Thread: 1.0 server

Originally Posted by Nici

My old pc at the time couldn't handle it, playing the game as a slide show was impossible, i think i only played like a few days of the beta and just hit the uninstall button at the end...it was such a horrible experience, unlike ARR right now which i love so far.

When I first got the game, this is what it looked like at the settings I was able to play it at. Even with this there was lag.
(Note: this is not actually my screenshot, but it is exactly what the game used to look like.)


Around 1.18 I got a new computer, so I started playing again then, but even then it was a budget machine so at best I was using the standard setting. The frustrating thing about 1.x was that the standard setting was pretty much what should have been low, since anything less than standard was a significant downgrade in quality. Especially pixelation of not only the environment, but the nameplates. I mean why even release a game with a supported graphics setting that results in the text being illegible and most environmental features indistinguishable? Even FFXI looked better at minimum settings than that did.

And that's not even talking about the slow as molasses UI. Opening up a merchant's store interface or your retainer could easily take up to 30 seconds, especially if you were in the Ul'dah which was the hub equivalent of today's Revenant's Toll. Probably the biggest derp I've ever encountered in a public release of a game.

In dream world, I would love for there to be a 1.xx server with its serious flaws taken care of so I can experience it for myself. With the way veterans have spoken about it, that version sounds like the game I should be playing.

They actually were going to keep the servers up depending on how many people logged on to say they wanted to keep it. Due to the data, was not enough people who wanted it.

Originally Posted by AngelMoon

They actually were going to keep the servers up depending on how many people logged on to say they wanted to keep it. Due to the data, was not enough people who wanted it.

Yeah since at the time people only cared to hear SOMETHING..ANYTHING about ARR/2.0 lol.

Originally Posted by AngelMoon

They actually were going to keep the servers up depending on how many people logged on to say they wanted to keep it. Due to the data, was not enough people who wanted it.

~This. I actually logged in pretty much every day the 1.0 servers were back on for that month and a bit at the end of 2012, and I only ever saw like two or three other people on my server - in fact one time I did a search and I was literally the only one logged into Ridill.

Most 1.0 players didn't bother logging back in because nothing they did was going to carry through to ARR, hence they felt there was no point in having the servers back, especially those players who had already done everything available in 1.0.

I admit I'd love to see the 1.0 servers brought back though, but more for sentimental value (and no, I'm not one of the '1.0 is better than ARR' brigade) - I'd just like to play it again for old time's sake.

Originally Posted by AngelMoon

They actually were going to keep the servers up depending on how many people logged on to say they wanted to keep it. Due to the data, was not enough people who wanted it.

They actually did keep them up, because the survey met Yoshi's minimum response for that. Iirc the final save was at the end of September or beginning of October, which is when they would have shut down, but they kept the servers live due to the responses on the survey. They were then shut down in November because not enough people were actually playing. I.e. the player base didn't put their money where their mouths were.

lol @ hipsters