Thread: Stuff I Miss From 1.0

Oh. Custom font. That was a cool feature.
But from what I understand, that can be really taxing on a system.

Originally Posted by Munba

The 'dreams' (in the INN) feature/content was cool. Hope it returns in a deeper form.

"You had a vivid dream of running through vast fields in the company of cats." :3

Originally Posted by Antanias

"You had a vivid dream of running through vast fields in the company of cats." :3

.... or incubating an egg!

You could also get a fish but I don't remember the text you'd get.

The old Mor dona was more complex and had a certain darkness the new one lacks, it wasn't just the overcapped mobs, but the landscape was cooler. Also the purple haze weather for the NM made things even more eerie and the dragon/keeper of lake skeleton looked really good in 1.0. I miss the rainbow basilisk, much cooler mob. The music even was so dark, every person I met hated to go into Mor dona, it was soo dangerous. Just opening one of the few camps was a task for a few players to do.http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsX-WGML4So

Not having duty finder. I understand how it's useful to people and nobody will probably say a word against it because of this, but I believe it single-handedly killed most of the community going into 2.0. There was something special about having to find people to do things with, and waiting together. (Huddled outside of darkhold in coerthas for instance.) Having to rely on people, rather than just be teamed up with randoms, required people not to be so morally corrupt as they seem to be now populated throughout the servers. (There were still some around in 1.0, but not at all near the volume it is now.)

I know 1.0 was more of a niche game, but alot of people did play it and considered it their niche game. Some of the things praised in 2.0 are not all that highly regarded with the fan base that tried to keep it alive from the beginning. (And not even necessarily that well-loved from new players either.) Now we are more or less just along for the ride, hoping some of that magic returns from the mysterious game from just a year(s) ago. It's not nostalgia that we 1.0 players pine for since it wasn't even that long ago we were there! I worry that I needlessly cling to this game for the hope of a return of some of the things that drew me in from the beginning that will never be filled or replaced. Surely other players are in the same predicament as I am. Sometimes there are glimmers of hope, and I continue to subscribe, but for each glimmer, there is something disappointing paired with it.

I feel the same.. i miss old FFXIV for open world (dungeons too)! more dangerous areas, better graphics (no visible pixels ~w~ like minfilia's ears lol or grass or some parts of gear!), also better movement animation! in FFXIV 2.0 i feel like moving an object instead of a character -No Immersion- .