How to get a Legacy Status?

[Dsherman]

There are two separate v1.0 things I have seen mentioned in this thread.

1. The legacy mark on your character

2. Legacy Status on the service account.

The legacy mark required only that the character existed in V1.0 as of the save date on October 31, 2012. If you picked up such a character in ARR, it will have the mark as long as that character is not deleted. It does not matter what level the character had. It could be any level from 1 thru 50. The character did not need to be active. It could have been created at any time from the beginning of service on September 22, 2010 until the save date on October 31, 2012. (It was not possible to make a new option to make a character after September 29, 2012, but if you already had a vacant option from before then, you could still create a character.)

The Legacy Status required that the Service Account for FFXIV have paid 90 days worth of subscription fees at any time during the period from January 6, 2012 until September 29, 2012. It could have been in the form of 3 30 day subscriptions, or 1 90 day subscription. The 90 day subscriptions were only offered thru June 30, 2012. But the 30 day subscriptions were available until September 29, 2012. The 30 day subscriptions did not have to be consecutive as long as 3 of them were paid within the stated period.

The legacy status would only apply to the one service account for which the subscription was paid. If there were other service accounts on the same SE account, they would not get legacy status unless they also had paid subscription in the noted time period. (It has always been possible to have up to 8 FFXIV service accounts and 10 FFXI/Playonline service accounts on a single SE account. Yup.... 18 total service account across 2 games on just one SE account.)

In addition, there was the special cutscene extras that could happen with a character that had been carried over. The very first CS at character creation time (the cart or boat ride) was altered for all characters that were carried over from v1.0. No cart or boat ride for those characters. All the other altered Cutscenes were only available to characters that had completed a very specific Quest in V1.0 called "United We Stand (city name)".