Thread: Stuff I Miss From 1.0

I miss the crafting music and some of the older background music that is no longer used at present (city state/zone themes/some of the battle themes.)

I love ARR... But I've been disappointed since the day I understood it wasn't an improvement over 1.0, but rather WoW with a FF skin over it (I've played WoW since release up until 2 months in pandaria, I don't mean to hate it), but I'm tired of this kind of game.

The original version was aiming for so much more... I think I understand what Tanaka wanted to do and where to take the game and, ignoring the really terrible execution of his ideas, I'm convinced that the game was too advanced for it's time, or only that the current generation of gamers are not mature enough for games like what 1.0 could have been.

All of you that miss 1.0, or parts of it, be it from the original release (differentiated physical level and class level, mob behavior, crafters and gatherers being relevant, music, seamless world, etc), or from the Yoshi era (the balanced class system before the introduction of jobs, 1.19 combat system, the original materia system, etc), I agree with you all. We are missing a really great game for the sake of money (which SE really needed, but that's not the point of this thread). My only hope is that yoshi is using the current model to create a stable player-base (stable income) and then add through patches or expansions slowly some (or all) the great elements that FFXIV has been stripped of when becoming ARR.

I think it will be a long time since someone tries to break the mold of the MMORPG market like 1.0 tried, and I cannot wait until that happens again.

Meanwhile... I'll farm tomestones all weeks every week.

Edit: Oh, and also I liked by far the open world mob farming and the actual sense of danger in the fields. FATE farming is terrible compared to that, and way more stressing having to glue your eyes to the minimap so you reach the FATEs on time or else you don't get any reward because they end in less than one minute (with a few exceptions), than chilling with a party pulling mobos and nuking them while chatting and actually meeting new friends. Oh and the slower paced and tactical combat and the overall feel of the old game...

The only thing that is sorely missed by me is the open world. It was HUGE and, as a result, felt real. It felt like it was a world with dangers to the ill-cautioned explorer, and it had to be that way. An open world with minimal zoning effects in place needed to accommodate varied level ranges. Each individual zone had different elevated terrain to explore, so even if an area felt large, it was actually even bigger than that.

This game sort of has that too, but it's not quite the same in that there's minimal danger in exploration. Most areas are pretty straight-forward with no real detours to be curious about. For the most part, the zones are all right currently, but I really wish they didn't separate the individual cities into multiple zones. This is especially noticeable with Lominsa, as the whole appeal of the place was the elevation differences. It had a special appeal to the fact that you kept climbing higher and higher. You don't really get that now.

Otherwise, it's just little nit-picky things. Stuff like wishing they didn't have to reduce graphic capabilities.