Happy 6th Anniversary!

Six years ago today, some of us logged in to FFXIV for the first time and were privileged to experience the Eorzea that we had been reading about for months prior first-hand.

Disembarking at Limsa Lominsa, meeting up with friends made on the forums in the week before and attempting to venture out onto a different, but similar La Noscea than what we know today. I say attempting, because the invisible zone line (all zones were seamless back then!) at Zephyr Gate caused players clients to crash, players to disappear from their friends and for some players to walk out onto a La Noscea that was devoid of any fauna whatsoever.

Six years on and the game has undergone a huge amount of change. Introduction of Jobs, crafter's recipe books (originally you'd have to use trial and error combining 1-6 materials to see what you got), removal of xp granted for casting Cure, fleeing of level 99 monsters from the open-world, a successful relaunch bringing minions, an inventory that wasn't a list that just sorted itself, the fantastic market board system, houses and a wealth of stories and players to experience them with.

So well met to my friends long past from the EU 1.0 Alpha Test! We may have gone our separate ways long ago, but a surprisingly large number of you are still here.

I'm sure the NA 1.0 Alpha was as exciting an experience too - please do post any memories!

How many of us will be here in another six years' time, i wonder!

check my forum location :P

Wow its been six years since Alpha 1. Those were the good old days.

Happy 6th Anniversary! Good days on the Shadowlord Server ^O^

Nice to see some of us still around.

Ah, those were the days...



http://i.imgur.com/oM5XE0O.jpg

lol

I have a pic of my lala like that as we had limited choice of race...that red line always makes me laugh.

I Joined on open-beta but it has been a long time and had lot of fun back there. I miss 1.0 days :(

The game at 1.23 was already near perfect but then the overhauled this, some things for better but others for worse.

Ok, now i am feeling old...

About memories: I guess I will never forget the day when we have beaten the LvL99 Monster...
http://i.imgur.com/XgRG0n2.jpg

Nice pic haha so many names I recognise...was this the night most of the server killed a tree for about 3 hours? lol

yes :)
Sadly not all players who were there are in that pic.

Too nostalgic watching all those old pictures, now i gonna miss 1.x again...

Here we have End of an Era
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fFi6dEyQ7Qg/maxresdefault.jpg

I pre ordered the collectors editon of 1.0 but my laptop was too weak to run it and so I decided to wait on the console version that ended up never coming out.

Hard to believe that was 6 years ago. Goodness.

Bought the game and I loved how it looked, but the game was very broken. I had issues with simple commands, some quests were very weird. Only thing that I will miss from FFXIV 1.0 is the cutscenes and the open-world, character customization (characters had butts and some races like Elezen had muscles) . I soo hope these features return to FFXIV.

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Originally Posted by Laerune

Only thing that I will miss from FFXIV 1.0 is the cutscenes and the open-world, character customization (characters had butts and some races like Elezen had muscles) . I soo hope these features return to FFXIV.

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butts were not customizable. They were just here.