Legacy Achievements

[Ramesses]

I do not have a high opinion of 1.x or any gameplay contained therein.

I don't know how continuing to put playtime into a game they were in the process of mercy killing or responding to their development processes on the forums constitute a meaningful part of 'support,' but as stated I fully recognize that my opinion on this matter is not one that is shared by the developers.

I am not required to be respectful or realistic

Aaah.

Quibble, after quibble, after quibble from you-- and yet you refuse to display respect for others' views, refuse to be realistic, and still stubbornly maintain a sense of entitlement for obtaining Legacy achievements. Perhaps you're just baiting and trying to rile up the forum to increase your post count?

Allow me to bring you to reality and dispel any lingering disillusions you might still have before I officially ignore you...

[Varilyon]

Well, I only got one title from the achievement from 1.x ("Geölter Blitz") , because they were extremely hard to get.

I remember calculating the time it would take to get the leve-achievement. It was round about 10 years, if you played every one.
Leves took way more time than today.

My title comes from chocobo curier mission, which I farmed a lot to get these chocobo clothes.
Today its so easy to get them. Just like Colosseum clothes, crystal weapons and af1. I remember wiping through the dungeons only to get that one piece

[Aurida]

Allow me bring you to reality and dispel any lingering disillusions you might still have before I officially ignore you...

Ah, there's the smug sense of superiority paired with the last parting shot. You may revel in your ten year old achievements at your leisure, safe and secure in the knowledge that I, a clearly inferior Gamer, will never get the achievement for mapping the west shroud

[technole]

It's par for the course. People always ask for things they didn't earn. Like Legacy titles and tattoos. Watch the next thread ask for legacy sub discount to come back.

They do drop some 1.x stuff in the game from time to time. Music scrolls, an earring a few years back. It's just what it is, there are many titles and mounts today that are very exclusive and cannot be earned again. Feast yearly championship titles is one example.

[Aurida]

It's just what it is, there are many titles and mounts today that are very exclusive and cannot be earned again.

But the thing here is that the things keeping them from being earned again vary from 'the content just isn't in the game any more' to 'nothing.' I don't imagine anyone actually expects to have all of the 1.x content titles dropped into their mailbox one day with no fanfare, but having the ability to do something of equal investment to be able to still earn them now isn't an outrageous idea.

Kinda like why you ain't get, for example, <notorious monster hunter> for killing 25 different notorious monsters. I don't have the ability to go back ten years, but I do know I've killed every NM in Eureka at least once and the reward for that could have simply been that title instead of bupkis. There's nothing intrinsic to the title itself that makes it 'legacy.'

[Krotoan]

having the ability to do something of equal investment to be able to still earn them now isn't an outrageous idea.
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The idea that you can do something similar in value to reap the same rewards isn't preposterous. .. however you will likely never get the opportunity to blindly support a failing game without the promise of a "new" game again within FFXIV.

You have missed your opportunity and the conditions are extremely unlikely to be duplicated.

Even further the choice to do this with NO PROMISE OF ANY REWARDS... is gone, since you would be expecting rewards, the whole "thank you" part is moot.

[Aurida]

The idea that you can do something similar in value to reap the same rewards isn't preposterous. .. however you will likely never get the opportunity to blindly support a failing game without the promise of a "new" game again within FFXIV.

Alright. Fantastic. You will of course note that I'm specifically not advocating for things that are part of the 'legacy' iconography. I do not want the tattoo. I would especially never be so brazen to ask for the reduced subscription fee. Does the knowledge that the game was dying at the time alter, in any way, the difficulty of an achievement where you do 20 levequests?

[Krotoan]

Alright. Fantastic. You will of course note that I'm specifically not advocating for things that are part of the 'legacy' iconography. I do not want the tattoo. I would especially never be so brazen to ask for the reduced subscription fee. Does the knowledge that the game was dying at the time alter, in any way, the difficulty of an achievement where you do 20 levequests?

Yes, because achieving it while the game was dying with no knowledge of the miraculous recovery meant you persisted even though you likely were about to lose it when the game died. There was no guarantee any of your efforts would have lasting rewards other than the knowledge you did them. Considering the overhanging doom there, I don't think you just doing 20 (1.0) levequests again, knowing you'll get to keep the title and knowing the game is spectacularly successful is the same thing.

[Vyrerus]

I do not realistically expect anything meaningful related to this to change, nor do I respect being told that it is an objectively wrong viewpoint to have

If you don't have to be respectful, then why should anyone care about what you respect?

You objectively have a wrong viewpoint. The sinking ship was going down, and the players stayed on it, bailing out water just as hard as they could. The ship still sails today, because of that. I notice you are on the ship now. Why do you expect to be honored in the same way, when you can in no way replicate what 1.0 players did?

Because that's what the legacy items and titles are, really. They're an honor to those players that helped keep the game afloat. It's true that all achievements then and now are busy work of sorts, trivial as you put it, but 1.0's are an honor status because they symbolize love for the game from its start. You've gone as far as saying that you look down on 1.0, so why would you even desire something that symbolizes love for it?

Get over yourself.

[swiss_Momo]

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