My memories of 1.0 are as follows (on release day) :

- Fighting a Jelly-fish on a boat and being like "WTF UI/controls for the loss"
- Talking to the bartender dude, and then having absolutely no idea what to do next.
- Wandering around aimlessly until I finally reached La Noscea (crap that was a long bridge).
- Trying, for the life of me, to claim a mob. ANY mob. A squirrel, a beetle, a rat, ANYTHING! What a mess!
- FINALLY seeing an available mob, aggro it ASAP!!!!!
- "The Dodo hits you for 150 points of damage"
- "You have died."
- ????????
- FFXIV:ARR

That is my story.