The Rising

[Kosmos992k]

The rewards from this event are actually really good. Thanks SE, this looks like it will be memorable even if only for the rewards.

'Answers - Reprise' is such a nice gift from the dev team to 1.0 players. Their last moments in the original release were played out with that haunting echoed tune.

I didn't get to play 1.x, but I have watched several videos of the 'end' made by players. It's quite emotional really, the game I played before FFXIV was summarily killed online in the West by Sony/D3/Level 5, and I remember the emotional sting of saying goodbye to my old world. So I feel great empathy for players of 1.x who were there at the end. Even though I wasn't there myself, I still feel some of the sense of loss from the shared experience of losing a world. The Answers reprise is an amazing musical catalyst for that, it somehow manages to encompass the emotions, or at least trigger them.

p.s. Chibi Lyse is prettier than 'real' Lyse...lol

[Felis]

I didn't get to play 1.x, but I have watched several videos of the 'end' made by players. It's quite emotional really, the game I played before FFXIV was summarily killed online in the West by Sony/D3/Level 5, and I remember the emotional sting of saying goodbye to my old world. So I feel great empathy for players of 1.x who were there at the end. Even though I wasn't there myself, I still feel some of the sense of loss from the shared experience of losing a world. The Answers reprise is an amazing musical catalyst for that, it somehow manages to encompass the emotions, or at least trigger them.

p.s. Chibi Lyse is prettier than 'real' Lyse...lol

The end event of 1.0 from the perspective of the devs
https://youtu.be/aoOI5R-6u8k?t=1496