Thread: To SquareEnix Could you provide the animations of FFXIV 1.x story line?

I'm pretty certain it's not really possible I'm afraid for several reasons (and by 'animations' I presume you mean cutscenes?). Unfortunately one very big reason why they haven't done it so far is the 1.0 models and environments no longer exist - SE disposed of them after ARR launched so any such "flashback" would actually have to be a reinactment or reconstruction using ARR models and environments, which are different, so it really wouldn't be the same cutscene.

Having said that one story cutscene from 1.0 was restored in ARR (the flashback to Raubahn's infamous gladatorial fight in the Colleseum which secured his freedom from gladitorial slavery and his place on the Syndicate was reconstructed as part of a post-SB main story quest), so it is possible. It would just be very time consuming to have to reconstruct every 1.0 story cutscene, so I do not see them doing this wholesale, but probably where the current storyline would require it.

The other important reason that is not apparent unless you were a 1.0 player is simple pragmatisim. 1.0's storyline actually was very disjointed between two seperate story arcs, one of which was never even completed and abandoned. The original 1.0 starting city story and the Path of the Twelve storyline involving Minfilia and researching the Echo was abruptly abandoned, and ended up being replaced by the 'Seventh Umbral Era' story that dealt with the formation of the Grand Companies to head off Nael van Darnus's renewed assault on Eorzea and the summoning of Dalamud (ARR technically picks up from this later storyline more than the former).

This wasn't actually as interesting as it sounds. Most of the relevant info is already shown throughout ARR anyway so you're not out missing much (and it should be noted much of the 'original' story has since been cannibalized for ideas and concepts for ARR's starting story anyway, so much of the same ground was covered, if not outright retconned.).

Also SE included a DVD with the Collector's Edition of ARR called 'The Waning of the Sixth Sun' that features the most important 1.0 story cutscenes as a sort of 'catch up', which I presume someone has probably since uploaded on Youtube so if you're curious about 1.0's storyline, or what there was of it.

Alternatively, this is a well done write up of what all happened in 1.X

https://gamerescape.com/2013/08/21/t...e-white-raven/

Having intent in the way of narrative =/= having the main story carry you through the leveling process.
The game was barely functional. If the current team can only focus on so much at once, the same applied to the old team, as bad as the internal communication was. There was little time before the leads were kicked out, and improving the playable experience was certainly a higher priority than the narrative.

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

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They're only disjointed because Yoshida had them retcon stuff and just abandon the original plotlines to pave the way to the Calamity. The last cutscene pre Yoshida hinted the Path of the Twelve and Circle of Knowing stories were going to converge, when we see the now-Scions reunited for the first time. The 3 starting stories did exactly the same as the current starting ones do, introduce you to Eorzea, the threat of the garlean empire and the city-states' localized drama. The diference being they had very different internal issues that weren't just 'bad ascian man manipulating evil people'. It's very easy to say they were never going to pick up from what we saw of the nations' subplot again when they were never going to get the chance to do so in the first place.

Things weren't also helped by the fact how the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami kind of interfered with the storyline as well - datamining in 1.0 has uncovered how the story was going to continue post Futures' Perfect quest (the last available 'Path of the Twelve' main scenario quest in 1.0), where the player eventually ended up encountering Titan fighting the Company of Heroes - Leviathan's model was also found but had no story connected to him at that point.

So it's clear a lot of the abandoment of 1.0's original storyline was simply due to SE deciding a story featuring Primals that created earthquakes and tsunamis was understandably just a little too close to home at that point in time for Japanese players, and so were put aside, and eventually once Yoshi decided to replace 1.0 with '2.0' (ARR), it was ultimately abandoned, being kept aside for inclusion in ARR. Once the 'Seventh Umbral Era' events began in earnest, the old story just kind of became irrelevant, a legacy of the 'bad times' of 1.0's original direction, so no wonder it ended up being abandoned.