Thread: I Miss 1.0

What I miss about 1.0 is the slower pace gameplay, the need to plan ahead before you travel to another city. How world monster were actually a threat even at Lv.50. How gear dammage actually discouraging you from dying.


What I don't miss is the laggy menu. The high level monsters that blocked my path to Mor Dhona. The market place that was a nightmare to find what you need, you litterally wading through hundreds of retainers, and lastly the one thing that made me quit the game....Ifrit AOE lag.


Tried to get back into it after hearing about the Legacy campaign but I had really bad internet back then so I missed out....

Originally Posted by grinkdaboy

it's 2019, i don't see why not. i can understand because the ps4 and likely ps5 wouldn't be able to hand it either. i shudder to think of actually playing xiv on console

Because they want this game to have low-end specs to allow for a wider swatch of players, and that level of texture fidelity is /way/ too intensive for no pay off. They literally went over this at the last Japanese Fanfest when the asset team got to have a panel and they explained why the original version of the Crystarium that was teased before 1.0 dropped was illogical. (And for exactly the reason I listed. They literally made highly detailed light bulbs /WITH/ animated filaments in them that no one could see - to give you an idea of how extra they were about all the small details.) At some point graphical fidelity for the sake of graphical fidelity is a case of diminishing returns in MMOs.

Edit: Found the fanfest screenshot thread on reddit. Scroll down a ways and it's summarized.

Originally Posted by Losara

Nowadays players are more fond of fast paced combat. If anything a lot of people have complaints about our 2.5 second GCD and want it reduced to a 1.5 second GCD.

The day this happens is the day I formally quit XIV.

N I G H T M A R E

Are you wearing the pince-nez?

Originally Posted by mario710

The combat was slower but more strategic. It felt like a game of chess on a live battle field.

I would really like to see this form of combat return. It reminded me of Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door.

Wha- no, 1.0 was nothing like TTYD. Where the heck did you get that notion?

I do think 1.0's combat system had some potential, but it was not really more strategic and it certainly wasn't engaging. Even if it had been properly tuned where Feint wasn't the best thing in the game and you miss chance was under 70%, I still don't think 1.0's style would be better than what we have now. And this is coming from someone who really loves FFXI Classic's slow-as-hell combat.