Happy Rising! Let's look back.

[Syphin_Polaris]

Man... We need more threads like this. So much anger and negativity floating around for one reason or another anymore. I get people want their voices heard but damn take a breath once in a while...

I wasn't a 1.0 player, but I love seeing how things have changed, how people have grown, how people have bonded simply over a game. I started somewhere around the time ninja was announced/released, server transferred from Adamantoise to Midgardsormr to play with a friend, and ended up making more in the process. Lost some too, but you can't expect everything to be problem free I guess. Hard to believe how much time has passed. No matter the flaws or polish of FFXIV, its turned into something amazing for me, and no one can take that away.

[Ramesses]

Man... We need more threads like this. So much anger and negativity floating around for one reason or another anymore. I get people want their voices heard but damn take a breath once in a while...

That is the truth of it all, friend. Very true... and its one of the reasons why I didn't come to the forums for several extended periods of time. Sometimes, it was just so clogged with toxicity, it was beyond ridiculous. Funny enough, I saw the seed beginnings of that toxicity as far back as the 2.0 Alpha test forums.

By the way, here are a few more I randomly picked images from my files:


Foundation Day event and the insane amount of deaspected crystals received from fighting Atomos.





And that would be the horde of players racing to clobber the poor creature...








White mages galore... at one point in 1.0, healers were actually quite common...would you believe it?



This is how we celebrated after beating every wave that the GMs kept throwing at us during the orginal Calamity battle... those images are actually with fond memories because I tanked for over a couple hours that day and people just kept cure-bombing me like mad. And every time we rested inbetween waves, lots of fireworks to commemorate our victory.

Yeah... great fun and it was humbling to see soooooo many people really come together in unity. We kept fighting as if we we played hard enough, we could save the game





Plus we got to ride our mounts in town, which is how we were able to form the Gobbue walls inside Ul'Dah as well.



...And this is how it looked when things went south and very sour:








Our victory image after the first time we beat Nael on normal mode... I actually went as healer (which, back then, was the job class I enjoyed playing the most whenever I went into end game stuff). We also had one of the fastest completion times out there and I believe the video is on you-tube somewhere.



Fooling around having fun with some friends during the very last Xmas event on 1.0



This was one of the closest we could get to ishgard back then... the gates and then a broken down bridge somehere in Coerthas



By the way, Coethas back then didn't have snow... and it was quite scenic. Very engaging zone and it felt ancient as well.





And while in Coethas, this was one of the places you could level to 50 in the game (chaining mobs and wolves within the Ixal camp)

[Ramesses]

Below are some random pictures I have of Limsa... I have a whole folder but I just need to find time to upload them onto Imgur:

[Coombah]

[Ramesses]

Gridania and the Shroud (which used to be a nightmare to get around)...

[Mikita]

I have over 38,000 photos from v1. I know I need help.
Here are a handful of my favorites.

From the end of v1. Defending Ul'dah.


Voidsent spawning at Aetherytes as Dalamud loomed in the sky.


One of my favorites.


My LS would accuse me of goofing off during important fights. I don't know why!


More slacking on the job. Actually, because MP management was tough and we thought we could regenerate it faster by sitting down.


When we got our first Chocobos!


Some early swordplay.








Hiding in a corner and crafting in our underwear because stats didn't really matter and we could avoid gear damage.


Two of my best friends from v1. We still play together now.


Being the last person alive during a Skirmish and having 3 bosses chasing me down the beach.


From the opening movie for a Hamlet Defense.

[Ramesses]

Those are some wicked images, Mikita... and the funny enough, I just stumbled into my original save files so now I've found close to 8,000 images total. Yeah, taking screenshots of the game was definitely a thing.

Speaking of which, I also found a lot of my images for the final battles... Nael being psychotic, chatting with Gaius, even found the picture I saved of the "To Kill A Raven" strategy that someone posted online back then.





































And this last picture, I believe this may actually be the last part of that scene where we talk to Gaius until 2.0... I'll have to check my old images and videos to be sure...

[Coombah]

I miss this version of the game, so many memories.

[Pastel_Orchid]

I really enjoy this thread and look forward to more screenshots and stories being shared!

[Ramesses]

I really enjoy this thread and look forward to more screenshots and stories being shared!

Per your request...

First up, here's the an image of the last time I chatted with our legendary Sensei Louisoix in Gridania prior to Bahamut being unleashed:







Shroud area, just outside Gridania
















This is how the teleport crystals at the camps looked liked just before the Calamity...






This was when we had to go do a rescue operation to spring Yoshi's NPC character (the Wandering Ministrel) from confinement...












Just more images of the Dalamud about to fall on our heads... and once in a while, if you were quick enough, you could get a snapshot of the thunder and lightening happening...