Harder to enjoy ARR as a 1.2X-era FF14 player?

[Razzle]

As much as I'm enjoying ARR, it's a bit cluttered and messy compared to 1.0. The UI and aesthetic of 1.0 was much cleaner looking, it's one of the features that really caught my interest when deciding to play it. Here are some screens to show what I mean.

A beautiful merchant strip in Limsa


Playing my DRG in skirmish


I really love the look of the old achievements menu

I hate you for making me miss ver 1.0 ( T w T

[Aegis]

I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... Satellite uplinks on fire off the shoulder of Van Darnus. I watched Simian Strikes glitter in the dark near the Zanarak Gate. All those... moments... will be lost in time, like connections... in... Crystal Tower. Time... to die...

[Lstkaws]

It doesn't make it more difficult to play 2.0, but what it does do is make it more difficult to accept some of the decisions made by the dev. team.

I miss skirmish
I miss playing with a controller, the new gamepad UI is unusable for me.
I miss auto attack and TP building.
I miss the huge zones (as many others have said)
I miss certain aspects of the graphics from 1.0

[sharazisspecial]

I miss release thm D:.

[Aegis]

I miss release thm D:.

I miss being insanely OP too.

But in my case it's the 1.19 WAR I miss.

"Oh hi thar, huge wave of enemies, be gentle with me, I only have half "Steel Cyclone, Steel Cyclone, Steel Cyclone ".. make that full health, wait... where did you all go?"

[Junpei]

WHAT A NECRO BUMP.

OP august 31st 2013.

[Aegis]

WHAT A NECRO BUMP.

OP august 31st 2013.

Can't win in this forum.

Post a new thread about a topic: Why don't you add it to the existing threads?
Add comment to existing thread: Necrobump!

[Kasumuni]

I really miss standing in the forest in South Shroud at night with the rain and lightning......and the music........jesus.....i miss that....

[Tupsi]

I really miss standing in the forest in South Shroud at night with the rain and lightning......and the music........jesus.....i miss that....

Remember when FFXIV was a Final Fantasy game? Yeah good times. Honestly, ARR improved the framework as promised but it got rid of..the life of the game to make it "standard". While some people eat that up and pretty much spits on anyone who says they enjoyed 1.x, let's face it - rather than "improving" they pretty much threw out everything. Remember all of the:

"This will be fixed in 2.0!"
"2.0 will allow us to expand x.."

That loaded poll question of "are you ok with an overhaul of the game's rules?" Almost everyone voted for were voting for fixing the foundation rather than giving us a generic standard MMORPG that seemed to make even the overworld largely meaningless.

[AlexNiculaie]

Remember when FFXIV was a Final Fantasy game?

I'm sorry, but what? LOL Nothing about 1.0, and I mean nothing, made it more of a "Final Fantasy" game than 2.0. What an utterly ridiculous statement. I mean, I can (vaguely) understand liking things about 1.0 and not liking other things in 2.0, but exactly what possible basis is there for the notion that 1.0 was more "Final Fantasy" than 2.0? Seriously, what means of measurement does one use for that kind of thinking?