Final Fantasy XIV 1.23b - Would you Play it if Available?

[delukard7]

Veteran player here (using new account)
i would play it.
there were many things i liked more than ARR
To me the overworld map felt more alive
ARR feels like the maps are glorified waiting loby
For example if, square took the maps away and leave a central zone (city) and a board to do the instances, ARR would still continue with no loss whatsoever

1.2 the problem is that once you get to endgame there is not much to do.

[Felis]

ARR feels like the maps are glorified waiting loby
For example if, square took the maps away and leave a central zone (city) and a board to do the instances, ARR would still continue with no loss whatsoever

Gatherers and story quests would say "No!"

[savageink]

Good god, no.

[Beatrice]

Veteran player here (using new account)
i would play it.
there were many things i liked more than ARR
To me the overworld map felt more alive
ARR feels like the maps are glorified waiting loby
For example if, square took the maps away and leave a central zone (city) and a board to do the instances, ARR would still continue with no loss whatsoever

1.2 the problem is that once you get to endgame there is not much to do.

o_o The overworld map in 1.X was copypasta'ed over and over again. Everything looked the SAME and it was very boring to look at. There are a lot of pretty zones in ARR/Heavensward. I like exploring and looking around the world while I gather/do hunts/do FATEs.

In fact, this whole "just stay in the main hub" was a massive issue with pre-DF FFXIV, as you had to remain in the main hubs to search for players to run content with instead of doing literally ANYTHING ELSE while you waited. Ul'dah was hopping in 1.0 for precisely this.

Yeeeeees, I remember Ul'dah being the main hub city to find people to do things with! It was when I finally joined a very active linkshell that I felt like I could leave Ul'derp (which loved to crash because so many people were jam packed into the city) and do what I want/needed to because I began running most content with my linkshell buddies.

[KisaiTenshi]

o_o The overworld map in 1.X was copypasta'ed over and over again. Everything looked the SAME and it was very boring to look at. There are a lot of pretty zones in ARR/Heavensward. I like exploring and looking around the world while I gather/do hunts/do FATEs.

Pretty much everyone caught onto the copypasta maps. The cities weren't bad but the areas immediately outside the city was like "haven't I seen this clearing before?" That might have worked for Gridania's maze, but La Noscea and Thanalan were even more copy-pasta'd. In fact if you go look at some places in V1.0 and in V2.0, the only places that actually resemble each other at all are the cities, and even then, they've been scaled down quite a bit.

One of these days I need to do a comparison between V1.x and V2.x map by map for scale, but that will have to wait until either SE creates a legit way to play V1.0, or other efforts more resemble a game and not just an empty void.

I did this a while back (it's probably somewhere else in this thread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_QK_zkEZPU
I could probably do comparisons of other jobs, but for that I need to complete all of them to 50, and footage of everything isn't available.

One thing I also need to point out (which was only apparent if you finished ARR) is that 5 minutes into the opening cutscene of V1.0, is where Midgardsomr takes down the Garlean airship, and that is what becomes the "keeper of the lake" dungeon. If you actually got to explore this area in V1.0 you'd see that is is absolutely huge. https://youtu.be/EKUynGGV7Dk

[delukard7]

o_o The overworld map in 1.X was copypasta'ed over and over again. Everything looked the SAME and it was very boring to look at. There are a lot of pretty zones in ARR/Heavensward. I like exploring and looking around the world while I gather/do hunts/do FATEs.




Yeeeeees, I remember Ul'dah being the main hub city to find people to do things with! It was when I finally joined a very active linkshell that I felt like I could leave Ul'derp (which loved to crash because so many people were jam packed into the city) and do what I want/needed to because I began running most content with my linkshell buddies.

Thats why i said TO ME! not to everyone else.