The Rising Event! 1.0 Experience

Thanks very much for this, I am quite sad I came in 2.0 and didn't try 1.0.
I really wish we could get some invasions and stuff like that even in our version, because I really miss some kind of danger in the world and the need to group up..

Some live events before expansion would be epic!

AHHH! The feeels!!! Hecking the bed for relics, trying to get around Uldah without dying a TERRIBLE death, Goobues EVERYWHERE, crying during that final cutscene only to end up in hysterics when the server crash message popped up! Making great friends in the last couple days, not knowing if you would end up on the same server. The game had TONS of problems, but for all its flaws, 1.0 was really great and I leave FFXIV with some wonderful memories, true friendships, and some really poor quality screen shots! I have NO clue how I managed to played 1.0 on a LAPTOP...

http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...0747846ab9.jpg

http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...70370011ab.jpg

.... I'll have to break out lappy 1.0 to get the rest of my pictures....

I started in 2.0 myself. It's always interesting learning about the 1.0 story and gameplay elements.
Thank you to everyone sharing their screenshots and experiences. :D

It's a shame we don't get to see similar events unfold in more recent times. I'd love to see the game's antagonists feel like they're a considerable threat and actually cause a fair bit of damage instead of being confined to instances, cutscenes or just blocked by the 'Cid', 'Hydaelyn' or 'Warrior of Light' plot devices.

Especially since this is a Final Fantasy game and whilst many people liked the likes of Cloud there's plenty of people who prefer the likes of Rufus and Sephiroth.

Bring 1.0 textures back.

Great thread! I didn't play 1.0 because I wasn't into mmos at the time (ARR is my first). Your dramatic and often humerous retelling of those events make me wish I could have been there fighting to the last. Thanks for sharing your memories =]

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Originally Posted by Aryalandi

I wish I could have played 1.0, i will always regret not having a good enough computer/internet connection for it, it kind of hurts honestly knowing that at every turn there is more stuff like this that I never got to experience just because I couldn't afford a monster computer and only had dialup internet x.x especially when I did infact own a physical copy of the game...

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That reminds me of when star wars galaxies and wow came out. I couldn't play because my internet sucked so bad (believe me I tried it was unusable)

The town invasion looks fun! lol!

I tend to only hear good things from those that stayed throughout the end. On one hand I really wish that I had managed to stick around until the server closed, but on the flip side, I may be horribly sad over what the game evolved into with ARR..



But yeah, babies don't typically let you have much spare time, so the game had to go for a couple of years. :p

Wow, they should just really try and make a de-make in SNES graphics of 1.0's story and events.

The biggest advantage that 1.0 had to offer over 2.0 were the amazing graphics.

The weather effects were better, the textures were better, the cutscenes were better, hell us ladies had better butts too >.>

For instance...

Night time actually felt like it was night time..

http://i.imgur.com/y8f2Psn.jpg

and then when it rains and thunders...

http://i.imgur.com/8Pp5vAD.jpg

And when we had a sandstorm, it's like.. seriously, sandstorm!

http://i.imgur.com/lfUJE.jpg

and remember what it's like when you went outside in Limsa?

http://i.imgur.com/TtfatQS.jpg

Gaius was a hell a lot more bad ass...

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

I mean my god the VOICE though....

http://i.imgur.com/xG2LJ7Z.png

And speaking of Mor Dhona... I had to share this again, this really made Mor Dhona a great deal more chilling:

http://i.imgur.com/PRQ0TWj.jpg