Question from the original FF14

[Rextab]

I have read up on the story from the original FF14...and I love the cutscenes that explain it all.
But I had a question. How much of that was played interactively? Did players participate in battling Bahamut and fight along side Louisoix?
Were the "heroes" NPCs in the original?
Or did these events just happen "between" games and no player interaction?

[Enkidoh]

Well, the 'battling Bahamut and fighting to protect Louisoix' was really only a video that was the culmination of the events leading to the original game's shutdown - on the last day of original service of version 1.0, anyone who had ever had a version 1.0 account had their character restored and were able to login to the game to participate regardless of their then current subscription status - in the final hour of service players were constantly directed to the (now non-existent) Camp Brittlebark in Mor Dhona for 'the hour of reckoning' via system messages in the chat log - but it basically just involved fighting endless groups of high level Garlean soldiers and magitek Vanguards and Juggernauts. Then the game ended abruptly with the servers shutting down, and the launcher updating with a link to the 'End of an Era' trailer - representing the Calamity.

It was a fun way to send the original game off, but unfortunately, given the instability of the version 1.0 servers and the buggy nature of the game, most people like me ended up with the 1.0 equivalent of a 'Code 900000' error and couldn't log back in (this happened to me with about half an hour to go). It was still fun though and something I'll never forget.

It should be noted that the actual Carteneau Flats where the 'final battle' takes place in that video was actually completely inaccessible to players, hence why players instead fought battles around Camp Brittlebark.

Also Louisoix before then was a specific npc who normally resided in Apkulla Falls in Gridania and was the npc who gave players the quests to battle the Primals (he stood where Y'hmitra now stands - in fact, there's an npc in that area now in ARR who cryptically refers to Louisoix's former location there ).

[AmyNeudaiz]

Lore wise we (the 1.0 players) were not part of the battle at Carteneau Flats, but we were part of a diversion force of adventurers who fought very high level Garleans and their Magitek H-1's and Juggernaughts around Northwest of Camp Brittlebark which is in the no longer existing southern half of Silver Tear Lake.

If we hadn't then they would of been able to reinforce from Castrum Novum, the now Castrum Centri I believe, and overwhelm the Main Host and win the battle outright.


I am remembering this off the top of my head, so please correct me if I've made any mistakes.

Also Louisoix before then was a specific npc who normally resided in Apkulla Falls in Gridania and was the npc who gave players the quests to battle the Primals

So annoying when someone in your party forgot to turn in tapers lol... Happens every time.

[IrisBlanchimont]

In the Echo of Carteneau you get around Level 15, the leaders of the Companies refer to the 'foreigners' who were not part of the main battle, those were the 1.0 players. The people you see in the battle in the End of an Era trailer are native Gridanians, Ul'dahns and Lominsians who made up the bulk of the Grand Companies; very, very few of whom survived.

[Felis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wizMioA0Xg

There were more players and garleans than you can see.
Very good graphic come with a cost, like limiting showable objects (players, enemies, NPCs) to 30.

[Rextab]

sounds like a very cool way to end it....well...by ending it world ends...servers go down.

[AmyNeudaiz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wizMioA0Xg

There were more players and garleans than you can see.
Very good graphic come with a cost, like limiting showable objects (players, enemies, NPCs) to 30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzLUASTdV5g Better video imo

[Falen]

I don't have the mental capacity right now to find it, but the Job-ed out WoLs in the End of an Era and A New Beginning scenes were never in-game NPCs, although they were the characters from various other FFXIV cinematics, mainly the original one with the Malboro fight. The story is something like the Hyur had the Echo vision of that party and eventually went out to find them. Most of those characters (except the male Elezen) became the party members in the EoaE and ANB scenes. I can't wait to see more of Derpy-Hyur, as I'm sure he'll be in the first expansion's cinematic trailer.

[Enkidoh]

Actually, word-of-God says (a la, Ferne), that 'Derplander' and his party are both a metaphor for the player's own character, and are also actually unique npcs of their own. There was a huge thread made by Moose on the old 1.0 Lodestone (now archived) which went into great detail about that (and other 1.0 storyline-related material, in fact it was what effectively caused SE to add this Lore section to the forum in the first place, that thread became so bogged down it was decided it warranted it's own forum!). This is the thread in question: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...9-CG-Midlander

I admit it was that thread that drew me to finally signing up on the Lodestone in the first place after resisting it for so long ).

[rina_inverse]

sounds like a very cool way to end it....well...by ending it world ends...servers go down.

not just XIV server
I believe that we also crash youtube server that day. at least XIV official channel