Thread: The Rising Event! 1.0 Experience

Let's Fast Forward 1 Week.
Everyone is tired.. GPU is on fire..

everyone is gathering around Mor dhona for one last goodbye before the server shut down.


I just want to take a moment to say Thank you square enix for "The Rising" Event.. It has brought back so much wonderful memories. I'm so proud to be a legacy player and look forward to future content. Thank you so much...



Ending of the Sixth Astral Era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xOOFCltZuc

Shoutouts to all our healers.. What happened to you guys... You use to go out of your way to help and heal players. Now you laugh at DD when they get hit by aoe. Even when they die you have a smile on your face.. What has happened to you guys.




A moment of peace and quiet

I can still hear the /cheer /happy

They were fun times indeed. I do really, really miss that game.

Originally Posted by Boterote

"The two Armies clashed under the specter of the sanguine moon".

For those of you who don't understand this.. The Garlean Empire quite literally invaded all 3 city and killed players in town.

Not actually totally correct - the only city that was directly attacked gameplay wise (as clearly shown in your screenshots) was Ul'dah - Limsa Lominsa and Gridania never were. This was actually for technical reasons (as well as a sly jab at the players by Yoshi to stop idling in Ul'dah or at aetheryte camps all the time as it was literally breaking the game.). All those people clustered together in the one place for long periods rendered the Ul'dah Inn Room completely broken and inaccessible to the point SE could not fix it, due to 1.0's terrible server infrastructure and Crystal Tools being so impotent that it couldn't handle more than ten characters on screen at once, instead employing a work-around by entering it via an npc who was hastily added to the Gold Court, and thus you could never again access the Inn Room directly through the Quicksand in 1.0 - that work around remained in place to the very end. Thus clearly showing clearly to everyone the real reasons why 1.0 was shut down and replaced with ARR.

Still, the last day before the Calamity was an amazing event that I will never forget (even though I was booted off the server with an error half an hour before the end and could not log back in).

Not true, Limsa and Gridania were attacked inside the city, just not on the scale Ul'dah was.

I made some videos of the event so I could go back and watch years later. Enjoy :3

FFXIV End of the World Event

Originally Posted by Vilhem

Not true, Limsa and Gridania were attacked inside the city, just not on the scale Ul'dah was.

I made some videos of the event so I could go back and watch years later. Enjoy :3

FFXIV End of the World Event

Ah, thanks for that Vil, when I logged into the game I never saw any combat taking place in Gridania and Limsa (and curiously I've never seen any screenshots showing such attacks taking place there either, it's only ever been footage of attacks on Ul'dah, again probably because 1.0 Ul'dah was basically the 'Jeuno' of FFXIV ), it was always just in Ul'dah I ever saw it happen. But thank you for clarifying that (and the links to those videos too).

Sadly I didn't take many screenshots in the final days of 1.0 (mostly because I am ashamed to admit I only really logged in in the last month or so when things went to hell in a handbasket, as I was too distracted levelling my character in FFXI beyond 75), but this one, from not the 'original' last day (before the Calamity), but the real last day (when the servers were reactivated briefly for a month and a bit only to be shut down for good on New Year's Eve 2012) - I can't help but tear up inside when I see this (listening to 1.0's Piece of Mind while viewing this pic is fitting background to it). Also notice the 'farewell and thank you' message from SE as well, I thought that was a sweet gesture:



*sniffle*

Might as well share some goodies:











Side note: I am still angry at SE for taking away darklight boots from bards >_<

Also.. Hildibrand's exit from 1.0:




Bonus points from 1.0 that I miss a LOT

The *REAL* Miasma weather that would terrify the hell out of anyone that's in Mor Dhona when the weather kicks in.



the Ferry...even though it was buggy at first



...and the companion I've had..




...This Ifrit Cutscene

I've read bits and pieces about the lead up to the closure of 1.0, but this is the first time I've heard of these invasions - and I think they look epic. The Imperials are kind of soft in our version in my opinion, it would be great to see some kind of implementation of invasions that appear sporadically - even rarely. It would make total sense, even with a "master plan", there would still be occasions where Imperials encroached onto our territory, and we'd have to deal with it. Maybe rare fate spawns in city locations? Similar timers to Odin?