Back in my day....
The game was barely even playable due to a laggy/poorly designed interface.
The world may have been seamless and the graphics technically sharper but the world was a lifeless copy/paste mess.
One of the most moronic things I've ever seen in an MMO, the fatigue system, prevented you from working on leveling the class you wanted to level.
There was literally no content to speak of and leveling consisted of a couple levequests here and there and killing crabs for hours. Endgame? What's endgame?
There were some tracks I wish were still in the game today (old Limsa theme and "Twilight Over Thanalan"). The music and graphics were probably the only ups about the game.

Thank you Yoshi-P for bringing a "New Day" to Eorzea, it's come such a long way and it's not perfect but it's miles better than what we had "back in my day".