Legacy Account Shout out

[Enkidoh]

I'm Legacy and proud of it! And yes, I still play my original 1.0 character - Enki is my main and will forever be so (I'm one of these boring people who have kept my character pretty much the same as they were in 1.0 and have never used the Fantasias or aesthetician even, ha ha).

Mainly because I'm still salty over the 'legacy intro' vs 'ARR intro'... but that's neither here nor there.

Awww, yeah, I was disappointed about that as well, but I've pretty much moved on from caring about it really - the way the storyline runs it's pretty much irrelevant anyway so it's all water under the bridge to me. I've just rewritten Enki's backstory to 'explain' why she was on the chocobo carriage to Gridania like a new adventurer instead of warping in like Derplander and his friends, which I think neatly explains things. Or at least, it does to me.

Edit: why people upset about the legacy intro? did I miss something ?

It's something that I think most players no longer really are concerned about, but it comes from back during ARR's development, Yoshi apparently promised 1.0 players would get a 'special opening' and a slightly different storyline to new players. However, in the last phase of the Beta test it soon became apparent that a significant number of 1.0 players instead upon starting ARR, were getting the same opening like a new player does, and were missing out on the promised 'Legacy opening' and resulting storyline. SE remained silent on the issue for a long time, leading to a lot of rumours, eventually revealing long after launch that to qualify for the Legacy opening, a 1.0 player had to have passed an apparently arbitrary portion of the 7th Umbral Era storyline in 1.0 (specifically, the Lunar Transmitter battle). Those which didn't were therefore treated like a new player. Accordingly, the community didn't react well to this news.

But like I said, it's all water under the bridge now and is now pretty much meaningless. This thread shows the discussion and SE's official reply, and the resulting fallout and community response: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...aracters-Story

[DSX]

I'm Legacy and I'm still here
Deeply disappointed in ARR though.


Edit: why people upset about the legacy intro? did I miss something ?

[SaintAjora]

I don't play my 1.0 character because my friends couldn't get on my server, and transfers from legacy to non weren't allowed back then. But I'm still here! ^^
I do miss my tattoo and goobbue, though... XD

[ErBear]

Rokien here: I'm a laggplayer and I do not play the game anymore but I do try and keep up with whats going on just in case there's something good that could bring me back to this game.

Ps: I boycotted the goobuu because, yeah, mounts.... silly.

[AmyNeudaiz]

I've played since I joined officially August of 2011 during patch 1.17 I believe (tried 1.0 beta on someone else's account, ew) and I fell in love with XIV once version 1.20 hit and further in 1.23. I despised the relaunch Beta, absolutely loathed it especially after being locked out on error 3102 for two weeks. I disliked 2.0 as well on launch because of the log in issues and the [lack of] content but I actively really enjoy ARR since 2.2 came out. I'm going to be playing this a long time for sure.

Not salty about the intro difference though, but very salty my character only gets "remembered" at the end of the story..... Like really, you couldn't change a few dialogues? Ugh.

[DSX]

It's something that I think most players no longer really are concerned about, but it comes from back during ARR's development, Yoshi apparently promised 1.0 players would get a 'special opening' and a slightly different storyline to new players. However, in the last phase of the Beta test it soon became apparent that a significant number of 1.0 players instead upon starting ARR, were getting the same opening like a new player does, and were missing out on the promised 'Legacy opening' and resulting storyline. SE remained silent on the issue for a long time, leading to a lot of rumours, eventually revealing long after launch that to qualify for the Legacy opening, a 1.0 player had to have passed an apparently arbitrary portion of the 7th Umbral Era storyline in 1.0 (specifically, the Lunar Transmitter battle). Those which didn't were therefore treated like a new player. Accordingly, the community didn't react well to this news.

But like I said, it's all water under the bridge now and is now pretty much meaningless. This thread shows the discussion and SE's official reply, and the resulting fallout and community response: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...aracters-Story

Oh yes I remember all of that as I watched it all unfold and I got the legacy intro as I finished the story from ver1. I thought later they informed us that the cut point to get the legacy intro is to have at least the quest United We Stand cleared.

My confusion was that for some reason I thought you two were upset for getting the legacy intro as you didn't like/want it

[CosmoRuckus]

I've been on Legacy character since day 1 of 1.0. playing almost every day

[Mikita]

Sorry, no screenshot. But I've been here since Oct 2011. I ride my legacy chocobo rather than any other mount (and to Rokien: I still usually run/ride rather than teleport).

There's a lot to do in ARR. I just really miss the community we had in the old version. With ARR it is really convenient to just log in and go off to DF from wherever you are in Eorzea... so that's what people do and I hardly see the LS/FC anymore. I feels more like this is a single player game rather than an MMORPG.

[Gilraen]

I'm a Warrior of Light that has traversed the Void (too many times to count) to reside in the wonderful realm of Midgardsormr. And, really, the Legacy intro is by far... substantially less interactive than the standard intro. Seriously, we appear like Derplander outside our chosen city and walk in. That's it. We get the same narration, but no fun little wagon ride with the 'informative' talk from the Merchant Ranger (who later talks to you like he did have that talk with you even though it never happened, not going to say when that happens for spoilers). And yeah, it was alot more fun in 1.#. Would I ever go back there, not on your life. I like being able to play on my PS3 too much to give it up.

[Naelle]

I'm still here! I wish the tattoo was account bound like the chocobo, for I too started a new character to play with friends.