Thread: Stuff I Miss From 1.0

Originally Posted by Balipu

- Maybe it's just me, but I don't play a multiplayer game to escape from people.

I think the difference is that in 1.0 you would group up with people in a hub (Like Ul'dah) then head out to traverse the wilds with them. The number of other players you would see would be smaller, but you would have more interaction with them. Whereas in 2.0 you either remain in the hub queued up for DF or flock to the 'open world content' (lol) as part of a zerg (FATEs, hunts circa 2014, etc). There's no exp parties, no chest key farming in strongholds, no primal key farming etc.

The reason there's none of this grouping up for open world content is because the areas are simply not dangerous and even if they were, there's no reason to visit them. Hunts were a brief change to this pattern while they were a good source of tomes, but they were zerg fests and not challenging because there's no realistic way to scale up a mob to deal with 100+ attackers.

Originally Posted by Magis

Long talk about story

Sorry got a bit ranty there.

Well the problem isn't really that there is a main story but that the questlines are isolated so it feals less like a world of interconnected stories. I mean, you do the main scenario, the hildibrand questline, the class and job storylines, the profession quests, the grand company quests and soon realise that all of those are completely separate from each other. The way I saw it in 1.0, the individual storylines were more connected. Urianger in the Hildi questline, Sisipu in main scenario, Nael van Darnus in Grand Company quests. It expanded the same story horizontally therefore gave the impression that both it and the world is bigger.

I still think ARR is a great game and it hurts to see most here think it is a piece of garbage abusing the Final Fantasy name, but there really are a lot of things that 1.0 did a lot better. Still it seems the world was not ready for 1.0-s innovations so drastic changes were necessary to make the MMO marketable. Perhaps gradually bringing back some of the old features could occur later. Untill then, enjoy all the stuff comming with 2.5

Originally Posted by Aegis

....in 2.0 you remain in the hub queued up for DF .There's no exp parties, no chest key farming in strongholds, no primal key farming etc.The reason there's none of this grouping up for open world content is because the areas are simply not dangerous and even if they were, there's no reason to visit them. Hunts were a brief change to this pattern while they were a good source of tomes, but they were zerg fests and not challenging .

Yes for this reason our community bonds are lacking. People do statics to remedy this, but not everyone can fit into a static. I'd wanna get rid of DF or restrict its access to harder/newer content like they had with second coil. But casuals are against this idea, they don't have time to spend an hour PF'in if it even takes that long for content. (1/2)

There is alotta people in the cities especially Uldah, but when you moved through each cities environment the world was so open it felt more adventurous. I really think they should've spent more than just a year developing this game to give us back that vastness, but right now they're just shoving endless content into such a tiny world that is chopped up into several zones.

Many of us veterans wanted just a engine that could support the games quality and massive world and support more content to be added. They've only done half the job and nerfed and removed alotta data to provide a smoother game at the expense of size and quality. If they had more time I'm sure they could've gave us the same world back polished up and running like a champ with issues fixed and content aplenty. 2.0 is a good game and its growing, but its not the same.

Speaking of removing things, alotta underground tunnels/dungeons that were non instance were taken from the 3 cities states. There was a certain pirate cave for lvl15 adventurers with hidden treasure games . Mun tuy cellars was a cave type dungeon non instance where a NM was located, also known to our pl groupies as the skele cave. Nanawa mines is also another one of these things. And in coerthas Natalan was a open world raid zone with treasure chests with special gear. Mor dona when you could actually travel through some of it, had castrum added to it as a open world raid zone. This brings us into our lack of open world content that 1.0 had better compared to now.

I just want the beautiful hotbar design and font back. That is all.