Veteran rewards

[Packetdancer]

if I could go back in time I still wouldn't play 1.0 because lmao that game was bad. Which is why I didn't play 1.0 in the first place and why I don't have the veteran rewards. They're more of an apology than anything "sorry you played the bad game".

Ouch. You're not wrong, but still... ouch.

There are so many horror stories about how the market system used to work (to give you an idea, you could probably safely say that the current housing system is more or less the residential version of how the 1.0 marketboard worked), or anima budget causing you to periodically just not be able to use aetherytes at all (which was super fun in the Black Shroud, let me tell you), and...

As I've said before, 1.x was a mess of jank and downright baffling design choices. It's just one we can be vaguely nostalgic for now. Y'know, from a safe distance (i.e., the better part of a decade). Sort of like the way you can appreciate the pretty colors of an oil slick on water, in the abstract, even as it completely destroys the ecosystem.

Sometimes I think the biggest reward for playing FFXIV now is simply "continued relief that we're not playing 1.0 any longer".

[Platinumstorm]

Ouch. You're not wrong, but still... ouch.

There are so many horror stories about how the market system used to work (to give you an idea, you could probably safely say that the current housing system is more or less the residential version of how the 1.0 marketboard worked), or anima budget causing you to periodically just not be able to use aetherytes at all (which was super fun in the Black Shroud, let me tell you), and...

As I've said before, 1.x was a mess of jank and downright baffling design choices. It's just one we can be vaguely nostalgic for now. Y'know, from a safe distance (i.e., the better part of a decade). Sort of like the way you can appreciate the pretty colors of an oil slick on water, in the abstract, even as it completely destroys the ecosystem.

Sometimes I think the biggest reward for playing FFXIV now is simply "continued relief that we're not playing 1.0 any longer".

Haha, I miss the market wards so much. The best music, the retainers everywhere. Most importantly, I zoned in explicitly on lower levels items like bone harpoons and wands. They were easy to make, and because I was consistent, people seemed to buy from me all the time. 110-180k gil for a bone harpoon. Now it's GET THAT PRICE 1g under everyone else.