The Rising

[Kosmos992k]

The rewards from this event are actually really good. Thanks SE, this looks like it will be memorable even if only for the rewards.

'Answers - Reprise' is such a nice gift from the dev team to 1.0 players. Their last moments in the original release were played out with that haunting echoed tune.

I didn't get to play 1.x, but I have watched several videos of the 'end' made by players. It's quite emotional really, the game I played before FFXIV was summarily killed online in the West by Sony/D3/Level 5, and I remember the emotional sting of saying goodbye to my old world. So I feel great empathy for players of 1.x who were there at the end. Even though I wasn't there myself, I still feel some of the sense of loss from the shared experience of losing a world. The Answers reprise is an amazing musical catalyst for that, it somehow manages to encompass the emotions, or at least trigger them.

p.s. Chibi Lyse is prettier than 'real' Lyse...lol