Optional item request: Legacy Goobue mount

[Ryans]

NO.

Come on, I'm not even a Legacy player and I'd love me that goobbue as bad as anyone but this would be the worst thing. The people who earned it did so by playing a game that was absolute garbage. Let them wear it as a badge of honor for suffering through 1.0, as they do their tattoos and scorched chocobos.

I'm tired of people calling 1.0 garbage especially when they admit they didn't play it. 1.23 was when the legacy goobbue came out and it was a fantastic game at that time. There was no suffering on my part. The original Nael Van Darnus (Hard) fight was to this day the best boss fight I have ever done in any game.

[ElHeggunte]

I don't think they should bring it back, but only because SE said it was going to be exclusive to legacy players. Items that SE specifically said were to be exclusive should stay so. Items that just so happened to become exclusive because the game went belly up should be free game to be reintroduced.

[Enkidoh]

I'm tired of people calling 1.0 garbage especially when they admit they didn't play it. 1.23 was when the legacy goobbue came out and it was a fantastic game at that time. There was no suffering on my part. The original Nael Van Darnus (Hard) fight was to this day the best boss fight I have ever done in any game.

1.23 was a good, very passable game that still was fundamentally flawed (it still had the terrible cut and pasted zones which were virtually empty, the terrible connection issues, the laggy interface) - ARR may not be perfect but it is still light years ahead of anything that 1.0 accomplished (which for everything it did right it did so many more things wrong). But this discussion isn't about if 1.0 was good or not, its about once-only bonuses coming back, which I completely disagree with.

That is life - there will always be times where there will be something offered for a short time and it's a case of "get it while they last". If you're too late or unable to get it at that time for any reason, well, it's too bad.

The original goobue mount and the Legacy chocobo are examples of this, they were rewards for those who stuck with the game in it's darkest hour when SE needed the support. That was their whole purpose. If you didn't get them when they were available then you have missed out I'm afraid.

Thus they will always be exclusive - if SE ever did bring them back they would alienate the very fan base that actually stuck with them in the time they needed them the most, something no company would ever be that stupid or arrogant to do.

[Kaedan94]

As someone who played 1.0 alpha all the way till they shut down the servers, I have to say that the game improved by leaps and bounds by the time 1.23 hit. However, the above poster is right that it was still fundamentally flawed. There are a few things I would have liked them to take from 1.0 when they released 2.0.

One in particular is Anima or teleporting. I would love it if they brought this back. However, they should mix what we have now with 1.0... meaning you could spend gil to "recharge" your anima at crystal.

As for the Goobue, absolutely not. It was a legacy exclusive, same as the Legacy Chocobo or the Legacy mark on our characters. Allowing people to buy it would defeat the entire purpose and be rather insulting. Re-skins, exactly what you have with the Beastmen Goobue, are fine. To ask for the original is insulting.

I got the Goobue on one of my characters, but not the other.

[Emerald_Wyvern]

I'm conflicted on this. As a non-Legacy player who couldn't play 1.x because my pc was a popoto at the time, I do want this. However, it IS one of those things Legacy players deserve for sticking with the game. On the other hand, it's not like its the Legacy Chocobo or Mark. Not every Legacy player has it since, from what I read, it was from a side quest in Coerthas so it'd give both new players and old ones another shot at it. But then again, it would be devaluing the mount's significance. I'm fine if we don't get it, and I'm fine if we do.

[Antanias]

I'm tired of people calling 1.0 garbage especially when they admit they didn't play it. 1.23 was when the legacy goobbue came out and it was a fantastic game at that time. There was no suffering on my part. The original Nael Van Darnus (Hard) fight was to this day the best boss fight I have ever done in any game.

Actually the goobbue was made available in 1.20b and was obtainable until (I think) 1.23a back when lettered patches were a thing.

[dragonkyn20]

No. Keep the Legacy Goobbue with the legacy players. They earned the right to use it for playing through 1.0.

[Cedri]

I'm glad to see you all supportive of Legacy players, we get a bad wrap a lot of the time. Thanks guys.

[Cedri]

Also, what's next? Our back tattoos? hahaha

[Pluvia]

Kinda wish the mount was account wide ended up playing a difference character after one of my statics fell apart