Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
You think you do. You may think that. You don't.
This x1000.

I know a lot of people look back at FFXIV 1.x and see things like the surprisingly good animations (both in-game and in cutscenes), and that there was all this story leading up to Carteneau which is still referenced in the modern game, and think "Gosh, I wish we could play that."

But you don't. You really, really don't. Those animations were lovely and characters felt like they had weight, but it made actually moving during combat infuriating (because you couldn't just stop, or turn quickly). There were so many things that just felt like "Who even thought this was a good idea?" Imagine the housing system we have now... but applied to how you sold goods to other players. That was the 1.x market ward system, which I have described before as "That was sure a thing which existed. And now does not. Which is Very Good."

1.x was a buggy mass of technical jank and poor design choices. It's just a buggy mass of technical jank and poor design choices we can be nostalgic for now. You know, from a safe distance.