FFXIV: Last Footage From 1.0 

Thank You!

It was a very emotional moment for me for sure after I disconnected for the final time.

​@@velvetfair21massive respect to (ffxiv legacy players)yous all for sticking with the game to the very end even some seeing the hidden beauty within legacy 14 and giving the developers to keep a little hope for the game to encourage them to keep trying at least once more and giving way for one of the best mmos of the early decades 😊❤

@@velvetfair21 I remember it fondly, I kinda miss some of the ui stuff and a lot of the people i played with, but arr was for the better.

I loved FFXI. And I played FFXIV beta. But when this was released, they literally fixed nothing from beta. It wasn't until I saw the documentary that confirmed exactly that. I could only take a month of the boringness of the grind. Got to about 22 PUG and quit after a month or so. You literally could only do about 6 levequests a day for decent XP and then had to grind the rest. The levequests took you into caverns that were just copy pasted stuff. The lag between menus was horrific. To heal someone, you had to have a weapon out (meaning you were attacking a monster) and then still be facing who you wanted to heal, if I remember correctly. I just couldn't handle it anymore. But looking back now after playing from ARR and on, I wish I could go back and experience what I didn't get to. How Yoshi P and the writers took from the lore and forged a new story from it is simply amazing. I never realized how much was in the game. From original 1.0, it felt like you got a few MSQ up to 15 and that was it. I ran to Ishgard gates for some pictures just before I quit because I thought I might be able to get in, similar to Jeuno being a hub. I didn't realize that there were so many other cool zones that we know of today that were open to be explored during that time.

I remember my friend playing the final RAID from 1.0 It was nuts. I'd love to see more footage of the old 1.0 days. I was going to buy in, but after things went south I decided to wait.

As laggy as it was, especially with being kicked out several times due to the massive amount of people trying to get back in and crashing in one specific area where the main event was happening...naw..it was just horrible, lol. It was worth it though staying til the end.

Spoilers: Yes, super sad even today when you watch that first trailer. He was a badass, then we got the twins, ofc we were sad. Coils is still one of the best places for story in my opinion. It was cool to see Cid again, i remember wondering if he died. When Papalymo died that made me really sad too because he was a big part of what i remember in 1.0, if i remember correctly he was in the first cutscene with Yda. I started in Gridania, not sure if everyone saw the same. Mother Miounne was also involved a lot when i started, she was like a guide, i might be wrong with this last bit but i'm sure she used to look younger in 1.0.

Nah, I think most people went back to 11 like a month or 2 after 1.0 was launched if memory serves. It was bad lol

People weren't brothered too much. Since a lot of us started at FF11 at launch as well and saw many MMOs come and go. When FF14 came out, people would run there FF11 for a couple hrs. then FF14. When FF14 was closed. People just went back to FF11 and some moved on because they were over FF11. when FF14ARR released I played it for a few months then didn't play it for 10 years before coming back. If you look at the credits in ARR, everyone who who there at the start had their names placed on the credits. My name is there under YunaA.

the music was great too, i loved the battle music. the city music was great too but they got repetitive fast. The sound/music was great then but its also good now, but the cutscene cinematics were better, was way more animation involved in the story telling.

I probably didn't see that after the servers shut down but a video did drop on the official channel.

The cutscene was only posted to the FFXIV Official Channels AFTER the servers went down. The video you're referencing has been cleverly edited to make it seem like the cutscene played as the servers went offline, but in reality, that didn't actually happen. 1.0's servers were famously unstable and were barely able to handle the sheer number of people online at the time the servers went down. There would have been no way for them to stream a CG cutscene to all the online players simultaneously like that.

We had to create new characters but we did get the Legacy tattoo and had our names in the credits of A Realm Reborn.

No, this is how it was for me since I didn't have the best computer back then. With all those players and mobs around, it was very chaotic.

@@velvetfair21 Ahaha, I bet. Thanks for the context. I wouldn't even blame your computer. At that time, most people seemed to have shared a similar experience in terms of the game's performance. It looks quite pretty, though, that much I must admit.

The servers went down on November 11th, 2022 then 9 months later 2.0 was officially released.

i get what you mean. events like spawning enemies into safe points is such a cool concept.

yep right on limsa aetherite, i want to see it.

Xiv is great and all but it seems like after 1.0 they really ditched any concept of RPG within their MMO. I'm a very new player but I went back and played XI and wished XIV had more of the player choice and open ended gameplay that XI had. People like to call XIV an RPGMMO but I really can't agree with that when all you're really able to do is superficial role-playing by pretending and purely going through a story with no actual choices as to what you're character is.

@@tony8076 i played 1.0 and no there was no concept of rpg where your choices mattered in that either.

I would be nice if something like this happened - like the zombie event in WoW before Wrath.

Cutscene in final fantasy for short

1.0 is open world,realy?

@@Bonwikk yeah you could go from gridania to central shroud without loading screen. Just through long bridge.

They could make an FF14 “classic” but they would need to fix a lot of 1.0’s many issues.

@@rostbern if they do that in 7.0 it would be amazing, WoW is much older and there are few places that are "closed" whole world is open, it would be also cool if we won't hit ceiling while flying, though in SHB and EW zones it's much better, but in these ARR it feels like the cage.

The game back then ran on an entirely different engine. It had (iirc) way better lighting than current FFXIV (but with Dawntrail's release we'll get better lighting, ayyyy). The old engine also allowed a ton of animations to be done with motion capture. Look at 1.0 cutscenes and you will see that the animations looked way better than current FFXIV. However, the engine apparently was terrible for an MMORPG, making fights very clunky and PCs back then were struggling a ton with the game's lack of optimization. So yeah, it looked pretty but it played like ass.

i played 1.0, one reason is the high polygon count, way more detail in the streets too, also the maps didn't have as much loading screens. Uldah was one giant city for example, not split up like it is today.