Quote Originally Posted by Morphiana View Post
Tell me you never played 1.0 without telling me you never played 1.0 - The post.

1.0 had no real story, sound track was okay, the jobs sucked hard, combat took the worst things from FFXI and WoW, travel was terrible, end game did not exist, good luck buying anything in the player NPC retainer market, hell good luck using the atrocious UI, and that's if you could get the game running well / stable.

That's just some of the issues with 1.0. Not even remotely close to all of them. It was arguably a worse release than Cyberpunk's original release.

Also, to the guy who said "better graphics", sure at the cost of the game running at all in a stable way. That was 1.0's worst aspect. Go back and watch any old review. The barrels had more to them than the player models did. It was a mess.

No one will take you seriously with feedback like this. It is exaggerated in the worst way possible, offers nothing productive to work off of in order to discern what you actually are upset with, and the things you're saying are "worse than 1.0" such as raids did not exist at all in 1.0. The first dungeon did not even exist at all until 1.18, about 11 months after release.
the quality of texture rendering was much better in version 1.0. it wasn't the graphics that made FFXIV 1.0 unstable, but rather the calamitous coding, scripting overloads and poor asset optimization that overloaded servers and processors, causing high latency and slowing down in-game actions.
even with the DT upgrade, the textures are still disgusting, especially in cut scenes.

Indeed, it wasn't until 1.19 that we had anything substantial to say about the game: dungeons, bosses and quests.
dungeons,boss in 1.0 offered a challenge, for example, a bad pull could lead to catastrophe.
the level of difficulty was comparable to today's extremes.
with each successive extension, it's been simplification upon simplification, impoverished storytelling, etc....

I still say that DT is going to be the gravedigger of FFXIV, the coup de grace.