Remember when you couldn't target anything including treasure chests and players?

Remember when you open your menu every time you were by a door to open it?

Remember when you died and didn't know what to do because you didn't get a system message or a return on your screen?

Remember when you could see how many people were online in each area?

Remember when Market Wards had no search feature and you had to search all of them manually for hours to have a chance at finding something resembling what you wanted? And even then you had to go through several menus and to see each retainers wares?

Remember when aetherytes were suppose to be gathering locations for people to meet and quest together?

Remember when death had no consequences what so ever... ?

Remember when you got the best SP by failing and doing the same leves every reset?

Remember when we didn't have CTRL+R to reply back to long names?

Remember when you had to compete with many other players for every little squirrel and critter in the beginning levels? And how you needed so much more SP to lvl

Remember when you stopped gaining SP if you played too much... ?

Remember when we had nothing else to do but leves and grinding. No side quests, Task Boards, Dungeons, NM's or faction NM's?

Remember how we were suppose to pay for this game after November 2010?

Remember when the game could crash in the middle of a synthesis or if you joined a group?

Oh yea and remember when it was possible to crash the entire server by putting an item in your bazaar?

Yep, I do... I found it! here it is:

"A rare issue wherein an item data would get corrupted during a server outage has been addressed.
* We have confirmed that if a player attempts to put this corrupted item into their bazaar, it would cause the server to go down. We are currently in the process of addressing this issue, but until then, we have temporarily restricted the bazaar function for players with these corrupted items. We will be providing an update on this situation once we have a better idea on when the the actual fix will take place. We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...08cc30c22508de

lol

Do you remember when Feint was 250TP only and people called NERF it even though it was just a R20 ability anyone can get?

When people actualy spoke in /s and it wasn't like logging into a funeral every day -_-



Ps: If anyone has a suggestion for a good social server please for the love of god let me know, I'm dieing here.

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Originally Posted by Vinncent

When people actualy spoke in /s and it wasn't like logging into a funeral every day -_-



Ps: If anyone has a suggestion for a good social server please for the love of god let me know, I'm dieing here.

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A good chunk of Besaiders (Besadians?) use a site called fantaji.com Might wanna give that place a shout and see if anyone will take you in.

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Originally Posted by Akira_Tenshi

People still do that.

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not in mysidia