It's really sad - and ironic that the original shutdown brought me back to the game after a few months out of it. And I've since accomplished a lot in the past month that I hadn't done before the final save maintenance at the end of September - got GLA to 50, unlocked PLD, even finished off the Path of the Twelve storyline all on my own , which I'm quite proud of.

Still, it's really sad to see the original version go out with a whimper rather than a bang - but at least SE gave us one more month than what was originally envisioned. And I'm grateful for that.

Anyway, I hung around for the last hour in Ul'dah before heading back to Gridania and the Inn where I put Enki to sleep moments before the servers went down, when I took my very last screenshot.

Yes, I'm saddened by 1.0 going down. But, as the End of an Era trailer said, 'with every end comes a new beginning.' 2.0 is going to be a brave new world for us all.

Farewell FFXIV 1.0 - 22-9-2010 - 31-12-2012