Thread: What 1.0 Did Better...

FFXIV V1.0's worst crime:

Copy Paste.

V1.0 Is this Camp Riversmeet?



V3.0's Camp Riversmeet (Western Coerthas)


Now look at other V1.0 camps:

V1.0 Mor Dhona Renevants Toll again


V3.0 Mor Dhona - Renevants Toll (Camp)

Pretty much every "camp", including Camp Dragonhead is nothing more than a tent.

V1.0 Camp Dragonhead


V3.0 Camp Dragonhead


Here's another one...

v1.0 Dusk Vigil

v1.0 Banepool


V3.0 Dusk Vigil/Banepool



V1.0 Prominence Point


V3.0 Providince Point/Steel Vigil

Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

Kisai, I get 1.0 copy pastad a lot of stuff, but what was the point in doing comparison shots between 1.0 and 3.0?

V1.0 DX9 and V3.0's DX10 performance is about the same on the same hardware.

The Western Coerthas areas are interesting because that's the only Large area that is even remotely comparable to V1.0's, even then it's still at least scaled down by half.

Camp Dragonhead and every "Camp" are essentially identical, only varying by the tents. Even the NPC's were the same and standing in the same place.

The Vigil's in Coerthas are also copy-paste's of each other in V1.0, where as in V2.0/V3.0 they are completely different looking, and a completely different scale.

I listened to an article that went into detail about Human and human memory: Memory and Forgetting

TLDR: The more you remember a particular thing or a particular event, the more susceptible it is to being altered (largely to a more extreme pole ; "either positive or negative"). So to those that say "X was the best experience ever", I highly doubt your claim based off your memory alone.

I remember camping YinYang Robe for SMN in FFXI. For a week straight. I set my clocks, I daydreamed about it during my classes, I would rush home to my PS2 to log in and recruit some LS friends. In my head it was the most taxing but rewarding experience. In reality, I leave out the part where I got sick from poor sleep and poor eating. Not my best choice regarding an MMO.

Originally Posted by MYFATHERBEATSME

Although FF14 still has one of the best communities, I agree that 1.0 had the absolute best community.

Cant say that i share your view on the FFXIV community, i think its filled with toxic and vile just like every other modern mmo.

Following is not directed at anyone in particular, just a generalisation.
In my experience most communities even though they can start out good turns to garbage, because ppl lose their way and forget where they themselves came from.
FFXI had a great community in the earliest years of its life, but even that had a decline in overall behaviors as time progressed. RoZ, CoP where great expansions great community, slow decline starting with ToAU and down a slippery slope it went.
How fast a community deteriorates into toxic, elitist garbage is generaly in line with what the games design philosophy is like.

Don't get me wrong there are nice people to encounter within the game, but they are few and far appart. You're more likly to encounter impatient, self centered, entitled players that dont allow others to play the game.

You might claim its my opinion and not fact, but i ask you to then think and notice how many times you encounter someone new in a dungeon. How many of them tell you with an appologetic tone how they havent done it before, but fear not for they have watched a video/guide.

How many times do ppl demand others to watch a guide, explain everything to everyone without being asked.

Ill be so bold to claim that it happens alot and is a fact. But it is my opinion that the behavior is wrong, and that people should play the game and be allowed to play the game. Defeat, wipe, learning is part of the playing a game with others experience. And the first time someone is at a new encounter it happens only once, so you might say you dont want to wipe because its wasting your time. You where also once new and at an encounter for the first time, and i hope for your sake that you got to experience it foryourself and learn from it.