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

[Surian]

The thing is, many of us feel that by the time 1.23 rolled out the game was already ruined beyond repair.

While 1.0 might not have had the best things in the world, it looked amazing and felt amazing.

Then in the period between 1.0 and 1.23 they added nonsense update after update, changing key structural and mechanical components of the game. Combat was complete redone to a system i for instance absolutely hated. Super slow auto-attack building TP and with the whole starting out with 0 TP on top of abilities costing anywhere from 1500 to 2000 TP, you could use them maybe once every what 40-50 seconds? Opposed to the marvelous system they had before, where they gave you a full amount of TP, and asked you to pace it out over the course of the battle as it slowly refilled. Meant you could unleash everything and kill things super fast, but be useless if the battle took longer, or pace things out, conserving TP for when you needed it.

Countless of UI changes that did nothing except clutter up the screen and took away all immersion. Countless of changes to crafting and materials, completely wiping a lot of components away making them even more anoying. It was downright terrible.

I loved 1.0, i absolutely hated the game from all the changes they made by the time 1.23 rolled out. And seeing how they closed the servers not long after, everyone who wasnt a massive troll felt the same way.

Now 2.0 is slowly going in the same direction again :/ Too many changes, not enough that are done out of absolutely being needed. Too little actually worthwhile additions and too many things that just get abused, spammed or used to anoy others with.

Please dont let this game turn into another 1.23 but then the 2.23 variant...

[Gazille]

I am a 1.0 player and i hated it before 2.0

[Kallera]

I enjoyed 1.0 for the time that I played it. It just needed more to do, and a fix with the delays in between the UI and actions. At its soul, I enjoyed the exploring the most. Copypasta map be damned, there was something with traveling to the farthest reaches of Coerthas, lined with lvl 90 mobs, that 2.0 just can't match. That, and the crafting had a point. I love crafting, and made it a point to do well at it to be financially set, unlike my time on FFXI.

In 2.0, the world is smaller, the crafting sidelined, and everything's corralled in its own little spot. I die a little inside when I run past a basilisk, run a short distance, then watch him give up and walk back 5 feet away from me, leashed by design.

That is 2.0 to me. Leashes, on the mobs, on events, on crafting and materia, on the AH, everything...except the duty finder, because the MMO future apparently has all roads leading to the hamster wheel of dungeons. Let us fear the pricing of the AH, the potential of the materia slot, but let Mercenary pts and gilsellers rule the day. I expect this from a F2P game, not one I have to subscribe to.

[Royze]

people need to stop confusing 1.0 with 1.23.
1.0 was horrible. Most of you stuck around for 1 month then got lost.
The game got incredibly better. Pre-ARR FFXIV (1.23) was several patches in the right direction, towards an epic MMO.
ARR is not. It's more like League of Legends. Que up for stuff, kill, Goodbye.

[ReplicaX]

people need to stop confusing 1.0 with 1.23.

There is a huge difference. The issue is ppl are just generalizing.

The game got incredibly better. Pre-ARR FFXIV (1.23) was several patches in the right direction, towards an epic MMO.
ARR is not. It's more like League of Legends. Que up for stuff, kill, Goodbye.

This is your opinion. Yes their direction did change with ARR. However, even if they wanted to continue in the direction of 1.23 it still required a new engine regardless.

[Tannlore]

Not sure if I find it harder, honestly I find it more enjoyable because I have been able to access all the content more readily than 1.0.I really liked what 2.0 did for most of the game personally. My only grip is crafting and how marginalized it has become.

ARR is not. It's more like League of Legends. Que up for stuff, kill, Goodbye.

I hear this a lot from people and I don't understand why. Do people not get friends together to do things like fates, maps, or guildleves? I think it is more a problem of people putting themselves in that conveyor belt mentality and not branching out. I'm not saying there isn't a lot of Queing, but there's a lot of non-Que activity too.

[Galliano]

I miss open world dungeons to explore, rare drop NMs (none FATE), those beautiful textures and danger in the world.

[Surian]

1.0 was horrible. Most of you stuck around for 1 month then got lost.
The game got incredibly better. Pre-ARR FFXIV (1.23) was several patches in the right direction, towards an epic MMO.

If this were the case, FFXIV wouldnt have gone belly-up. For a select few who enjoyed the instanced WoW-setup the game was heading to it was better, for most of the rest of the playerbase it was not. Hence why everyone left, in masses. Seeing as you didnt join till November '12, i doubt you were even there during the "Golden Age of FFXIV". It was good. It got worse every single time they felt they had to change something for no particular reason.

[SirSaber]

I'm enjoying ARR more, the only stuff I'm missing are the BGMs, Graphics (even though they made me lag like hell) and the more open world aspect (tho I don't dislike to be in 2-5s where i wanna be compared to 1.2 where it takes me 1-2minutes to enter a city).

The game is not the same anylonger, some people might not like it but hey the majority is happy it seems, otherwise the game would already be like back in 1.x > Ghost servers everywhere.

[Theonekitten]

...otherwise the game would already be like back in 1.x > Ghost servers everywhere.

Please look forward to it! ;P