Really starting to get discouraged from playing.

[Gardes]

Indeed, I only started playing during 2.0 beta. I am a SMN only player atm (another reason for my hesitation to join in 1.0) I have clocked about 2000 hours now. I dread to think the hours other players have put in though lol.

Ohhh that's right! Materia was implemented in one of the 1.0 patches right? I remember seeing a post about that way back when on some site. Though I notice that site you linked me lists some Materia's that are not in 2.0 on wards. There are some really good ones that would help make the current Materia system a lot more customizable.

IIRC combat rework was 1.16 (went from stamina spamming for tp for skills to just auto attacking for tp for skills on cooldown). Then 1.17 for job introduction (it was just classes before). Could be wrong on the patch numbering but I picked up the game again around there.