Lets travel back to 2010!

[Arv]

Today I was checking the forums and I was reading about the things that players do not like right now about FFXIV, so just for fun... I decided to jump back on time just to check and remember how game was back then. XD

This thread is NOT to post the things we hate or the things we want to change, this thread is dedicated to the players that has been here since beta, this thread is to show my support to Yoshi and the Dev. team, because if we compare what we had to what we have now its just unbelievable lol...

Cant wait for 2.0!

Ok, so why dont you guys help me remember? :P
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2010 here we are! I'll add some examples:

Do you guys remember...

-When we started we just had 8 leves total, and we had to wait 36 hours for refills? XD

-My undergarment is broken! oh wait i can't take it off to repair it, damn it >_< lol

-We needed to get SKILL POINTS for our classes -.- c'mon mages stand in front of the mobs, you guys need to get hit to earn some points.

-There was no "SEARCH" function in markets... so u had to check row by row and retainer by retainer

[Arkine]

We had a stamina bar.

[TimonLoon]

The battle system in Alpha that was dreadfully boring...

The stamina gauge introduced in Beta that didn't help matters.

200-300 exp used be REALLY good while crafting.

Faction leves and those HNMs were the only end-game content.

You needed 3 hands to play this game on keyboard effectively... Wait you sorta still do.

THMs were incredibly overpowered.


Just to name a few. lol

[Aryden]

15 man parties GO!

[Mijin]

Let's not ><

[Seif]

I remember missing quests like oxygen and sent literally dozens of emails about the lack of them to SE.
Oh god.
The funny thing is that when they added them they were just like leves.

Questing, quest cutscenes and fame are the things I still love about XI. Also the writing in my opinion is a lot better even in small quests.

Also the first time I went to fish was memorable. I couldn't help comparing it to XI again. Something that used to be a game was about 10 menus in XIV.

I also remember that mrd used to have some strategy in levels 5-15. You had to watch your aoe's around curious nannygoats.

Remembering the bumpy start gives me mixed feelings because even if 1.0 was improved a lot since then.
These specific features that were important to me haven't improved that much in 2 years.
2.0 can't come soon enough and I have no problem of letting this version go. I don't think I will miss it.

EDIT: AH! Omg that has improved a lot! I know it's still not a real AH but damn that caused flame wars like every day. I can't wait to see 2.0 AH.
MW confused me so much that no joke: I have used the sell function ONCE in 2 years.

[DarthTaru]

Heavy Stab! Heavy Stab! Heavy Stab!

[Soukyuu]

- NPC repairs only went to 75% and durability melted away like butter in the sun.
- You had to gather about 10 ingredients for a simple shortsword
- To craft a lvl5 sword you had to be lvl20(?) crafter
- You had to actually check every retainer in those wards to find an item
- No MP recovery

[Dhalmel]

>level 5 Gladiator
>wears level 48 gear

[Deceptistar]

a single craft took about 5 whopping minutes cause the UI was slower than slow to open.................... holy crap that was awful. It was literally the same speed as the beta.