Stuff I Miss From 1.0

[Haoma]

*The open world... I remember than you could travel on those stone pathways above that cavern area outside of Horizon. You could get lost in the world... LimLom was larger if only because it took longer to get outside the city. I'm pretty sure there were invisible walls all over the place, but I don't remember running into any. 2.0? You can't turn around without hitting one.

You couldn't run into them because they were hidden behind flared-up terrain and a ton of re-used static meshes.

About everything, it was more unique than ARR

FFXIV felt like FFXI a lot more, the combat was better.

Hardly unique then, wasn't it?

FFXIV ARR is a Wow/GW2/Rift ripoff nothing exciting.

No...no...! Bad! Not on the carpet!

[Reiterpallasch]

It looked nice in the same way 1.0 shroud looked nice, but the same repetitive terrain over and over killed it.

The black shroud was repetitive?



I'm not seeing it.

[Fensfield]

I would love to be able to reach Tanaka and tell him my feelings about the game and say him "I really wanted to play your full vision of the game ...".

I.. find myself thinking that really often. Between the way Wada and company shifted all of the blame that they could onto him - no I'm not saying he made no mistakes of his own, but anyone not gleefully aboard the hate bandwagon could easily tell they scapegoated him something awful - and the fact there's been so little sign of him since.. Does he still work for S-E? Last I heard, even after stepping down as FFXIV's director he was still in a consulting position on Final Fantasy XI and still a part of FFXIV's administrative department.

I really do wish there was a way to write to Tanaka and let him know how much I would have loved to see v1.0's intentions realised, whatever issues it may have had. It really bothers me to think he and the people worked with him might believe he's/they're universally hated and blamed.

[KiriA500]

The black shroud was repetitive?



I'm not seeing it.

Good lord, that map was awful. So glad that place is gone.

[Recycler]

I really really really miss the sense of danger and exploration. Man how I was dragged into Gridania story line that I was ACTUALLY afraid about exploring the shroud too deep in case I awoke the green wrath, because the shroud was really intimidating back then. Then when I advanced in the story it blew up my mind. SE caught me, and it was done so gracefully and well done... It was really great.

Oh yes, this so much...I loved the areas I just couldn't pass due to mobs with super high levels. It felt exciting and I leveled just so I had a higher chance to stay alive. Literally nothing of that can be experienced in 2.0. I just don't get why they choose to do that...it feels so cheap now Dungeons feel like they are totally detached from the world too, so there's nothing left...

[Mikita]

Does he still work for S-E? Last I heard, even after stepping down as FFXIV's director he was still in a consulting position on Final Fantasy XI and still a part of FFXIV's administrative department.

According to these articles...

Hiromichi Tanaka left Square Enix in summer 2012.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/...es-square-enix

Then apparently he has been working with another company as a freelance adviser.
(ignore the first post on this link... it's an April Fool's joke)
http://gamerescape.com/tag/hiromichi-tanaka/

[Feilina]

Found some more:

Monster AI
God i loved those aldgoats staring at me, running in my AoE. This was absolutly brilliant.

Noobcatcher and Lvl 99 Mobs, before you could identify their level!
They made the world a bit more alive and dangerous. Took me quiet a while to explore Mor Dohna back then.

[Dannythm]

I.. find myself thinking that really often. Between the way Wada and company shifted all of the blame that they could onto him - no I'm not saying he made no mistakes of his own, but anyone not gleefully aboard the hate bandwagon could easily tell they scapegoated him something awful - and the fact there's been so little sign of him since.. Does he still work for S-E? Last I heard, even after stepping down as FFXIV's director he was still in a consulting position on Final Fantasy XI and still a part of FFXIV's administrative department.

I really do wish there was a way to write to Tanaka and let him know how much I would have loved to see v1.0's intentions realised, whatever issues it may have had. It really bother me to think he and the people worked with him might believe he's/they're universally hated and blamed.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that feels that way =D.

I still have hope that Yoshi will slowly bring back to arr some of those elements we liked from 1.0 back then.

[Eekiki]

and the fact there's been so little sign of him since.. Does he still work for S-E?

He retired from SE due to "health concerns". Speculation is that he has cancer, but no official word has been released.

[Datu]

Just glad to read comments so close to what I've been thinking. 1.0 as rocky and problematic as it was, had so much more substance.