Thread: The Rising Event! 1.0 Experience

Thank you for sharing these! I've seen videos, now screenshots. I read about the invasion but reading it in detail was really amazing. It feels like it made everyone feel way more immersed into the events going on in the world at the time. *_* I hope we get to experience something ground shaking like that, minus the server closing of course! Just ... bravo to the devs and the GMs for this amazing experience.

Thanks for posting all of these screenshots and info, and thank you to the kind person who shared a playlist, I'm gonna watch that later!

Looking at the descriptions of the experience, I can't help but be reminded of FFXI, with Dynamis having mobs invading cities (although it was instanced and not in the actual cities proper) and Besieged actually had a section of a city be invaded by attacking monsters. Some of these attacks decimated players that showed up to fight, especially when the novelty had worn off and fewer numbers came to defend.

I would have played 1.0 up to the end had my bf been able to run it on his computer, so we decided to wait for the then promised PS3 version of 1.0 that never came. We played alpha, beta, I even picked up the collector's edition and played some time after release but my main character's screenshots are currently lost (on a missing hard drive) but she only got to 15 conjurer or so. We stopped playing when the fees were implemented, as we couldn't justify paying for FFXI and FFXIV, as we wouldn't be able to play both enough to make the fees worth it and especially when back in Vana'diel I could actually play alongside my bf.

I regret what I missed, especially given I now play FFXIV over FFXI, but I don't have a time machine, so I rely on posts like this to show me what it was like.

Thank all you for sharing your photos from the end of v1.

After doing this year's Rising event, I also went back and looked through old photos and videos of that time. And how epic it was!

The world as we knew it was going to pieces. Aetheryte camps were no longer safe. People would teleport in and get slaughtered right away if Atmos happened to be around.


The cities were being attacked constantly. We were capped at level 50 with first generation Relic weapons, often gifted to us by the Twelve. But facing level 70 to 79 and higher monsters... well, it was messy. But we had to protect the cities!


And then frantically running around trying to find the locations with symbols of the Twelve and pray before them, while Imperial troops were invading all of Eorzea...


We knew it was hopeless, but we couldn't just give up.

Despite its flaws, I loved v1 dearly and will cherish those memories forever. It was truly "Once in a Lifetime".

I'll chip in with some of my own end of the world screenshots.


One of the many city battles taking place in Ul'dah.


The Limsa area also had Imperials invading its shores. Had to show this one who had the better axe.





The boss waiting for us at the end of the main scenario.







Trying to be the best WAR that I can be


Of course sometimes you just want to go Black Mage and throw out a nice Flare.



And I'll guess I'll end with a picture of the location of the final quest.

The Cutscenes! the graphics! the Textures! the weightiness!!!!!! ugh I miss 1.0 so much.