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.)

Originally Posted by Feilina

Crafting 1.0 ... what a great, complex and wide level spreaded system (imagine it would have been combined with the skill usage as of today!) wet dreams

The long grind to level up to 50.
It was a loong smooth way to the top, i loved it.

- Belts and they had pretty pretty belts
- Coerthas
- the better char models (in my oppinion; they've been so huge and detailed)

I think from 1.0, like you, I miss some of the crafting system complexities the most. I thought it was really good (it's good now too), and without all the lag and time it took to relay commands thought they nailed it.

Hopefully better character models will come with the PS4 graphic upgrades.

Originally Posted by Eshura

There's lots of people on this thread that found lots of things that they like, so your snarky reply is like "Really, I'm just on here to make snarky comments that don't really further the topic at all. I am wasting bandwidth!"

I think its funny that you think 1.0 was THAT terrible when I can name several mmos what were much much worse. At least 1.0 was playable. I am sorry though that your memory of the game is so bleak.

My memory is based in reality. Objective facts. It was SO bad, they scrapped it, fired the dev's and shut down the servers to start over again.
So...please, save it.
I am truly amazed that anyone stuck around, let alone a thread for " what do you miss".
Excuse me if I'm a little bitter for wasting my money on version 1. I was diluted into thinking the next FF title couldn't possibly suck. Boy was I wrong.

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...