Moonlight Faire's "Answers" version

[Dijana]

I still have a bunch of screenshots from that last day when that song was playing



A bunch of people just standing outside the main cities, watching the ships flying overhead, system messages going nuts about units that have lost contact, Hydalaen's mournful song filling everyone's ears as we all stood ready to face the end of the world side by side.

....And then the servers abruptly disconnected and everyone got mad as they redirected us to youtube to watch the video of dalamud falling and bahamut breaking out. I mean, I don't really know what we were all expecting, but we were expecting SOMETHING to happen just before the servers went down.

Haha...I also just realised I've had this bandana thing going on since the start of 1.0 seeing my old screenshots again.

[Deedsie]

I do wish I could have witnessed it myself, but like many others, I simply did not have and could not at the time afford a computer good enough to play it on.

[Ilenya]

I only vaguely remember doing much around the end, so I don't actually recall the music. At the time I was in too much shock over the idea of CoH closing that I was pretty much only on FFXIV because it was something to distract me. I was there for the last day, though I ended up stuck in Limsa, since my attempt at getting to the battle ended with me being killed on the way by something waaaaaaaaaaay stronger than my level 25 self.

[Amelia_Pond_Behemoth]

I preordered Curtain Call a while back. I hope Answers in that game has no sound effects.

[Gramul]

....And then the servers abruptly disconnected and everyone got mad as they redirected us to youtube to watch the video of dalamud falling and bahamut breaking out. I mean, I don't really know what we were all expecting, but we were expecting SOMETHING to happen just before the servers went down.

Ugh. I remember that. Still, I did get to participate in the battle in Mor Dhona. Makes me feel nice to have been in what the cutscene portrayed.

[Tharian]

actually, the music currently playing is not a variation of Dalamud Answers. It is the version of Answers that could be heard in the opening sequence of Final Fantasy XIV version 1.0 as seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU5N24_5VIk

And yes, for those that are interested, that is the entirety of version 1.0's main scenario cut scenes.

Also, for those of you that were actually worried about being vaporized when Dalamud touched down, I kindly point you in the direction of this video and while watching that video keep in mind that Dalamud is hollow.

[Giantbane]

There was an offhand comment made about doing something similar to the 1.0->2.0 transition for 2.0->3.0. If it were so, I would be extremely happy, since I absolutely loved the way that event played out in 1.x. That being said, they're kind of running out of time. The 1.0->2.0 transition worked so well because it was gradual, and went almost without notice from patch to patch. It took from 1.20 to 1.23(c) to fully complete the event. Meanwhile, it seems like a good estimate that 3.0 will occure after 2.5. This is due to the fact that we know that there will only be one more turn of Coil (2.4) and the World of Darkness is the last CT (2.5). Now, it's very possible they will surprise us with a Command Room of the Binding Coil or something like that and include a 2.6, but chances are low. That means if they are going to implement an epic story told over several patches that leads up to 3.0, they're kind of out of time. They could probably still pull it off by making changes in the 2.xx patches as well as the 2.x patches. That would give them up to 6 chances to move the story foreward.

They've already shown us at least one place the xpac is going. Still have at least 2 more major patches before 3.0 (3rd coil & 3rd ST) and all of the inbetween patches too.

[Metatronn]

Ah, the Dalamud Answers, i was overcome with joy when i hear this music in the rising event, i could not believe it. I play games for their history, and so i want to knew what happened in 1.0, so i eatched it all on youtube. The last days of patch 1.23b were wonderful, mysterious, ghastly. I wish i was there there with all the legacy plyer. I watched all footage on youtube of many ppl recording rhe last days. The whole community sounds so peacefull, so united. I wish we could be this way in ARR.