Thank you Yoshi!

[Mikara]

They could have just made it free to play with buyable upgrades...

Yeah, instead they made it a pay to play game with a cash shop with buyable upgrades in it, thanks a ton for that indeed.

On another note, I'm guessing most of you who are agreeing with the OP either never played 1.0-1.23 or played very little of it. Let me break some of it down, firstly the "million times better" some of it is better, some of it is the same, some of it is worse. Next for the, "high level of communication and honesty" it's pretty bad when I need a cryptogram key to solve some of their responses to the players when they "answer" questions that are asked as well as some of the broken promises that they have already gone back on (see the "goobbue mount only for 1.0 players, never to be seen again ever we promise" fiasco).

Not really trying to be an ass, but zero or next to zero research has been done by the OP. Either way I'm glad you are happy with the game, and I hope it gets better and better as time goes on.

[Theplatter]

Beautiful game, but I would have preferred FFXI HD over Final WoW 14.

[YeaniNah]

im legacy and was online most of 1.0 till now just to hang out with some friends and do slowly some stuff . and i love the game and love how its become and SE is doing great work


And if ...and i mean if People are telling me .. i dont know anything cos i said i like 1.0 how 2.0 turn out

First thing is im NOT force to love the same thing as you
Second thing I'm free to love what i want
third thing I'm free to say SE did a great job and a great game
Fourth thing : You are allowed to say you do not like the game
BUT you cannot say we know nothing because it is YOU who don't know my style of game and what i like.

[lokinmodar]

... (see the "goobbue mount only for 1.0 players, never to be seen again ever we promise" fiasco)...

Oh Goobbue mount tears....

[Yurimi]

The Square Enix team in charge of A Realm Reborn should really be commended for the outstanding work they are doing with this game! It is a million times better than 1.0. Furthermore the high level of communication and honesty you guys have with your community is something that is becoming so rare in MMOs today. One of the reasons I am actually still playing this game @_@.

I do thank them for the high level of communication but as much as the LAUNCH of FFXIV 1.0 went and the LAUNCH of this game went honestly the biggest issue was present on both (the massive server issues being the largest by far) and this game still has server issues on instance reset days and lately ALL THE TIME in AV and other popular instances. While ARR is not a bad game to me personally I found the appeal of V1.0 (particularly after 1.18) better so its really a matter of opinion though I respect yours I am going to disagree though i wont try to change your mind. Everyones entitled to their own opinion after all.

Honestly my biggest gripe with SE though is the customer service, no matter how good the game is without decent customer support its going to frustrate players (though this isnt just ARR its all SE online titles).

[silentwindfr]

i did play the 1.0-1.23, sorry but the game have greatly evolve since that time. the V1 had large empty area as map, no real identity into it. simply large landscape with some monster there and there. the Shroud was horrible it was simply corridor copy paste all the way.
the fight was slow, and some classe was simply... well i will talk of the Monk since it was mine. it had capacity for tank, but was a dps... the jobs was never balance.
the few dungeon we had was unbalanced to the point that only some jobs was wanted the other was simply left out.
let's continue about the few dungeon, it was running to a point, sleep all for take a break, move until have enough enemy and blast all with AoE... some fight was impossible with a melee. the drop rate was ridiculous, some people was simply farming the dungeon and have never seen more than 3-5 part of them dl drop.

all the game was about grind, grind, grind and...grind. no fun at all, grind is nothing more than a form of work. here we have the fun, that the most important part! we don't spend month and years for be able to face the challenge... no! here we face the challenge!

we have a world, more living, more beautifull, class more balanced, more content to do, more way to level up a class (than simply farm monster in monster party), more activity to do and it will increase with each patch.

sorry, but if you want a game about grind, FF14 ARR will never be that. Yoshida have said it, what the point to connect to a game for not have fun! the FF11 playerbase that still ask to make FF14 ARR a FF11-2 or FF11 HD, have simply loose of sight that the mmorpg have evolve. it's over the time where people was spending tons of hours for get soo little. here we get a lot with a decent time spend!

then thank you Yoshida and all the people working on FF14, continue like this, bring us more and more. some people are behind you!

[HoneyBiscuit]

Do people really feel the need to poison any and all positive threads on this forum? It's bad enough as it is.

I agree I like this game a lot more than version 1. People stopped playing it for a reason. There may have been good things, but it was a train wreck as a whole. ARR has it's issues, it's lacking features version 1 had. But overall I'd definitely say it's better. And it's captured my attention more than any other MMO on the market right now. Surely I'm not alone.

[Cid_Grim]

Thank you for this great game. I've been playing since beta, and my girlfriend would watch me play constantly. Which eventually meant that i had to build another PC, purchase another copy of the game, and pay another monthly subscription.

Money well spent.

[KitanaiKoneko]

People really need to realize what Square-Enix has done. No other gaming company EVER has redesigned an entire game.!

Well, Duke Nukem 4ever was pretty close. I think it was cancelled and restarted 3-4 times over the course of 10+ years..
but yes, (I didn't play 1.0) but I'm impressed with the game, it managed to steal me away from a game that has almost 10 years worth of content (not WoW).

[saber_alter]

Well, Duke Nukem 4ever was pretty close. I think it was cancelled and restarted 3-4 times over the course of 10+ years..
but yes, (I didn't play 1.0) but I'm impressed with the game, it managed to steal me away from a game that has almost 10 years worth of content (not WoW).

the argument falls apart when you realize there was never a "duke nukem forever 1.0" and the fact the final release was a huge letdown for the huge amount of hype it received.

but that is another argument for another time.