OMFG

Omfg everyone go to GameSpot and watch the video review they have of the old FFXIV. It crazy on how much of an improvement they have made. I watch that video and wonder why I even played that game, but I'm glad I did.

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Originally Posted by PrinceLloyd

I watch that video and wonder why I even played that game, but I'm glad I did.

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Simple. You're a victim of the fanboy-syndrome. Nothing to worry about, many people are.

That's probably what it was too. If it wasn't a final fantasy title, I probably would of stopped playing.

wow. I played the first 2 months of 1.0, i did like it but yeah, it looked kinda bad. I was in awe most of the time I played in beta, just in scenery alone ARR is awesome and I think mmo's needed something visually exciting like this. Cannot wait till launch!

... anyone wanna actually post a link?

lol.... That was a nice history lesson.

Makes FFXIV ARR look like a totally different game. Amazing where FFXIV has been able to rise from.

Edit: link http://www.gamespot.com/final-fantasy-xiv-online/videos/final-fantasy-xiv-online-video-review-6281074/

You should watch that for fun to kill some time :p

http://www.gamespot.com/final-fantasy-xiv-online/

I'm pretty sure i enjoyed it for about a month...and all the rest of the months it was free :)

I still <3 1.0 every single version from craft to battle.

I still liked 1.0 apart from game crashes faulty engine. They have made considerable improvements. Even 1.23 was very good but due to such a crappy game engine it was unreliable.

Another review of 1.0.

http://youtu.be/Ei0GxMOBztA

Still remember the copy pasta montage. :)

Yeh played the first 4 months of 1.0 and gave up in the end, just remember combat being awful and at the time my PC really struggling to run it well. This game is a totally different experience, fantastic improvement. Only complaint I would have is the loading screens from zone to zone but I can live with that and once SE get the release day glitches sorted this game will rock.

How did someone even play this?

ikr? I played ver. 1.0 simply because I really thought the game was a little different from the generic mmo and it was in some areas. For example the battle system (although it was terribly bugged) was actually trying to be innovative a bit from the way you attacked to how you gained exp. Personally, I think they could've polished that system to give this game something unique than most other mmos don't have. Although the game has now turned into a generic mmo (not entirely but only somewhat), it's still impressively done from the way I see it. Seriously, I saw how this game literally transformed from ver. 1.0 to today. Let's just hope we get good patches/updates from here on.

Bye Bye ver. 1.0 I will miss you, thanks for the good memories.

I miss the graphical quality of 1.0... not the gameplay. and by graphical quality I am not referring to the copy/pasted areas, I mean the character models.

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Originally Posted by PrinceLloyd

That's probably what it was too. If it wasn't a final fantasy title, I probably would of stopped playing.

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Exactly. As a huge FF fan even I quit.

1.0 still has alot better graphics, artstyle and atmosphere. In that regard, FF14 ARR is a big step backwards.

I really hope it has a good end-game and some hard dungeons.