FINAL FANTASY XIV: THE FINAL 11 MINUTES *End Of Eorzea*

[@GameNChick]

Have some spare time? possibly two hours? Welp. I have taken the time to review every single expansion from Legacy 1.0 and all the way up to Endwalker. If you're interested in what a legacy player has to say, who's been here since day one of 1.0's launch, all the way up to current patches, then please take the time to check out my review of the series called Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reviewed in this two hour breakdown of what I thought and some history thrown in WATCH THE FULL REVIEW: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmWwnWmamtWepNE For those who do not wish to sit and watch one video. On the front page of my channel, i have the entire series up individually as well for convenience sake

[@eiboeck88]

your offer seems intreaging for a noob

[@Syltia51]

thx for sharing this :)

[@captaincaveman177]

alright.. sure i will take you up on that

[@GameNChick]

@@captaincaveman177

[@ProlificPianist]

So the final moments in the game are of players staring at the moon and waiting for the end. Then Bahamut breaks his way out of the moon prison and destroys Eorzea and most everyone in it. Finally after the end of the cutscene, Square Enix pulls the plug and kills the servers. That's a fucking wicked way to end a game.

[@WeissSchneezus]

And then they incorporated it into 2.0 ARR

[@gappy6964]

True genius

[@saga4298]

Best team dev ever

[@liamnissanS2K]

@@saga4298 Wouldn't that title go to FFXI devs?

[@Kekira]

@@liamnissanS2K In this case no because Yoshi-P was behind this

[@JohnYoo39]

"Why are we standing out here in the open?" "Nowhere else to run. We're all dead." Damn

[@Noki_Kelevra]

That interaction almost made me tear up. Like, I get it's just the gallows' humor of a bunch of players waiting for their game to be shut down, but the interaction is so... heartfelt, so sincere, so emotional. It really feels like a couple of friends hanging out, having a beer while the world ends.

[@Flightkeeper0229]

@@Noki_Kelevra That's just how it was back then. It was just a scary time. Where we had no way of knowing what was next.

[@legomaniac213]

@@Noki_Kelevra "Life's a piece of shit, when you look at it Life's a laugh and death's a joke, its true. You'll see its all a show, keep 'em laughing as you go Just remember that the last laugh is on you!"

[@hereniho]

​@@Noki_Kelevra If the world were to end, this is probably the calmest way it could go for anybody.

[@Kitkat5335]

I mean, anyone who was there knew that was possibly one of the safest places to be all things considering. When you come across the overgrown Goobue in Thanlan, there is a reason for it. Leading up to the shut down we were told that the darkness would unleash beast of darkness at the city gates, and it did. When all else failed there was monsters that spawned in the very cities themselves to the point that was one of the safer areas to just stand and chat. Everywhere else the outer gate zones of cities was a literal battlefront with waves every so often.

[@kaliskonig]

I love how square made the shut down part of the story lol

[@ariezon]

love not to cut out immersion

[@DiegoCanizo]

kaliskonig If only they had kept doing such amazing games like FFXIV and not BS games like FFXV.

[@Shadowfynx]

It was brilliant.

[@Hakakuno]

Diego Canizo FFXV is great up until the part with the time skip. I think FFXVI should definitely borrow some aspects from XV to keep the series fresh. Especially the general modern aesthetic and the way magic works, where it’s more tactical because it’s dangerous and can harm you and your allies.

[@barrybanter8419]

Diego Canizo ffxv was actually not that bad despite flaws ik your opinion and frustration but it’s so much bs as it is just lost potential and promises

[@Ricewarrior01]

That ad at the end made me laugh. I mean imagine you're on your deathbed, you say your goodbyes and you take in your surroundings savoring your last moments on this earth. Everything slowly fades to black and you think "So this is it... It's finally happening." Then after a couple of seconds in the dark, you suddenly get hit with a advertisement for Earth 2.0 coming soon to the Playstation 15 and PC.

[@goldenarrow7134]

i don't know why this made me laughs o much haha

[@writershard5065]

And then Earth 2.0 is actually an upgrade. That would be kinda sweet tbh.

[@soon7221]

Can't wait for Earth 2.0, where's a big ass dragon when you need one?

[@FaiAstriel]

@@soon7221 Sealed inside the Moon, he gotta Escape from there somehow

[@haleyfetsch1021]

This is too meta for me to handle

[@jmrwacko]

It's nuts how much Square Enix cared about rebooting this game. They spent possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars on a one-time CGI cutscene to shut the servers down.

[@dormantlime215]

Yes and no. It's also the opening for A Realm Reborn, and they almost definitely knew that it would be. So it had to be a good send off, but it also had to be strong enough to start their reboot.

[@Kairos_Akuma]

Well not exactly, since its the same cutscene you see was a New Player in ARR.

[@GrandMagicOfRegnum]

Itharius 6 years later were still talking about it , people still mention it , worth more the money that is

[@conniescurse7325]

It was also the launch trailer for ARR, but they added a second part to it later.

[@Chris-iv8sb]

I wouldn't call that one-time, i see people watching this and other videos of it on a daily basis. 7 years later. It has possibly tens of millions of views alltogether.

[@GameNChick]

5 years later and this still gives me chills coming back and reliving the moment of that night

[@itsShibuya]

As an ARR player and a fan of NoClip, I'm getting the chills too. Good on you for recording this!

[@bobfox4437]

Can I ask what that was like? If you were on chat with people, what were they saying afterwards? I can only imagine how.... eerie it all must have been afterwards, and even during those last minutes. Thanks for putting this up. Enjoy Stormblood!

[@Torbarian]

The NoClip documentary has allot of people looking into 1.0 now

[@GameNChick]

Noclips documentary was awesome! and glad I did record this!

[@GameNChick]

Which is good. Knowing the games history can make u appreciate it more

[@CecilyJisi]

"We're not just gonna kill it with fire! We're gonna kill it with the most amazing fire in the history of fire!" -Square Enix

[@OneSecretPerson]

Here from Josh's video I presume.

[@CecilyJisi]

Yup. But no shame. This scene is GLORIOUS!!

[@CecilyJisi]

***** Yup!

[@SpartanPrimeDSTY117]

yep, came here because of joshschorcher too

[@itsacharcoalice]

***** Classic Final Fantasy. Drop the moon? LOLNO surprise! There was a dragon it it the whole time!

[@kyriepls]

"I'll see you in the next world guys" I didn't plan on crying today

[@Probably_Gonna_Die]

Bruh I swear this broke me...

[@gtrzmbe9390]

I never played, never even knew this is how they ushered in Realm Reborn. Still somehow tugged on my heart strings.

[@alien_marksman]

I was there nearly 8 years ago, on the Cornelia server. The weeks and days leading up to the server shut down will forever be ingrained in my memory. Random monster hordes attacking the cities, Players rushing to defend, "The Great Goobbue Wall", and finally accepting the inevitable and just sitting on the edge of the map outside of Ul'dah enjoying the view in silent meditation.... To suddenly get hit with that cinematic as the server went blank. WOW! It is/was a very unique time and place in gaming history. I'm glad to have witnessed it first hand, and honoured to have been a part of it if even only in the littlest way. Would I ever go back if there ever was a "Classic" server.. No, I believe what happened during the span of 1.0 through to 1.23b should stay in our collective memories. With videos like this serving as a Time Capsule for all.

[@blackandwhiteduo4971]

How'd you feel after the cinematic finished though?

[@jackadams3878]

i wouldn't mind if they worked 1.0 into new game+.

[@joseantoniofierrorobles6088]

Congrats on really being a part of Gaming History.

[@arceus227100]

@@jackadams3878 you can play 1.0 via some stuff like setting up a server on your computer yourself, but i doubt they would legitimately ever make 1.0 into newgame plus, the map, story, sights, everytime was different, ishgard wasnt snowy, gridania had all 4 (north, east, south and west) and mor dhona would be absolutely different

[@Ethera55]

OH wow i didn't know about monster attacking citites too during this 😮

[@Shiirow]

Blizzard : We will destroy the world and remake it, and call it "Cataclysm"... no one could ever top that. Square-Enix : Hold my beer...

[@kou7191]

They could actually do that to update their engine. That calculator wont work forever.

[@EdgarAllanPogo]

Blizzard can't seem to stop fucking up and ruining everything they create. I don't play FF but as a KH fan, I can agree that Square Enix will do everything to help keep the fans. WoW is what could have happened to FF if the devs gave nothing of a fuck about the players and just cared about the money. Hats of to you, Sqaure. Keep the integrity.

[@Xbob42]

The only difference is 1.0 was worth destroying.

[@Warhamer116]

Wow: *destroy the wolrd* ->Splits a single zone -> Pisses a lake on other SE: *Destroy the world* -> server is killed in fire, everything is destroyed and deleted, a new game starts.

[@prideofasia99]

Bahamut did significantly more than Deathwing did

[@Khelevandros]

I've never played this game, I know nothing about these characters, but that mage made me tear up at the end. That sad, fatalistic, accepting smirk.

[@DarkenMidnacrystal]

Not sure if you play it now or know the story (as it has been 3 years) but he basically killed Bahamut's mortal form, but in so doing became super weak and the spirit of Bahamut is as strong as the mortal form, so he made the mage his thrall to revive Bahamut's mortal form

[@BatLB]

He was a great man and won't be forgotten. His family lives on.

[@mkw3980]

Louisoix! He is one of the few characters you see here who didn't survive the meteor. He is like a mythical legend in the reboot. Pretty cool stuff.

[@AccipiterSmith]

Louisoix was his name.

[@1LuvMLPFiM]

Granddaddy Louisoix

[@AtariDad]

Error Code: 1015 Servers down due to Bahamut fucking shit up.

[@haziqtheunique]

Four hundred & four likes on this is just... _perfect._

[@Spades20XX]

Wait, so when 1.0 shutdown, this played? That's cool as hell.

[@FootballPro97]

Yep, pretty damn cool!

[@firesonicz]

TaijutsuJoshua It was the realest shit ever

[@aneonfoxtribute]

TaijutsuJoshua Holy shit, not one, but TWO Chinese Electric Batman's?!

[@firesonicz]

Damn straight!

[@kirara2516]

TaijutsuJoshua Square knows how to give its games an exit.

[@GameNChick]

8 years... damn where has time gone

[@dennisfxd]

PwerlvlAmy in FF14, I hope. XD

[@Master_Aqua]

I’m a shadowbringers player. Picked up the game last month and I’m a good chunk deep in stormblood, I had no idea about the history of this game and when i found out I couldnt fathom what it felt like to be there until I saw this. Thank you for uploading this. I am extremely curious, do your friends in the video still play? Do you still play? It’s been nearly a decade one cant help but wonder what happened to all of them you know?

[@TomReforged]

Are you playing still? If so what server you be on???? :3

[@glori0usoce]

I remember what it was like on the JP Server, which also hosted the ANZ region. IIRC, it was the only time ever where people actually used the shout command.

[@SevenGC89]

I just started playing FFXIV a couple months ago and its crazy how much different it looked back then.

[@MalaRhynn]

Bahamet was the true savior of the world! He came and fixed Final Fantasy! WHAT A HERO!

[@Savagewolver]

MalaRhynn Well, you know what they say. For something new to he created, the old must be destroyed.

[@GothKiitsune]

MalaRhynn this is why summoners can summon him?

[@Mr-Moron]

Wait, that was Bahamet?! Geeze. I’ll never look at when I summon him in Smash 4 ever again.

[@sylvierose2799]

Ironic that is pretty much the lore of Bahamut from Granblue Fantasy

[@BatLB]

@@Mr-Moron It was Bahamut, a primae summoned with ether by those who seem him as their god. He was just the gun that caused the damage in the 7. catastrophy, it was the people who used it.

[@DodderingOldMan]

It's a pity this was the result of the game sucking so much, because in some ways this is truly eerie and quite beautiful. The sense of impending doom is tangible and made all the stronger by the fact that, in a very real sense, this was the end of the world (of Warcr... I mean, FFXIV). Also, The End of an Era cinematic is still, in my opinion, the greatest piece of CGI ever created. To see it there, in its appropriate context, would have been breathtaking.

[@Colgruv]

Solidly the best PR move I've seen in gaming history. I'm also quite disappointed I wasn't there to experience it.

[@MrPainlayer69]

Dan Wild same here man

[@MochaTea94406]

Omg I know right?

[@MochaTea94406]

I would of cried. If I played the game and this happened, I would of cried.

[@rockafobia]

Buffoon1980 wish i was there 2 man

[@OddlyIncredible]

This is without a doubt one of the most epic shutdowns in MMO history, even though it led to a re-release. (And FFXIV:ARR turned out to be one of the best triple-A MMOs in history.) Playing a ghostly, distorted version of "Answers" as zone BGM was just _inspired_, and playing the ARR intro/1.0 outtro cinematic was the perfect bridge from the first version to the second.

[@razzyrazberries]

Totally agree!

[@coldReactive]

The "Ghostly" Version of Answers appears again in FFXIV:ARR I believe for Coil Savage Mode.

[@Axaelyn]

Can we find that version of "Answers" on YT? I like it so much T_T

[@MochaTea94406]

Ian Carlson AF what point? What happens? Please tell me!!

[@coldReactive]

Booker1912 I don't know. The track was added way, way before the whole "Anniversary" Seasonal Event was even added in the game.

[@abavendarlocke5455]

Wow, I had no idea that the opening video to ARR was literally the end of 1.0. Holy crap! That makes it a bit more chilling and sad.

[@faux3401]

So thats is Louisoix, I see why he is so revered. I've only been playing for a few months now but this brought a tear to my eye.

[@kurosakikun96]

Out of curiosity, have you played the Coils of Bahamut raids? They add to his story in a big way, dude was a freaking badass

[@jeremyzak654]

@@kurosakikun96 Tried to but the wait time for this raid is insanely long. It's like nobody wants to play this raid.

[@kurosakikun96]

@@jeremyzak654 accurate, the basic party roulette thing is hell, though most of it can be soloed by the end of Stormblood, and I know people will jump in in the Party Finder if you list first time clearances are available, because people love them extra tomestones (that's how I got through from Second Coil Turn 4 onwards)

[@metallicshah]

This is the same cutscene shown in the start of reboot (ARR). If u skipped cutscenes I doubt you will understand anything in the game.

[@Stedfastwolf]

@@jeremyzak654 Nows a great to do it with endwalker coming soon. Just list it in party finder for unsync first time clear if you havent done it yet

[@harrylane4]

This is the perfect way to keep an MMO evergreen IMO. When your engine just can't handle itself anymore, create a huge event that everybody HAS to see (getting the playerbase back) and use that as an opportunity to create what is essentially a sequel (new engine, new mechanics, new everything) set in the same world. Provided you give them something worth playing, they'll fuckin' love it.

[@imptwins]

[sweats in Endwalker]

[@Shuma_tsu]

Fortnite devs definitely saw this comment before rolling out UE5 upgrade

[@amitamaru]

Not many games have the nerve or the skill to pull that off. The lingering dread as you're forced to watch as the world around you is inevitably lost.

[@trinityblood5759]

This is why Final Fantasy will never die. This is why Square Enix will always be around. A game that was complete crap and received horrible ratings churned out an EndGame so amazing it pulled at the very strings of your soul. Rather than saying "tough luck" like so many other game devs do, Square Enix made FFXIV go out with a bang...and a pretty damn big one too. To add to that, they released FFXIV- A Realm Reborn to fix their mistake and gave us players what we really wanted. Also..that music...my god that music is amazing..fits the EndGame scenario perfectly.

[@wingrider3323]

Trinity Blood Well after the FFXV fiasco(i dont know how this is spelled) hype died down about new final fantasy entries I think.

[@otakoedits]

It's a shame that they aren't like that anymore.

[@oromain]

I honestly loved XV and thought it was great. It's just not what folks wanted.

[@Azraelson]

Nomura: Hold my beer....

[@yourunclejohn]

@@otakoedits it's a shame that your so stupid

[@pardn]

The song echoing in the background makes it much more eerie...

[@kirara2516]

pardn but even more awesome.

[@Optimusprime240]

+pardn Do you know what it's called?

[@bahumut01]

Modern Spartan answers

[@Kairos_Akuma]

yes and how it gets stronger and stonrger when the Timer runs down.

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi]

@@bahumut01 *answers reprise. Answers is the normal version

[@Krescentwolf]

"In one fleeting moment... thou must live, die, and know..." This was, and still is, one of the best 'endings' to a Final Fantasy game to date. Imo anyway.

[@GrahamChapman]

And what a payoff. Like, on that song alone. People speculating for 10 years what the significance of Answers was. "It's the theme of the old servers shutting down and _'A Realm Reborn'_ beginning." "It's the lament of the Allagans." "Guys! Guys! It's the Ascians' backstory! Emet practically says it outright!" "...mommy... ;__;"

[@cruciblejr4770]

Its kinda sad when you really think about it..regardless if its a video game, its still a living, breathing virtual world...and we just witnessed its end.

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

...And subsequently, its rebirth.

[@Alien361]

No... we did witness its rebirth.

[@NoLettuce]

Crucible Jr it was remade and it’s currently top mmo :)

[@Joe-oc9rq]

The original was supposed to be terrible, can't say I feel that sad.

[@kasuscloud4805]

Omnium Rerum Finem.... All things have an expiration date. But from that world's end came a new world. Is that new world not as beautiful as the one which came before it?

[@marajango]

Susan Calloway singing, Orchestra playing, Bahamut burning the world to ashes. That's how you end an MMO with style.

[@chiknbasket]

We did it, Louisoix... your sacrifice here did more than you could've ever hoped for.

[@armistice9670]

When this happened my dad was playing and called me over to watch the final moments of the original FF14...literally one of the best, of not the best way a company has ever shut down a MMO's server and reset everything...you do need to commend SE for this and I'm so glad that I was here when this happened technically

[@GameNChick]

12 years since the world was born anew. Time flies.

[@TonyRedgrave]

My friends are all playing Cyberpunk 2077, and here I am crying over a fictional apocalypse that happened 8 years ago. C'est la vie.

[@kerrygamer9359]

Cyberpunk is worst

[@kuyt20]

@@kerrygamer9359 - Hey, some people like watching T-posing NPCs for days on end, man. LOL

[@AcroxShadow]

Now that, is a way to end a game. Classy Squeenix, well done.

[@ftvideosandclips]

It was around this time that Square proved they should not be called 'Squeenix' and the people calling them such turned into the minority.

[@deathsia250]

Watching this ending makes me truly appreciate FFXIV:ARR storyline. I think what the twelve did was the most they could do, after Bahamut repelled their ace in the hole, they used all their power to protect the people of Eorzea which is why the main cast of ARR still lives. It also ties well into the Acasins in the current 2.0 storyline. I have a feeling those guys are the real villains behind Bahamut and Meteor in 1.0

[@Kaiyalai_Indigo]

The trouble is that Louiseaux held back when he summoned the 12, summoning their power but not the twelve themselves. Had he gone all-out, the world would have suffered more for the loss of aether, but they may have been able to hold Bahamut where their power - without their will - could not.

[@SomniaCE]

So did the world literally end then? Does ARR take place in some alternate universe then? I havent played XIV and Im currently downloading ARR right now, but Im truly curious as to what happened at the end here. Did that old man teleport the heroes somewhere else to save them from the end of the world, or did the world not end?

[@SomniaCE]

J. Hanna Ahh, thanks, that actually makes a lot of sense!

[@Sinalve1]

You're right, but there is a spoiler involved if you want to know the whole truth. If you want to find the answer for yourself... all I can say is to look up.

[@WillM38]

i know your comment is 2 years old now but for the sake of effect: You may be surprised how right you are.

[@ilitsa]

Remembering this day, standing with friends I'd made as it all came to a close, not knowing if we'd meet up again. This still makes me emotional.

[@venahtmusic]

I really wish I was into this game back then to have experienced the final days of this game. Lately, meta game narratives have been all the rage with the way Undertale takes its turn towards the end, or how Oneshot is a game that was originally intended to only be played once, but I haven't quite seen such a powerful demonstration of a singular experience for players. From what I've read, when Final Fantasy 14 was kind of a garbage game and everyone was upset with it, Square Enix promised they would fix it. Once they had a working version of the game and they were ready to make that transition, they began working it into the story of the original game. Now these players who were upset with the quality of a broken game were now clinging to it, knowing that the world they were living in was going to be destroyed by this falling moon. Relationships between players grew closer, the community became more involved in this world knowing that time was limited, game masters were doing fun things like spawning monster invasions inside of player cities so that the players would band together and fight. Then, in its final moments, everyone bands together and just stares up at the sky, saying their goodbyes to one another, as a final cut scene plays that was only intended to be seen the one time by the people who stuck with the game until its literal end. Its truly fascinating. Gaming is about a lot of things, but this is a fine example of what builds a community and how a game can make someone feel like they belong in a world they don't want to let go of.

[@durantes]

Scary when you realize that while all this is happening, a shard world is being completely reduced to dust FFxiv is pretty dark when you step back n take a look

[@TonyRedgrave]

Yeah, I'm kinda surprised that doesn't get mentioned more. As devastating and beautiful as the Calamity was, I can't help but wonder what it was like on the world that truly did end.

[@bigfoxki]

@@TonyRedgrave Worlds, we had 6 calamities before this one.

[@CErra310]

The first dungeon you visit in the game is a human traficking ring's rape den "Pretty dark" is an understatement

[@guts-141]

@@CErra310 wait what!?

[@numberc8420]

@@guts-141 it was a pirate hideout and they locked up prisoners. You had to take a detour to see them.

[@GameNChick]

Wow! we made it to 1 million views! The End Of Eorzea lives on!

[@lantisthefirst4554]

Honestly just waiting for Asmond to watch the FF14 Docuseries and the ending

[@ronzology]

hell yes!

[@brianhathaway998]

I think 30% of those views are mine, lol. Just a fellow meteor survivor chasing ancient feelings..... thanks for the nostalgia.

[@GameNChick]

@@lantisthefirst4554 hopefully he does now that he started playing it!

[@FlipMcPole]

I appreciate you for recording it. So epic.

[@nalrashido]

"No more shall man have wings to bear him to Paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk."

[@brohogany9920]

I like how there's one last glimmer of hope to contain the dragon but then it breaks through regardless

[@rivenoak]

technically....not :) the longer vid Flames of Truth tells additional >2 mins and how badass the old man was in the end. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6mygHl5odmNq8U

[@GhalanSmokeScale]

Even if Bahamut would've been contained here, the spell is barely a stopgap measure. It would've bought a little time, a few weeks, a month or two, if that. But eventually, Bahamut would've broken out and redoubdled his efforts to destroy everything.

[@smileplease_91]

Louisouix smiling in the end gets me every time.

[@grkfunn5821]

Wish I met the guy

[@craigwheeler4760]

That smile says "weeeeeellllll we're FUKED, but at least I got the heroes to safety!"

[@LDrosophila]

me too 😢❤

[@douwannafightaboutit]

Holy shit! I'm Era Mintario! Didn't even know this video exists i love this!

[@bombastico16]

Liar

[@SaigaTenshi]

A toast to one of the brave hero who fought valiantly for Eorzea

[@zhan6355]

Hopefully it was every bit as memorable as it seems, it's amazing what the journey has been from then to now

[@vyrnius]

rly now?

[@dq7860]

4 years later you good?

[@NuclearCherries]

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you shut down a game. Take notes, WoW. You'll need them.

[@KamenRiderRaiden]

If they keep going the way they are, Blizzard wont have the chance

[@shivamwagh22]

They missed their chance with Shadowlands. Imagine how cool it would had been to be completely and utterly destroyed by and Old god and then after a time skip realising most of civilization was wiped out.

[@Makuru]

Well that'd mean WoW would come back tho, wouldn't want that.

[@DoomBringerDANTE]

That idea isn’t really anything original people said it about WOTLK, MOP, and legion.

[@thiccestboi5114]

This comment hits different right about now ngl

[@dorendelight]

Best disconnection ever!

[@GameNChick]

Everything will be comingto a head very soon. I will be doing a review very soon covering my time with 1.0, thoughts on the expansions and the conclusion to the ten year arc of Final Fantasy 14. Gonna be a long one, but fun

[@Savrollo]

Never played FFXIV nor know any lore of it... but seeing with his last breath and ounce of soul, that old elf saved his party instead of himself right before the end of the world made me shed a tear. It hit me.

[@daveasher2687]

I love rewatching this cinematic, but I always keep coming back to this video, because I feel like the ingame version doesn't have the audio quite right with the effects sounding a little more dulled and not fully carrying over the destructive force that you feel at the end of your hairs like in here.

[@TheSyncshadow]

Thats one way to put a bullet in the head of a game....make it the most beautiful and epic bullet ever created.......this totally beats how Matrix online ended...

[@VisionoftheChief]

The Syncshadow Matrix Online?

[@kalvinis9485]

@@VisionoftheChief Yes. There was a "Matrix Online" game in...I wanna say alpha or beta, but not near a condition to be shipped out to stores. Essentially, the game ended service with all of the player's avatars being crunched up into a ball. I think there's a video of that event somewhere on KZbin or other sites.

[@Nephibis]

I wanted to play it so bad, but I was too young to get a job to pay for a subscription before they shut it down. Sucks no one took into account what was wrong with it and tried again later. The concept itself would have made a fun mmo.

[@kenstorm707]

@@VisionoftheChief The Matrix had a video game. Needless to say... it didn't last long.

[@KamenRiderRaiden]

@@VisionoftheChief A short lived MMO based in The Matrix

[@MrKanooe]

Well...A Game over, litteraly.

[@Aeroxima]

I want to upvote this more

[@LastFireAce]

Game over for 1.0 but XIV still up running in 4.0

[@ozenky]

THE game over cutscene

[@NiminaeOld]

Best game over ever. Like, I'm not even mad.

[@aditadits5452]

XIV is still running in 5.0 everyone 😘

[@chasslez]

I think my favorite part about watching this for the first time coming off of finishing Stormblood is that once you've gotten a feel for how Final Fantasy's cutscenes work, you start kind of predicting how it's going to go. Yeah, we're losing, big scary dragon ruining everything, but oh look it's Louisoix! He's gonna sacrifice himself to save everybody! But he doesn't. This animatic is so well done that even though I'm sitting here ten years after ARR, I still forget that we lost this one until we do. You're waiting for that final big moment where the good guys come out on top, and it just.. doesn't happen. And then there's just the menu, and an error code. Haunting. I'm glad I didn't play 1.0. I don't know how I would've reacted if I had actual attachment to these events.

[@miakira5127]

I remember this day well. It was sad to say goodbye to the friends I made :( some of them didn’t return for A Realm Reborn I returned and the 3 friends who returned with me we keep playing to this day! We completed Endwalker Together ❤

[@cthulhuhoops]

That's so so special❤❤

[@AElias]

Did you know something was coming after before this happened? Or just the game was going to be gone forever.

[@DarkZero375]

I won't deny it...this video to this day brings a tear to my eye...seeing these players looking up at the inevitable doom approaching, nothing but watch in sadness as the world is about to be torn apart.

[@renokyrieliumgodofvoid8330]

DarkZero375 Yeah that was both epic and sad at the same time For a bad game it sure has the best shutdown

[@DisgaeMi]

@@renokyrieliumgodofvoid8330 A bad game that turn into a good game after Square fix their mistake

[@wyattbarnett3877]

Reno KyrieliumGodOfVoid MAJORAS MASK DID IT FIRST

[@OrganizationXIII]

Where is cloud Noctis and lighting to save the day?

[@MasterLink2]

They did ALL that, JUST to shut down the original FF14...DUDE! This is making me want to learn about FF14:ARR "history" now! :P

[@tarb1320]

I know this is way late but theres a 3 part documentary on the whole thing on you tube.

[@LWolf12]

Mhmm, I know old comment, but if you've not seen it. Check out the NoClip documentary. It's really good and goes into how they did all this.

[@displayname16]

NoClip made a great documentary about it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqSTqoSBfpyMrZY

[@nikidelvalle]

I get chills just watching this, having been there must've been such a unique experience.

[@ShaReMiura]

The thing I find interesting about this cutscene is you watch it and you see how much of what would become "current" FFXIV lore gets woven into it. You see literally watch Louisoix saving the ones we would eventually meet again - the ones we would know to become the Warriors of Darkness. And just seeing how different everyone looks from then to now. It's really interesting and so cool.

[@UltimateAmplify]

I never played the original FFXIV but to know that the warriors of darkness are based on the original warriors of light makes shadowbringers and stormblood hit different.

[@moonkeis]

I played 14 during open beta and when it first launched. The mess of a game being relaunch has been quite a journey. I didn’t have time to get back into an MMO until recently but it has been great to see all the work they’ve done since the relaunch.

[@Vythalax]

I never played version 1.0 but I do play version 2.0 on the Leviathan server. This was a beautiful way to let the first version die in my opinion. The ghostly distorted version of "Answers" that plays really sets the feeling of an end right until the cinematic starts and ends with the promise of a new beginning. Points to Square Enix for being able to turn it around with A Realm Reborn after all the awful things I heard about version 1. Although I still wish I'd been able to play the first one.

[@Kayamaniac]

Shame ARR alienated a lot of the FFXIV players. They ditched all of the unique aspects of the game, which is pretty upsetting. FFXIV is a game I'll always remember - and is most likely my final Final Fantasy :P

[@Vythalax]

Kayamaniac Which is why I regret never being able to play, when it was out I was sadly unable to play it. I hear a lot of people talk about the first version with a lot of fondness in their messages, but sadly I was unable to experience all the things. Still wished I'd been able to play it, even more after I started playing ARR.

[@DeusExIra]

Vythalax I know this is a LONG time ago, I just want to let you know there ARE 1.0 private servers.

[@HereticDuo]

What are you talking about? Even when your comment was made the sub count was skyrocketing, now it's climbing even faster with over 5 million confirmed active accounts, only a few ppl were "alienated" and those ppl don't matter because far more came in to not only maintain numbers but push them even higher

[@Kayamaniac]

"only a few ppl were "alienated" Uh, and how would you know? I lost my entire community, and it's the same story from other servers. Not a bad game, but it's not the game a lot of people knew they were buying when it first came out. You have a really shit attitude - the same attitude which is partly to blame for the terrible state of MMORPGs.

[@TwilightWolf2508]

I remember first hearing this game announced and desperately wanting it when it came out. I was too young to get it myself and I still wish I could have been there from the beginning. At least there are heroes like you posting 1.0 content so I can still experience it to some degree. I can't imagine how it must feel for day 1 legacy players to finish Endwalker.

[@UkraineJames2000]

"Ill see you in the next world guys.... :(" *Your eyes brim over with tears* _Uni Neko dances happily_

[@BoatSniper49]

You can hear 'Answers' being played in the background before the cutscene. Absolutely chilling.

[@zettaflareig]

then during it

[@IchiSumeragi]

Now that I've seen that... I would have killed just to be here on this moment.

[@vyrnius]

@Chloe is watching as far as I know they made the last quests really fun while working on ARR

[@JohnXina97]

The amount of convincing Yoshi P probably had to do.. Scraping the entire game, remaking it pretty much from scratch and a ridiculously amazing yet probably expensive one time cinematic. All resulting in probably the most epic way to end an MMO that we will ever see. But look at FF XIV now, it damn well payed off!

[@GameNChick]

After so many years, nearly 10 to be exact, since this day, there's been a lot to talk about. Currently recording a playthrough of Endwalker and will be doing an In Depth Review of Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker on my channel in January. I will be covering my history of 1.0, the good and bad of it, its fall, being a legacy player, the end of eorzea, its rise and my thoughts as a Legacy player being here since the beginning and all the way to the culmination of its story with Endwalker. It's going going to be a long one. Please look forward to it if you are wanting to hear all about it and follow me @gamenchick on twitter.

[@onuxtigris3392]

thank you for this video. I'm a 2.0 player who was recommended the game by a friend who was a 1.0 player. He quit back in 2.0 and I have 21 90s, only 9 jobs left to level that are all 80s. I could almost feel your dispair from the video as it reminded me of the slow death that I watched WoW experience over 7 expansions until i finally couldn't play it anymore.

[@ikandi3852]

You were there with my brother and cousin sadly my brother doesn’t play anymore and watching this made me tear up and really miss the gamer he used to be 😢

[@GameNChick]

@@ikandi3852 Oh wow that's crazy taht its your brother and cousin. Sad that he doesn't game all that much anymore or play the game anymore :(

[@MMRFlierMan]

Probably the coolest way to end and then begin, an MMO. Holy hell, they are so good at this.

[@ericedwards8234]

I never played 1.0, but I still periodically come back to this video, and I get chills every time I watch it. This is how you shut down an MMO. It kind of reminds me of the end of Planetside, when everything went to shit, but with ten times the emotion. When the day comes that WoW is shut down, I hope Blizzard sends it off with the same bang as Square-Enix.

[@vampyrusblack494]

I didn't play during 1.0 but seeing this as the ARR trailer and later learning this was how 1.0 went out starting the 7th Umbral Era then learning that Mother muionne and the other adventures guild registrars and the people of eorzea cant remember the people who defended them in the days leading up to the calamity is both heartbreaking and bittersweet

[@vrynnie]

how mazing is it that the players from 1.0 are honored and become legends called the warriors of light. that's got to feel awesome somehow.

[@KamenRiderRaiden]

One of them is a co worker of mine, actually

[@rivenoak]

the ARR credits hold a list of players. i did not count all the pages, but it contains probably the name of each and every player present at the end :)

[@ryanc5572]

I always cry so much when I watch this video. Maybe because I played 1.0, maybe because I saw the documentaries of this game picking itself up, and maybe because I've been such a fan of this game for so many years. It's truly come such a long way.

[@bean8383]

answers just echoing and playing in the background is so eerie and I'm sure people who witnessed this in real time appreciate endwalker even more

[@infinitas.]

It's been what? Almost seven years? I still get goosebumps even when just thinking of this. I'm really glad they included it in ARR as a watchable cutscene. Truly the end of an era. Also, Answers was just perfect for this. My favorite song of al times.

[@jeniko2841]

That ending movie was really sad :(

[@deavaprimus]

ikr

[@ChaoticTeen16]

Well... you DID witness the Armageddon

[@AuroraLaurialis]

Experiencing the whole calamity was sad. As the moon got closer to the planet bosses and monsters that weren't supposed to be able to spawn in sanctuaries slowly started to, starting at small outer towns until they spawned all over the main three cities. You'd log on some times and there would be a level 90 boss monster there and it'd just kill you. Imagine being an NPC during those times.. This was the end of the world and every player that played during this time knew and felt the impending doom. It was scary but at the same time amazing.

[@valenten89]

Sorry for the necro but the ending movie has a more completed version floating around called Flames of Truth! It really has a good ending for the cinematic (despite how cataclysmic the cinematic is) if you havent checked it out :D

[@VermintideRebel]

And this here my dear friends.. is why I am a square-enix fan! Their gameplay is good, their stories are great, and the flash/wow factor is BEYOND AMAZING!

[@MochaTea94406]

Amen dude... Amen...

[@Tb0n3]

They killed 1.0 because it WASN'T amazing.

[@MyVanir]

And when they mess up, they're not afraid to use napalm to clear the way for something new and better.

[@WillM38]

even when (like in this case) the gameplay is... lets say bogged down by issues... the story and the music STILL manage to get across the emotional weight of the moment, and make for an overall good game. When there are no server issues *cough cough* their productions are nothing short of phenomenal.

[@lastigesoma6126]

Yeah but the only reason they did this was because the game sucked dick

[@ianrsanchez]

After almost a decade, this still sends shivers down my spine.

[@purplefreedom1631]

"We're going to rebuilt the world... but first" *casually nukes the world*

[@quinnie_here]

“We did everything right... and still it comes to this!”

[@B1GG1N]

Thanks for sharing this. It is hauntingly beautiful. I just started playing FFXIV: A Realm Reborn (on Jenova), and seeing how SE transitioned from the 1.0 shutdown straight into that epic ending video (now part of the ARR opening video) was just awesome.

[@soschar2050]

I love how they not just took the game offline, but made the effort to destroy the virtual world as well!

[@KittyNoodlesPPC]

Having only gotten into the game this year I never put much stock into the whole "Dalamud falling gave me ptsd" joke my senior FC members keep making. Now I get it.

[@AttackRaidan]

New FFXIV player here, came to pay my respects to the original game players and the end of it all. Just learned today that this is how it ended. This would’ve broke my heart to be there at that time, and now I know what the opening cutscene stands for (as it never made sense until just now). Happy to be a new player in FFXIV ARR.

[@FreshLexo]

The music playing in the background with all that reverb while they're waiting for the shutdown.....damn man, what a great way to end the first version.

[@myorke99]

omg this was fantastic, thank you so much for posting

[@WhiteLycanXII]

I haven't seen an ending with an impact like that since FFX. If I was around on the servers during 1.x I prolly most likely woulda teared up.

[@cobra29935]

this comment is 5 years old but man I just recently got into this game and watching that intro cutscene again with the build up the music during 1.0 gameplay... im not gonna lie I teared up from the shear awesomeness of the moment.

[@MegaZeb786]

I just realised thats the warrior of darkness and his team lol

[@khangle6872]

He was still a warrior of light tho

[@lilrockstar8170]

Answers has just the most beautiful cinematic evolution. The 9 year build up paid off and really made it hit like no other

[@MegaLpso]

This made me cry like a baby and im in awe at how amazing this is. I started playing final fantasy a month ago and my brother showed me this after i finished the first main story quest. Seeing everyone you know, be terrified and know that this is the end for them, and there is nothing they chould do. and to the players of 2012, they thought this was the end of the mmo, with the world ending and everyone they grew attached dying. The part that made me start tearing up was seeing everyone fight so hard, while Hydaelyn sings in the background. However the part that made me burst into tears, was seeing grandpa smile and accepting his death. He was fine with dying, because he knew everyone he loved was safe, thats what broke me.

[@No1Victim]

Just discovered this three days ago I think, already watched 15+ times. Words cannot describe how awesome this is.

[@sparkdude1723]

After finishing Endwalker, to think that THIS is where it all began for ARR, and paved the way for the stories that followed. Simply majestic.

[@koinu93]

I didn't realize they literally closed the servers with this cutscene. That is freaking AWESOME.

[@kimbyninja]

I have only been playing xiv for a couple years now (started about a month before endwalker released) but this makes me tear up every time I watch it. I can’t even imagine what it was like to witness it as it happened.

[@tystin_gaming]

A moment of respect for the Japanese programmers on both version. They laid their version to rest while passing it over to the next developers and never for a moment was it a brush off. They gave an amazing cutscene and the story continued just as amazing as before.

[@Toapoint]

When I saw this event happen I was anxious. I told myself that MMO's never end. Once the cutscene at the end started... My heart swelled, and at the end I'm like "Omg... why did it end!!!!???" Then the re-release happened.

[@barubary218]

I wonder what it was like to experience this back in the day. To see that cutscene you probably didn’t even know existed. Expecting a rocks fall everyone dies situation then BAM surprise Bahamut destroys everything

[@leaflemon1765]

This hits so much harder having played through. I wanted to know what those before me felt, what they went through. It’s so much more than just a game when it feels like this.

[@thequestion8697]

The music is beautifully haunting. I love it.

[@evangelosjustthat6209]

If you come from Endwalker , the Cutscene ' Live , Die and Know ' and the lyrics you hear , here , will give you Chills .

[@anrukaintutoriais5724]

Nights Illusion: "Its a pleasure alongside you, brothers and Sisters, We gonna Die." Uni Neko: "WE'LL DINE IN HELL TONIGHT!"

[@GameNChick]

exactly! lol

[@rickwilliams5357]

I remember being 11 years old and sitting with my older brother on the night the end of the world happened, both of our characters being forever lost on our shared account, I recently got back into FFXIV a few years ago after he convinced me to try it again, considering how my soul kind of had a moon dropped on it in the sense that it was like losing my whole life, now I'm making my way through ShadowBringer and I've maxed almost 5 jobs to lvl 80, i did my best to make my 2.0 character identical to the screenshots of my old one. Being back in U'ldah and Limsa Lominsa after all these years again, I remember actually crying with my brother over a discord call when I finally heard the main menu music and the classic, beautiful harp of final fantasy playing again when I started the game. I can definitely say no matter who they are, anyone who joins this community, or rather the family that is everyone on FFXIV, you are becoming part of something amazing and so much bigger than ourselves.

[@LuxValkyrie]

“…thou must live, die, and know.”

[@BlueSkyBringsTears]

I'll be honest, I only started FFXIV 3 weeks ago, having never played a single final fantasy game in my life despite being 28. I gave up watching the cutscenes or caring about the story about 3 days in; but watching this leaves in me a burning desire to make a second character just to experience the story with the knowledge and appreciation of what came before.

[@maccheesey2746]

You’re dancing. The world is ending and you are dancing.