Can we have Tanaka back now?

[SolArisa]

But really, now I can say confidently that I liked the game much more and to where it was heading, during 1.0.

Ack, except for the DF. That's one major contributor to the miserable state of the in-game community which destroys more than it benefits. Just a tool for the couch potatoes.

And concerning the working UI ... yes, we don't have this. Just lots of non-working or half-implemented UI elements which will never get fixed, i.e. not being able to use retainer sorting macros with a retainer. Or text input fields like in PF which allow 67 characters less in the text input fields than it should, unequipping of items resulting of them being placed in the armoury chest even when you have configured the game to drop it into inv, and so on. The UI is an unfinished mess, and always will be. And don't start dreaming about things Yoshi-P promised and never delivered, like the API for creating own UI plugins.

[Merylx]

Bring Tanaka back and watch FFXIV: ARR sink into the abyss? No thanks.

[Seif]

It's not black and white either way.

I would like 1.0's enemy AI and actual danger back.

Wanting those things doesn't mean I'd like to have a total rollback and it's not like they couldn't do that in ARR right now.

Enemy leashes are one of the worst things they did to this game.

[Najara]

So what?

They may not have been the best ideas, but they were atleast ones that melted away from the cookie cutter plot. When I look at 1.x videos(I never got to try it) I see a lot of potential. Battles look impactful, progression could actually be felt, the graphics looked awesome(r). I still don't know why on that one. None of that potential made it through to 2.0. We have dreadful clipping, overly flashy abilities that have become bland and meaningless, and whatever gear progression you make it one month could equally be made by a newly 50 in the same.

If they made a 1.0 server I think I would try it and never look back.

[Mahri]

You want "old school punishing" game, go play Dark Souls series.

Don't compare Dark Souls to Tanaka's crap.

Dark Souls is really hard, but at least there's some carefully-considered thought behind it's design, as opposed to being arbitrarily punishing, disempowering, and wanting to waste as much of your time as humanly possible.

[Gramul]

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Please don't do that.
We need to step back and cut the hyperbole and exaggerations if we want any progressing conversation to form.

We all have different ways of having fun. We know that. Trying to lie and mock each other about it isn't going to improve anything.

They took that old game from us and gave us something different. People liked it and people hated it.
As astronomically unlikely as it is, What if they did the same with this version? Took it away and implemented features enjoyed more by sandbox and committed players? It would polarize it again. There is no objectivity to which designs are better or worse, there's only what they believe will attract a larger subscriber base.
1.0 was marred by being incomplete, horrendous optimization, unintuitive UI, and poor network structure. If it was a more full game, it may have been able to fill the gap that core players have been looking for. I don't know. I'm not an expert.

In any case, jokes like that only serve to make us feel better about our own taste. I only ask that you dial it down a bit.

[KyrsIsley]

I have no idea what I am talking about, because I never got to try it.

The graphics were better at the expense extremely poor resource management. I agree I much preferred the art style of 1.0 and I also wish we could have that back but if that means I am stuck with the old engine and battle system, then no thanks.

I loved the concept behind the game in terms of story, lore, and the direction. But that does not equate to loving the old system they had in stock for you to experience those wonderful aspects of the game with. The system/engine was just horrible.

If you've never tried it you will never understand how painful it was to play in 1.0. I still had a lot of fun, but the game itself was so broken in so many ways that you can only know if you played it for an extended period of time.

[Kyousha]

Okay, we learned our lesson, you can put Tanaka back in now!

But really, now I can say confidently that I liked the game much more and to where it was heading, during 1.0.

What do you guys think?

Oh, Jesus.

I think you're a little too late for the 1.0 feedback, aren't ya? lol. Players already voted for what we got in 2.0. They're not going to suddenly cater to the small minority again. That's like if people took a vote by raising hands, and 9/10 people voted in favor for something... then that one other person started protesting in the hallway... they're going to look kinda dumb. :X Sorry, but... truth.

Not gonna happen! [Edit]: Besides, if they brought back 1.0's graphics and other mechanics... I don't think it would run as well on PS3? I COULD be wrong, but I thought they were having immense trouble implementing that for PS3 before. But it's whatever, I'm getting a PS4 soon anyway XD Meh.

[Laf]

World just wasn't ready for Tanakas genius!

[Tiggy]

Okay, we learned our lesson, you can put Tanaka back in now!

What lesson do you think you could possibly have learned that would have justified the crapshoot that was 1.0 or had anything at all to do with 2.0+? The sheer volume of people NOT playing the game completely disagrees with you. The amazing amount of money and reputation SE lost completely disagrees with you. 1.0 is dead and burried. It's over, and it's never coming back.