This is awesome... Why couldn't we have this?

[DSX]

He "quit" aka fired with dignity.

Beyond what you have seen, the game was broken. But it was wonderful none the less for what it was and superior to ARR and HW in many ways. The old Eorzea was full of danger, just ask any of us who unlocked all the Aetheryte camps and nodes.... omg that was painful but still fun.

I'm still rocking that title to date after getting all the nodes

I loved 1.0 it had alot of problems no doubt about it, but I really wish they were a little more true to the original game and design when they went to 2.0.

The biggest issue the game had was the engine, not the content.

I agree.
Tanaka was handed the engine they made for FFXIII (yes the first one) and was told to make due with it and make an mmorpg using that engine and was denied the request to make an engine for FFXIV to suite it's genre and nature. To make things worse they forced him to kick the game out the door more than TWO years of when it was supposed to be due initially because SE wanted it out before WoW next expansion was out.

There is much more to the story of why FFXIV ver1 came out the way it did than what I just mentioned.