Optional item request: Legacy Goobue mount

[Syldra]

Except the Cait Sith Minion, hiding that in PS4 preorders was very much a dick move from SE.

I got the Cait Sith minion from a PC pre-order. It was also available when the game first came out, not just for PS4 launch. As a matter of fact:
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If you didn't get a code, something went wrong.
If you played 1.0, you did have to pre-order a new copy of the game to get the code, I believe. At least that's what I did. I admit, that was kinda weird. Maybe there was a way around it and I just never found out?

[Lone-wolfe-02]

There is a reason we are legacy we enjoy Final Fantasy with depth and substance, we supported 1.0 after its failed launch. Due to its unfinished rushed release, it had issues. But it also had alot of potential, we remain loyal to square enix and support them. We hope that someday they will provide the world with the quality it deserves, but all we have gotten so far is a game design that breeds mouthbreathers. That cant even handle the optional quests in matoya's cave because they didnt get an UI to light up and hold their hand, and they would have been forced to think but that hurts for that kind of player. So we return to waiting, because we have patience.

Wow. Just wow.

[Jandor]

I have 35 years experience playing MMOs, including literally hundreds you've never heard of because you're not hardcore or sexy enough. In fact I've played so many MMOs so thoroughly that my knowledge of the genre cannot be surpassed. Women find me irresistible as a result.

Anyway, you're all hopeless noobs. Eat it chumps.

[Aegis]

I have 35 years experience playing MMOs, including literally hundreds you've never heard of because you're not hardcore or sexy enough. In fact I've played so many MMOs so thoroughly that my knowledge of the genre cannot be surpassed. Women find me irresistible as a result.

Anyway, you're all hopeless noobs. Eat it chumps.

^^^

What this thread has turned into, which, to be fair, is what most threads of this kind of topic turn into.

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[Karalie]

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I'm sorry but am I the only one who thinks every post you've made so far sounds something along the lines of "whine, cry, pretend to be better than legacy players"? There were a few like you on the 2.0 beta forums which is why we actually found you a theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_eBTkB-rs give it a listen. *retreats to her little corner*

[Lycinder]

I'm sorry but am I the only one who thinks every post you've made so far sounds something along the lines of "whine, cry, pretend to be better than legacy players"? There were a few like you on the 2.0 beta forums which is why we actually found you a theme song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_eBTkB-rs give it a listen. *retreats to her little corner*

No in fact I was just telling the other person that looking down on people just because the weren't 1.0 players and saying that 2.0 caters to a "mouthbreather" community was a shitty attitude and then I got offtopic from that about what constitutes grind and mindnumbing grind and tried to refocus on the fact they had a shitty attitude.

I don't think I am better then legacy players but I do look down on people with a shitty attitude.

[Asierid]

Why do most new players sound salty they missed 1.0 but are trying to hide it with the whole "it was garbage" thing to try to hide the saltiness, I bet you're the type of guy hate on new players on other games that you've been a part longer than.

Give it a year and we'll see you on these same forums saying stuff like "back in 2.0!!! The game was a lot better bards didnt have cast times!!!"
i hope others hit you with that same rhetoric "bards were changed for a reason they were horrible without cast times"

P.S. i dont care whatsoever for brds nor do I play them this was just an example

I'll give you another shot if you want. I know picking random observations out of thin air is a skill and all. If you're going to attempt to call someone out, at least put some effort into it.

You're funny. Join date is your first clue. The second amusing part is this:

I bet you're the type of guy hate on new players on other games that you've been a part longer than.

I don't...what? This not only makes no sense, but the rather poor attempt at even constructing a valid counter argument at this point shows. Clearly.

Third. What do BRDs have to do with factual evidence supporting that SE was in the hole (Up to the brink of bankruptcy, part of which is due to 1.0) back in 1.0 up until after 2.0. So not only does that comparison not make any sense, (and not backed up with anything aside from poor sentence structure) but it has nothing at all to do with the "1.0 wuz betur" train that you people seem to want to ride to hell and back.

Besides. BRDs had it coming, but that is for a different thread. Mobility/Utility/decent damage do not mix. That's like MMO balancing 101. A more valid point to prove your playtime, and to note about the difference between 1.x and 2.x would be when (A small group of) WARs thought they should be using DEX instead of STR because the job was so broken. But I digress.

tl;dr: 1.x was bad, you should feel bad for wanting it back and thinking it would work. Yes I've been there. No you're wrong, the above is why. Go home and try again. It was garbage. The numbers state it was garbage. The players stated it was garbage when they left. The other nine people you waved to in the game does not save it from this fact. Anything said after the fact is just personal opinion (And a very wrong one, mind you) that has no place in a valid argument because the numbers prove otherwise. So yes, 1.x was garbage and will always be garbage.

OP: No. You don't get the gobbue. Just deal with it and ride the other one. You didn't miss much anyway.

[Ryans]

But...it was garbage. If it wasn't then we would be playing that version of XIV and SE wouldn't have to waste all this money on reworking a poorly executed idea from the start. Just because the guy that takes over happens to make a few parts of memorable content doesn't mean the game wasn't an empty, terrible shell.

You can hand over the nostalgia goggles now...

Did you play in the last few weeks of 1.0? It wasn't an empty shell. The game had to be remade because it's foundation was built on a sinkhole (servers are the sinkhole if you didn't get the metaphor). The combat, job system, stat system, and dungeons/trials had plenty of life to base a game around and were more complex than what we currently have in a lot of ways. They decided to take it in a more traditional approach because of the whole "tried and true" mentality. They had no room to take risks with the amount of support they lost. ARR is a success, no doubt about that. But 1.23 could have been fleshed out on new servers and been just as much fun.

[Velthice]

But 1.23 could have been fleshed out on new servers and been just as much fun.

As a legacy player I'm glad 1.x is dead an never coming back. Even in 1.23 it was not fun to play. It was slow, plodding and terrible. I will glady take a simplified battle system that's actually fun, over the clunkiest trainwreck that took forever that was 1.anything. Go look up the fight with nael van darnus at the end of 1.23. The fight took 20 minutes (which should tell you something is wrong right there) and for like 99% of the fight it's just people stacked on top of each other slowly casting weaponskills. Boy howdy, what fun that was! It was a bad game, it was always a bad game. It got less bad as it went along but it never stopped being a bad game. Now it's dead and it's never coming back. Good riddance.

[Mihana]

Tell you what... Let's do the following:

• Allow players to buy "Legacy" status via the Cash Shop.
• Allow players to purchase the Goobbue mount from the Cash Shop.
• Allow players to purchase the Legacy Chocobo mount from the Cash Shop.
• Allow players to purchase the Mark of the Twelve (Legacy Tattoo) from the Cash Shop.

And while we're at it, for an additional fee, you can also upgrade your account so you get the same discounted fee as players who continued to support the game got! That's right, even you, the guy who decided the game was utter crap and came back later, can look and have all the perks of the other guy standing in the corner there who kept on paying and supported the game!

Look, back in version 1 they allowed players a short time of free access before the servers shut down to get your own goobbue mount from the Wandering Minstrel. If you had an account in good standing you could have logged in during that brief period of time and got the mount for yourself. People got this, the Legacy tattoo, the status, the bird, and the discount all for supporting the game when SE needed the funding to revive a game that was deemed by most as an utter failure. Now I get some people couldn't afford it, maybe they had real life problems, something else hindered them from supporting the game like they wanted to. Unfortunately it's too late to get those rewards, the incentives to keep paying for a game that may have ultimately tanked if A Realm Reborn was a failure as well.

The cash shop is a good way to support the game and get old items that were exclusive to players of the original game before the reboot. Things like the Moonlet, clothes, helmets, things like that. But putting in items like mounts that were given to players as a thank you for showing support when the developers needed us the most is the wrong way to go about doing it.