R.I.P. Final Fantasy 1.23b :(

[Tiago]

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

It must have been lonely to play all that time as solo
I had all my stuff done so there was no point in continuing doing anything else (as there were no ppl for fights such as Garuda, Ifrit, Nael Hard Mode, etc) But i though a day was enough to make a video of both storylines and convert the files while at it, but nope... It hardly happen and had no time left to take screenshots :\\\\\
Altho, i'll miss alot of stuff from 1.0... Just not the lag lol
Loved the story, loved the graphism, loved the battle-system (combo ws's), had alot of fun with friends, loved boss fights, loved the soundtracks, loved the 3 months of play i had since August to November.
Thanks for the great game (aside from the lag) that XIV 1.0 was!! Hoping i get as addicted or even more to XIV 2.0!

[Enkidoh]

It must have been lonely to play all that time as solo
I had all my stuff done so there was no point in continuing doing anything else (as there were no ppl for fights such as Garuda, Ifrit, Nael Hard Mode, etc) But i though a day was enough to make a video of both storylines and convert the files while at it, but nope... It hardly happen and had no time left to take screenshots :\\\\\
Altho, i'll miss alot of stuff from 1.0... Just not the lag lol
Loved the story, loved the graphism, loved the battle-system (combo ws's), had alot of fun with friends, loved boss fights, loved the soundtracks, loved the 3 months of play i had since August to November.
Thanks for the great game (aside from the lag) that XIV 1.0 was!! Hoping i get as addicted or even more to XIV 2.0!

Mmm, it did get lonely at times, but I'm kind of used to 'solo-playing' on MMOs (when I started FFXI years ago I didn't have any friends playing, and took ages before I made any friends in game), so it wasn't too bad.

Sadly though it was kind of my fault anyway, as I chose the wrong server to play on (I didn't realise at the time I signed up for XIV that all my FFXI friends who had started on XIV had moved to different servers from the one I thought they were on (Selbina, which became Ridill). Hence I only had one person on my Friend List who was never on.

Ah well, from what I understand 2.0 will allow us to change servers so that shouldn't be a problem for me anymore.

[Zehira]

Mmm, it did get lonely at times, but I'm kind of used to 'solo-playing' on MMOs (when I started FFXI years ago I didn't have any friends playing, and took ages before I made any friends in game), so it wasn't too bad.

Oh me too, maybe we should be friends.

Thank you SE for making 1.xx free period of time so I got my friends a chance to try it and they loved it for what they saw it and I was keeping them updated about what's up with 2.0. I was enjoying it but I started considering about a monthly fee until I saw their artworks and plans for 2.0 and that got me excited enough to pay them because Yoshi-P seems a good man to me. ^^d

Good-bye FFXIV 1.xx.