Fixing Legacy Characters Story

[Themis]

I played through the 1.0 main story though. It ended fighting a magitek flying thing in Mor Dhona, followed by a totally sweet final cut scene fighting along side the scions. A forgettable bystander? Please.

Then I finished every side quest in the game. Then they added grand companies, communicating that they were intended to be something extra, parallel to the main story -- not an extension of it -- simply to keep us busy until 2.0 and test out some of their primal mechanics ahead of the re-release.

The way I saw it was that the original 1.0 storyline (which ended in that fight in Mor Dhona) was only a story line. It was also created without any real notion of the fall of Dalamud or had any part in Van Darnus' plans. You could tell as the GC storyline got underway, though, that it was becoming the main storyline - the fight for the future of Eorzea. I never once thought of it as an extension.

well, my character did take part in the Battle of Carteneau .... I guess he was just left there to die but somehow survived the battle field, and lost his memory.

I doubt squareenix will do anything to 'correct' this issue, just have to live with it.
they no longer need to worry about a 'failure' anymore given the game's apparent popularity, and we as its players will get less and less courtesies, just be prepared.

Going from the cutscene alone, technically we never saw any of our characters taking part in the battle. It's implied, though, assuming that you completed "United We Stand", that you were on the forefront of the battle which is where you would need to have been to be included in the whole being teleported/time thing. If you didn't get that far in the story, maybe in the battle you were just too far away from the spell (or whatever it was) to have been included.

I can see the disappointment due to the lack of specific information regarding the eligibility of the difference in the 2.0 cutscenes. It was obviously implied (in some people's minds) that any 1.0 character would get it, but if you didn't actually have any huge impact in the story (i.e. being part of the elite team to take down the Lunar Transmitter, or being the ones to go against Van Darnus) then you can't really expect it to make sense in lore that you suddenly became one of the "Warriors of the Light". It was something I was concerned with back when the whole thing was announced, and after thinking about this (what has actually happened regarding this whole issue) it makes sense. When it comes to it, anyone who did miss out on this just weren't somebody that important, in the eyes of the lore.

[KuroNoKaze]

I can see the disappointment due to the lack of specific information regarding the eligibility of the difference in the 2.0 cutscenes. It was obviously implied (in some people's minds) that any 1.0 character would get it, but if you didn't actually have any huge impact in the story (i.e. being part of the elite team to take down the Lunar Transmitter, or being the ones to go against Van Darnus) then you can't really expect it to make sense in lore that you suddenly became one of the "Warriors of the Light". It was something I was concerned with back when the whole thing was announced, and after thinking about this (what has actually happened regarding this whole issue) it makes sense. When it comes to it, anyone who did miss out on this just weren't somebody that important, in the eyes of the lore.

True. But it also doesn't make any sense to throw returning 1.0 players into the game and treating them like bloody newbies who have never been to Eorzea before.
Mutliple level 50s, ORiginal Storyline completed, Ifrit, Garuda, Moogle King down etc. and you want me to believe not a single person remembers such a character? o_O?

Not to mention starting in Gridania, just like in 1.0, Mother Miounne makes me signthe guild register - again. Why doesn't my char speak up and say "Hey, I already registered 5 years ago." ? Why do Yda and Papalymo not recognize the guy who was there when they crashed with their airship and were chased by a treant?

I can understand when late/endgame NPCs do not recognize such characters, but the ones you had no choice but to meet the moment you stepped into 1.0? By now, I'm hard-pressed to believe SE gave this whole WoL/Legacy thing more than a quick glance. The flaws are too obvious.

What you wrote is true enough, but that does not absolve SE from having to explain a bit more.... a whole lot a bit more.