I miss FFXIV(Jan2012 and after)/FFXI(LV75cap) :(

[Kallera]

I miss the high quality animations....NO NOT THE DAMN INERTIA WHEN STOPPING! I mean other things. The dev team has adapted well to the new faster style, I just wish there was more physics stuff like blowback/drawin animations, longer or toggleable /smile /smirk, /annoyed, etc.

[Victor]

How can you miss it? It was so boooooooring

[Feathery]

The only thing that I really miss from 1.0 is the music, which I have to say was a lot better back then.. Other than that ARR is much much more polished than 1.0 ever was.

[Sentinel]

You guys must be experiencing nostalgia, because as an outsider, that video bored me to death, I am GLAD they remade the game.

[AlexiaKidd]

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I also wish I could have seen Tanaka's FFXIV completed, it was obvious that the original launch was rushed and it was nowhere near ready and Tanaka got thrown under the bus for it. Sure his bad management may have lead to the delays and it not being ready in time but I'm sure it was Wada who forced the launch date. It did have some good idea's but the ones that where implemented were poorly executed due to bad server structure and a terrible game engine. I wonder if those rumours of FFXIV being outsourced to China for development where true?

The rumour was that SE outsourced a lot of FFXIV's development to Chinese teams for cheap and when they got the game back it was in a big mess but none of the JP team could translate the Chinese to fix it so they had to redo massive amounts of work which put them miles behind for launch. Just by playing FFXIV at launch you could see massive amounts of content had been obviously and crudely pulled at the last minute, there were loads of zones blocked off with invisible walls and landmarks that had no purpose. Seriously do you think they would really want to launch an MMO with only a handful of story quests? I don't think so, they were pulled out at the last minute while SE scrambled to fix actual core mechanics of the game. In early interviews Tanaka said that FFXIV would ship with enough content to keep you busy for 2 years, why would he say that and then ship with zero content apart from Guildleves? Something big must have happened for them to do what they did and launch how they did with a completely barebones MMO which is why the China rumour does make sense.

[El-Neko]

Played 1.0 pretty much straight through to the end and can say I honestly don't miss any of it, the community has always been toxic, 1.0 forums were testament to that.

To be fair... All games forums are like that.

[Gramul]

How can you miss it? It was so boooooooring

Because we don't need gratuitous sparkle effects to have a good time.

[Aramyth]

The people missing 1.0 are a very small niche crowd. You do exist but everything that has happened to XIV happened for a reason; the initial launch was bad. Plus Yoshi P had his hands on the game for all your gaming time aka updates.

I tried to watch the OPs video and it was boring. Horrible UI. Horrible sounds when opening elements in the UI. Long narrow corridors. Nothing really out in the world besides landscapes. Even slower combat. I could probably go on.

[Dannythm]

I also miss 1.0 and what could have been if Tanaka's team had 1 or 2 years more to finish and polish that game correctly.

I'm enjoying ARR a whole lot, but they are SO different as game concepts...

I wish they brought back the horizontal progression on gear.

[Laiyenu]

The 2.0 Graphic look better, but not the Skill Battle Animation. 2.0 most of the skill is the same, small and big particle effect and a lot of flashing. Like how in 1.0 when you do Sentinel a whole white globe surround your character, other effect such as Black Mage flare effect, etc. It is just more unique like each skill have it own graphic.

Want those casting animations back SO MUCH.