Thread: Stuff I Miss From 1.0

Originally Posted by KiriA500

You wouldn't think that would matter. The game was so perfect in that state that it should have drawn players regardless of carrying over to the inferior version of the game.

Tons of people played during the beta tests, and those weren't recorded either.

No one said the game was perfect. And most of us still had no idea how ARR was going to exactly be.
Why bother continuing to replay when the new version was coming out and nothing we did anymore would count for it?

People played the beta tests because hey, shiny new game. But even towards the end of those I stopped bothering beyond basic bug reporting. I'm not saying ARR is bad, or even that 1.23 was perfect. I'm saying this was a wasted opportunity that resulted in an okay game.

Originally Posted by Gramul

This image?

Yeah, I WANT THIS game. Not what we have now.

Or at least 1.x again.

It's time to go back guys...

Originally Posted by Kirith

That question was absolutely impossible to understand without actually knowing what plans they had in place for the "changes". ...

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Agreed all through, basically..

Just to quote myself (oh hey and Gramul, too!) in an earlier, similar discussion?

Originally Posted by Fensfield

Originally Posted by Hawklaser

Originally Posted by Gramul

Still, would have prefered 1.0 get the chance to really become something special on its own. When I voted to drastically change the rules, I wasn't exactly expecting them to make a bolt for the obvious.

Same with me, too bad I can't recall if there was a middle option for only drastic change where needed.

There wasn't, it was a yes or no question. And that's basically why I voted 'No' for my part in the poll. No matter what, a Yes answer would come back to bite me on the proverbial arse somehow.

11. Would you welcome changes to FINAL FANTASY XIV that would drastically alter the rules already set in Eorzea?

Yes - 85.2%

No - 14.8%

(http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...98e4034b898102)

Looking back, it was obvious they weren't looking for an instructive reply. They were asking at the height of the rage over the state of things at launch, in over-simplistic terms without properly defining what they meant. They weren't asking permission, they were engineering a positive answer they could wave at dissenters in the event the v2.0 project went wrong. 'Well at least we listened to our customers!' they'd have cried, had it crashed and burned.

Now I'm not saying people would have voted against the rebuild had it been less manipulatively phrased and given more options, but seriously, looking back at the PR, the way they scapegoated Tanaka (yes he made some big screwups and all but they really went out of their way to play up his fault and keep attention away from Wada and co's role in things).. I can't see things any other way than they were betting everything on the answer being a majority yes. Thus the timing, the lack of details, and the lack of a middle ground option. Not that it wasn't an incredibly safe bet, of course.

Yes I'm a mite bitter about Player Poll 01. Bite me >.>

Originally Posted by misterrpg

... It's time to go back guys...

And if only. Sadly not only is it my understanding that recent changes to Final Fantasy XI have spoilt things rather decidedly (is there still a majority of the original to enjoy, there? How much longer, do you think? .. No really I'm trying to decide if I ought at least pick it up alongside >.>) ... I have always struggled with FFXI's character creation. I know it's shallow of me but when it's so limited that hair gets only two colours and its style is inextricably linked to which of the the three faces you choose..

Were those limitations for the sake of the PS2? I mean good lord that thing was about the same spec as the Dreamcast and that console's Phantasy Star Online got wildly more complex chargen options than we have now.

.. Gosh I wish they'd just give that game a few fundamental upgrades; even disconnecting hairstyle from face choice would go a long way. Weren't they talking about dropping PS2 support recently? I wonder what the chances are in light of everything's happened by now.

Originally Posted by Molly_Millions

Right, because mages should be able to wear plate armor.

Pff, yeah as if. It's not like one of the most important characters in the main story-

OH WAIT.

Seriously, Papalymo aside of course they should be able to.

Should it be the least effective thing for their class or somehow disrupt their magic? Sure. Should it lead to an entirely different and equally enjoyable style of play to those who wear robes? Even better!

I will never understand why some people find 'you grasped a wand and all your clothes fly off because wrong class' the more correct option than either penalising wearing something class-inappropriate or getting inventive with the effects of non-standard attire. That's akin to waking up one day to the real-world's universal constant suddenly dictating 'trousers should fly from your touch because as a girl you can only wear skirts or hotpants' and just.. accepting it.

Replacing the optimal attire system with one of level and class locks instead of fixing the original launch's poor systems balancing was a concession to limited development resources, not some blow for sanity and order in a world gone mad.

Originally Posted by KiriA500

One month into ARR and it's okay. Sure beats being a month into 1.0 and it being terrible.

Let's all forget that things can change. 1.0 and 1.23 were drastically different games. Who knows what we'll see with 2.23.

2.0's possibility of getting better is what I'm holding out on.