Stuff I Miss From 1.0

[Canadane]

I wish they had a 1.0 server, you could transfer to for a little while, just to get your nostalgia on, and work on some of those legacy achievements that will never get completed now.

The Legacy selection in the achievements window doesn't even appear for non-legacy members. So they don't have this glaring "what I am missing forever" spot on their screen.
So sadly I don't think there will be much outcry for that.

There is, however, ways to play 1.0 if you know where to look. Or at least basic amounts of it. Get the feel and the weight and the maps back.

[Sancta]

....in 2.0 you remain in the hub queued up for DF .There's no exp parties, no chest key farming in strongholds, no primal key farming etc.The reason there's none of this grouping up for open world content is because the areas are simply not dangerous and even if they were, there's no reason to visit them. Hunts were a brief change to this pattern while they were a good source of tomes, but they were zerg fests and not challenging .

Yes for this reason our community bonds are lacking. People do statics to remedy this, but not everyone can fit into a static. I'd wanna get rid of DF or restrict its access to harder/newer content like they had with second coil. But casuals are against this idea, they don't have time to spend an hour PF'in if it even takes that long for content. (1/2)

[Sancta]

(2/2) But the way this game is setup you couldn't get rid of DF. This juggling game between casual/hardcore is annoying. If you don't have the time to play then you'll just not get as much done. MMO's are meant to be time consuming and can take your life away. I think SE is trying too hard when you simply can't please everyone. I miss the old dungeon styles. Why is every dungeon 4-man just about, when some of them were originally 8 in 1.0? There should be party sized required quests and more variety. Right now there's just too many people to please I guess, who knows, so they just increase the amount of content to keep us occupied, but lose the quality. This coming patch and then the coming expansion better be bigger than this game is now.Theirs just not enough balance.
It would seem the old generation is fading, and the spoon-fed new generation has the majority. Increase the realm submersion, and enough with this solitary confinement to an endless stream of instance's devoid of open-world.

[Diarumuid]

If MMOs are taking your life away, I would say you have a problem. There's a difference between enjoying something and letting it completely take over and dictate your life to the point of going out of your way to keep sustaining that lifestyle. I remember how MMOs were before instances and things like duty finder and no thank you. I would queue up for hours before dungeons, trying to find or form my own party which could take several hours to fill, and then hoping someone was clicking fast enough when the previous party left the dungeon so that we could get in with all the dozens of other people also trying to click fast enough to get in. I spent a lot of time not playing games I was supposedly playing because I did a ton of sitting around and waiting, since the alternative was to grind endlessly on mobs for weeks on end.

[Daniolaut]

i miss alot from 1.x, but there is one thing i miss especially, which made me love FFXI/FFXIV so much more than most MMOs.
the camera during fights.

the way the camera was set up to be behind your character rather than above it and zoomed out far made it feel like i'm actually fighting and not just playing chess


but now with all those flashy effects and aoe circles everywhere we end up with


this sure had a big impact on me, as i loved 1.0's combat, even with all its problems

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Comparison:

1.0



new 2.0 angle

(for you and everyone else who miss 1.0) :P



Youre welcome

[ShizumiNeko]

Open world is that I miss so much the zones fill so small to me, I really wish they still kepted the open world to the game, and I dont 100% like the new UI it looks to modern to me and not fantasy like and the animation felt better in 1.0.

[Velhart]

Five things I miss from 1.xx:

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[Elazu]

[Coris]

This laughter :|

[NolLacnala]

Muh shaders
Navigator's Glory
My cat's arse and posture