So long and good bye 1.0 you'll be missed?
I thought that since the old Lodestone of 1.0 is closing and the closure of the 1.0 forum it would be a good idea to do this to say good bye it.
So come all share your favorite or maybe terrible experienc, moments, fails, or LOL moments in 1.0.
Let's give these 2.0ers a taste of what the game was like back then.
1 the fact that Hilldibrand became so popular when he was originally supposed to make 1 appearance great character.
2 big seamless zones good idea bad in practice so much lag.
3 all the people who stuck it out to see the end of an era YAY.
4 the last job quest needed a full party in hopes to compleat it
5 to realize the red moon was a prison for Bahumat on the day after 1.0 ended EPIC.
Deleting the old Lodestone = Deleting our old Memories
Good evening.
I just read the news of the deletion of the old Lodestone and wasn't expecting it. I remember that when the new Lodestone was being introduced, it was said that the old one would be kept online in an archived form for all the posts that were written there. I was glad when I read this, because it showed respect for us and what we wrote as a community.
I thought that Yoshida and his team were aware that in the old Lodestone – that by the way I still consider superior to the new one for the way it was organised – there were several adventurers writing about their Journey in Eorzea. Back then I had more free time and I dedicated a lot of it to write about my Adventures. Still today, sometimes I just go back and read those posts, and look at the photos of past travels, explorations, fun times, and lost comrades.
I also made this forum post in the old forums to cover all my entries, both for the lore-interested adventurers, and to have my entries in one list as I sometimes liked to read them again...
Now, with this news that all those written memories will be erased, I feel like those like me that felt the soul and the good that the old Eorzea had, while the masses were bashing and insulting it, and who supported it from the start to the end, are kind of forgotten, as the dev team decided to delete all our memories.
Of course, the memories live within us, etcetera etcecera... but writing those posts and communicating on the Lodestone was part of the play: time spent there wasn't time spent in Eorzea, and for a reason.
I don't have much time to play anymore, I returned briefly for holidays, and now that holidays are over, I won't renew my subcription. Nostalgia is mainly what makes me return every now and then: see Eorzea again, and some of the old faces from Bodhum and Excalibur. Even if now it turned into “A Rush Reborn”, where everything is done with the “Haste” status effect on with most adventurers only thinking at the goal and reaching it as fast as possible, even if now the Thirteenth deity Randomness rules the aether, even if now I see it turned into “one of the masses”... I still enjoy the small things I enjoyed in the old Eorzea.
As much as it is a virtual game world, in the past having this amusement proved a Great pastime in a few difficult moments of my Subliman life, when after returning from certain hellish places I really needed a diversion, and Eorzea was there. And for this, I'll always be grateful to those minds who created this realm.
Thus, it deeply saddens my Subligar – which I just dyed gold a few suns ago – that someone else is deciding to delete forever mine and my old friends' posts of our old adventures, after all those talks about “gratitude to Legacy players”. Someone else has already decided for us and I cannot do anything about it.
I cannot accept such a disrespectful decision, but I'm being forced to.
If this message will ever reach Yoshida-san and the dev team: Thanks for remembering us!
Cloudio Onizuka, true adventurer of the never forgotten old Eorzea