A shout out to the 1.0 players still here today

[Gemina]

Those were indeed crazy memorable times. I remember being part of the great gobbue wall. I remember taking part of the chaotic fun that was Ul'dah. I made a video of it, I remember seeing up to four Nael Darnuses running around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mTkNFrDqtY I remember the moon growing ever closer patch by patch waiting to smash us. I remember the chilling Dalamud Answers replacing the outer world music. I remember zooming around from place to place searching for Atmos.

I only wish the final day could have had more positive memories. I remember sitting with my friends and linkshell and linkshells gone past. Then the garleans came and with them the connection issues. I remember fighting between logging in, staying logged in. I remember giving up until something told me inside to try in the last five minutes. I managed to log back in and through the server lag teleport out of Mor Dhonna and out to La Nosche to run to my favorite spot in the land and log out for that last time.

The Ul'dah chaos reminded me so much of Dynamis in FFXI haha! Dalamud in the background and the thunderstorms along with the creepy version of Answers playing is really ominous. God, that must have really been something. It is too bad about the crappy connection issues, but I'd be more than happy with it if I had some screen shots of my character during this time, and the legacy chocobo and tattoo. Grrrr! You guys have such bragging rights!!

[Mirakumi]

I'm hoping one day that there will be a journey into the past thing, where we can go back to the lush green beauty Corthas had. The clouds that transitioned I would stay there for hours and hours just fishing. The Unspoken music - -

What I really just need is a zone where I can just hang out in and have that chill kind of vibe. Maybe its just me but I haven't felt the same nostalgic. In 1.0 there were many places even in Mor'Dhona where I would just pause and want to take a million screenshots because of its sheer beauty. Maybe knowing that the hard to reach places that were blocked around the hardest of monsters were more compelling to me. But I still haven't felt the same.

It's not a negative perspective. I still love the new content that SE pushes out but if 1.0 had anything that I miss was just the wholesome feeling like I was really an adventurer in a big giant world that could take me out without any second thoughts. Even at Max level.

[Aylis]

The Ul'dah chaos reminded me so much of Dynamis in FFXI haha! Dalamud in the background and the thunderstorms along with the creepy version of Answers playing is really ominous. God, that must have really been something. It is too bad about the crappy connection issues, but I'd be more than happy with it if I had some screen shots of my character during this time, and the legacy chocobo and tattoo. Grrrr! You guys have such bragging rights!!

I honestly don't really think of it as bragging rights. Personally I stayed just because I loved the world. Despite the flaws, despite the backlash, despite everything. FFXIV 1.0 was my FFXIV and always will be. It just had that magic and emotion in it for me. I stayed because I wanted to, not because of promised goodies. Though to be honest, the one thing I'm most proud and happy about from those days was having my name in the credits. FFXIV 1.0 was my FFXIV and that alone meant the world to me.

[polyhedral]

However, I'll never forget the complete butchering of the old Thaumaturge class.

Yeah, I really did not like the changes they made to this class, which I was main until the changes. I miss all of the absorbing and HP regain abilities soo much. It reminded me a lot more of BLM from XI than anything BLM in XIV currently has. My favorite spells for BLM in XI was drain and aspir, and I collected dark magic gear/merits for years in order to practically have my own refresh in Dynamis double dark weather. Now in XIV, BLM has nothing like this, at all. Just stand there and die without others healing you, more or less.

I really am salty over those changes more than most other changes I'm salty about.

[radhaz]

Regarding the high specs for playing 1.0, I built a beast of a PC for the time. One of the many problems with 1.0 was the high polygon count of environmental objects.
This New Year's event object would ramp up the fans in my GPU, and if I stayed next to it, the pc would crash. I call it the Kadomatsu from Hell:

[tymora]

Game disconnected me at the very last moment...orz

Crappy game mechanics and server limitations aside...(a lot of those lol)

What I missed from 1.0
1) Job change in dungeons. Some people hated it but this set FFXIV apart from every other game out there. Need blunt damage? Everyone into MNKs to bash the hell out of everything.
2) Unscripted instances - moves were semi-randomly chosen from what they can do, so it can get really challenging (fun fights but can be bad at times)
3) Speed runs and bonuses. Again some people hate it, but its pretty fun to aim for something aside the usual zz grind.
4) Elements mattered. So did resistances.
5) Round the clock parties.

Yoshida did a good job in those final moments of 1.x, for the reboot.

[Kerwin]

Game is going in the wrong direction and with the technical difficulties going on with the server, I'm surprised I'm still here too.

[Lissandra]

I was there from the start till the end of 1.0's life. Only regret I have is I didn't record it, but at least I took some random screenshots for memories.

[radhaz]

I was there from the start till the end of 1.0's life. Only regret I have is I didn't record it, but at least I took some random screenshots for memories.

Yeah, I wish I would have recorded more back then, like when I decided I could run past Lvl 90 mobs to get to that beach in La Noscea (ouch, lol) or when I made it to Owl's Nest. Beating the White Raven was pretty special too.
Good times, in retrospect.

[Suirieko]

Sometimes it's h ard to believe that I've been playing since Alpha, and still here...