The "Meteor mark": anyone else come upon this issue?

[RichardButte]

Yeah, that's what I expected but I figured I'd ask anyway.

Again, had we but KNOWN that our old characters were still there, we'd definitely have paid to transfer them off of the Japanese cluster...

[KisaiTenshi]

Again, had we but KNOWN that our old characters were still there, we'd definitely have paid to transfer them off of the Japanese cluster...

You do realize that they emailed all the email addresses of accounts that ever had an active V1.0 characters to move them right? And by active, I mean you minimally got past the opening cutscene and did anything.

Like my main character has the mark, but not the chocobo, because the chocobo wasn't available when I last logged into it.

What wasn't moved, retainers. Not that I think mine had anything of value on it.

I doubt SE could do anything at this point because while the tattoo is simply a cosmetic flag, it's covered up by nearly all gear that isn't a bathing suit, thus there is likely an entire multi texture layer reserved for just the tattoo. If SE ever gives options for body-paint/tattoos, you might see the tattoo disappear if something replaces it.

[Enkidoh]

What wasn't moved, retainers. Not that I think mine had anything of value on it.

Actually, 1.0 retainers were in fact moved with your 1.0 character into ARR, in fact, after transferring their 1.0 character into ARR, a 1.0 player could immediately rehire their 1.0 retainer from the Retainer Vocate as soon as they started ARR (and didn't have to play through the story to get Minfilia to unlock them) - you had to create a new appearance for them though. But you could keep their old name and they had everything you stored on them intact.

Curiously a 1.0 retainer also has the Legacy mark (depending on if you equip gear on them that keeps their upper back bare, the default Retainer outfit hides it), which proves even more a 1.0 player retained their.. um.. retainers.

[worldofneil]

you had to create a new appearance for them though

I'm pretty sure mine kept her appearance, at least she looks identical in the old photos to how she is now. I don't think I intentionally did that, but maybe I did, it was so long ago now. I remember the same name coming up though and remember thinking that was cool.

Curiously a 1.0 retainer also has the Legacy mark

Wha....!? I NEVER KNEW THIS. I guess I never had the retainer in an outfit that shows it off, at the same time never flicked the camera round behind her. She's also not the retainer I "place" outside the house. Wow how exciting, thanks for this!

Edit: Disappointingly mine does not have the tattoo I don't know if she lost it on my recent server transfer to Omega or if it was never there To the best of my knowledge she's never been retainer fantasia'd.

I also played during 1.0 but during beta I fantased

Adding to the above, the tattoo is not affected by the Fantasia and didn't come out until 2.0 itself (you couldn't Fantasia in any of the betas, only delete/create a new character and maybe you did that?). Most 1.0 players also didn't have to use a Fantasia to change their appearance, first time you logged in you had the option. Although I say most, it didn't work for everyone so they later sent a Fantasia to all 1.0 characters for free to fix those that didn't.