The Fall and Rise of Final Fantasy XIV | Episode Four | A Hero Rises

[@Dragonsamuari]

The fact that Yoshida had the balls to not just remake the game from scratch, but to end the world as a way to transition is something we'll probably never see happen again.

[@Gento70]

I really love how the solution to their shitty MMO was to literally blow it up. Considering the glorious phoenix that 2.0 and onward was, it was so worth it.

[@andreworders7305]

Lol

[@SUPERSIDESWIPER]

@@557deadpool what are you talking about you insane troublemaker

[@nogitsune4452]

Makes you love Yoshida a bit more after watching these, doesn't it?

[@IkariLoona]

He'd feel more loveable if I didn't get the nagging impression he's trying to push XI to its death - XIV's relaunch was successful, and the money from XI's subscriptions helped make that possible, but the dramatic effect of it was that everyone only paid attention to and praised Yoshida, and he was made head of SE's online game division, which superficially makes sense, but now he was running a department in charge of multiple games, one of which he was and is heavily associated with, so when it's time to make financial and promotional decisions, where do you think the money goes? While XIV was doing poorly it was possible to have a discounted joint subscription for both XI and XIV, but after ARR was well established, that option was removed and never reinstated, although it's not uncommon for XIV players to finish playing through the story in new updates, then play XI for a while. XIV gets to have discounted subscription prices if you play for multiple months at a time, but no such option is available for XI, although based on the past joint subscription system and the common billing structure it implies it should be possible. Right now it's more expensive to play the older FF MMO than it is to play the newer one, which makes very little sense - even if XI has a huge amount of content, graphically its age is starting to show, and there's a much smaller dev team working on it nowadays, mostly working on things like new battle content and small quests, so it's not likely to be costing SE a whole lot to keep up compared to how much they're charging. There's also the case of Dragon Quest X, which is unlikely to ever be localized - it'll be on the Nintendo Switch, which is region-free, but there's still no word on whether it'll actually be translated, and there's certainly some interest out there. I sincerely worry about Yoshida trying to make "his" game the only one that's meant to survive at SE at the expense of the other games. While he helped to deal with a lot of issues with Tanaka's mismanagement of the XIV project (something XI also suffered from for a long time, mind you), I fear for the short-sightedness he may have from focusing on "his" game, and the amount of self-promotion he indulges in along the way (getting himself included in the game, now featured in illustrations...). I guess I also miss some interesting ideas XIV 1.x did have, like the ability to progress through the main story as a crafting class through the parlay system, or the division between physical level and class level. It would be interesting to see it revised as a single-player game that would serve as a prequel to the current online game - the assets exist, and there was a lot of interesting and fun dialogue that didn't make it to the cutscenes some have posted on KZbin, which I'd like to still see available somewhere. I suspect, however, that a considerable amount of Yoshida's professional and personal self-image may ride on seeing himself as a saviour from something irredeemably flawed, where there were some interesting qualities in the game that he replaced - it'd be a shame to see those lost forever.

[@jamesjones7034]

Just let it die already man...

[@joumero7493]

I agree with Loona though. Sure Yoshida deserves credit for the awesome things he did but at the same time, he shouldn't get all of the credit. The failure of 1.0 opened up everyone's eyes and forced all of the devs to go in a new direction. It took the effort of everyone to make ARR what it is not just Yoshida.

[@fazlo8026]

Very much so. Yes.

[@john_7000]

@@IkariLoona dude u need help, u r obviously a ff11 fanboy

[@sleepysera]

16:33 Omg, I nearly burst into tears. That's my old LS from 1.x T-T Still have them all on my friend list, but half of them never returned for ARR, and although the other half still plays, we rarely talk or play together now. Man, I miss that time ;-;

[@khangle6872]

That sad

[@Jyxero]

It's not sad, but actually beautiful that it happen... an "once in a lifetime" experience isn't lived by everyone

[@shhs1227]

@@Jyxero a beautiful experience can still be a sad one. they aren't mutually exclusive

[@DrakGamestein]

This was neat! I didn't touch 1.0 since it just looked like a worse version of XI at the time (which I was still playing and thoroughly enjoyed). Cool to see what good ol' Yoshi P took us from, though. :)

[@Trigonxv1]

Drak what are you doing here go do terrible monk dps lol

[@MaggieBer]

he lost his stacks... he was here looking for them.

[@TheGlamourNazi]

You can't catch a break from these jokes, can you Drak?

[@popnkiba]

A small thing, but there were a series of player polls that were conducted very shortly after Yoshida took the helm and opened the official forums - these helped justify the new direction that the game took withe the 1.x updates, and eventually 2.0.

[@Hyskaris]

Square Enix: what do we do?! the MMO is burning, we were supposed to profit off this!! where's OUR heroes?! Yoshida and Soken walking into the room: allow us to introduce ourselves.

[@Lecruidant]

Jesus christ. That opening makes it seem like FFXIV: A Realm ReGLUED

[@SpeakersNetwork]

LOL!

[@Lecruidant]

Also. Lets take notice. He was working on this WHILE in talks and working on (Slightly) redoing it as ARR

[@volibear9376]

I feel the "ugh" at the mention of aurum vale hahaha

[@CinderAshe]

That intro was great. Like the montage you see in post apocalyptic movies chronicling the events leading to the world's demise. Nicely done!

[@GcD9179]

Never played any of 1.0, so this series is fascinating. Thank you.

[@kitprower]

Love it! Something I wanted to add about crafting back in 1.0 was that if you got your progress to 100% at the same turn your durability fell to 0, you failed the synthesis.

[@LilBoyHexley]

This is one of those stories where everything turned out to be a good thing in the end (not for the dev team, unfortunately, but for the game). It’s a good thing that the 1.0 release was a rushed, buggy, mess because I do think many of its flaws really were endemic to it’s actual design. If the game wasn’t so royally messed up we likely would have never ended up with 2.0. But a properly functioning game with the design ethos of 1.0. I guess some people may like this, but 2.0 is designed with a completely different (and much preferred to me) design philosophy. And 1.0 needed to utterly fail in order to make that change happen.

[@alext9983]

Wow, I actually really like the 1.x "Touch Up" thing at the end of crafting. I wouldn't mind that part being re-added to the game.

[@dvsaleios]

Why? It's practically the same as what we have now just presented in a vastly superior way that allows for greater control.

[@kayonesoft]

Yes and no. It's a little bit different. I've botched some crafts a few times because I was trying to touch up the quality and misjudged the amount of progress I could make in a single action, thus running out of durability. Being able to finish the progress of a craft then dump any remaining durability into quality without the fear of losing the craft would be an ease of mind.

[@eji]

1:34 Ahhh so THESE were the true Warriors of Light, saviors of the Realm....

[@OutrageousxEnigma]

I still think its cool how they brought the old gathering mini games into the new gold saucer activities!

[@jaylipovsky6501]

This whole series you're doing is AMAZING....PLEASE hurry with the next episodes. You've got my sub, as this is EASILLY my favorite "documentary" on this game thus far.

[@neocaleric]

thanks for another awesome video. Had no idea 1.0 was patched so much before the Calamity. Also amazing how Yoshi-P and his team turned the destruction of 1.0 and transition to 2.0 into one of the most epic events I've seen in gaming, managing to tell such a cool story at the same time.

[@sixtydiamonds]

Holy shit. This series just keeps getting better in terms of quality. That intro was AMAZING! Kudos to you!

[@AlfonsoSRT]

This series should be on Netflix.

[@jyrque]

Best episode so far. You are more on point on delivering information without resorting to ironic cringe humour. Thanks for that. :D I was about to comment in previous videos that you keep jumping between topics causing a slightly confusing line of logic but this time it was easy to follow without any unnecessary digressions. Keep it up!

[@tantanny]

I had no idea they had a moon crash down onto the world and destroyed it to create Realm Reborn. Destroying something so bad to implement something better, such a fucking cool way of doing it.

[@Aeongeon]

In the game 2.0 and further they constantly bring it up that people are still effected by the fall of the moon in game actually most of the stuff that happens side wise is some side effect from the moons fall. pretty cool

[@tantanny]

John Love Nero That's pretty cool indeed. Does the game show a cutscene of the moon hitting the World?

[@Aeongeon]

Actually the open movie shows what you want to see but since you don't know, lol wait for next episode he'll probably talk about it

[@Aeongeon]

something really close you'll see soon if you havent look on youtube by now for the opening

[@tfangel]

The Binding Coil raids also go into it more, if you don't want to run them, you can see the story here on youtube i believe.

[@Low_Standards_Gaming_YT]

This is a fantastic and well done series sir. As someone who played a bit of 1.0 especially towards the end as these events took place it brings a tear to my eye.

[@JBNL1972]

Been following this series with a lot of interest, fell into FFXIV in 2.5 on friends' recommendation and the journey the game's taken to get there is downright fascinating!! Keep up the great work!

[@SpeedWarrior93]

Liking what you're doing here, I'm learning things I didn't know about how one of my favorite games came to be...great job

[@KuroiGaruga]

This really good and it's nice to see how far the game has come from being a game I wouldn't look twice at to a game that's damn near the only game I play now.

[@Keshin4539]

This series of videos are absolutely fantastic! Love the way the information is presented, the jokes make me chuckle and bring a smile to my face. It's like watching a History Channel made show. So fantastic. Please keep up all the hard work and I'll be looking forward to the rest of the videos!

[@Zeet1]

Great episode. You're really polishing these videos. Keep it up!

[@Soress9]

Awesome editing and well done, can't wait to hear about the fall of Dalamud. It was definitely cool to have a visual view of the moon getting bigger and bigger.

[@holydarkness90]

That opening was incredible awesome job

[@AdventInnocence]

Been loving the series and you got yourself a fresh subscriber after that intro. Just started FFXIV, this is cool to see.

[@kluafoz]

0:28 omg yoship looks so young lolol

[@tessajalloh3914]

Watched these first 4 episodes, enjoyed immensely as a 1.0 veteran all the way from alpha 2. It was painful to relive the worst moments of the game, you're doing a great job with this series!

[@amf1979]

The game really has come so far... I sometimes can't believe I stuck with 1.0 from beta until the servers shut down. I feel lucky to have been a part of the ending. I remember huddling with members of my linkshell (yes, before FC's that's all we had) around a campfire watching Dalamud fall on the night they shut the servers down. We shared so many memories of trying to make our way through with all the problems the game had. Getting to see the "End of an Era" trailer (which is now the opening movie of ARR) with all those friends was so epic.

[@axmccx]

I'm loving this series, looking forward to episode 5!

[@bakacdaz]

9:20 Looking back now It's sound very interesting that FFXIV turned from Financial Blackhole into a kind of Failsafe System for SQ-EN and make the company survived even if one or two of their other projects failed.

[@MistyKathrine]

3:00 I thought the crafting system was fine, the biggest issue was the performance issues that slowed it down. The system itself reminded me of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes. Actually there are a lot of parallels with FFXIV and V:SOH.

[@peterignacio9719]

Great video man! I used to play during 1.0, and I have the legacy chocobo in ffxiv: heavensward to prove it and remembering the random red cheeto puff getting larger and larger every patch reminded me of Majoras mask

[@PubstarHero]

I have been waiting for this video. Especially since I just caught the series right after I actually picked up the game. 1 week in, still on that grind to get to 60.

[@Cillranchello]

Best feature from Yoshi-P's 1.0? HAMLET. Hamlet is unlike any other system I've seen, bringing all aspects of the game into a single event. Crafters Gatherers Battle jobs all working as one, it was a great system and I was really hoping it would be coming back in 2.0. Eh, maybe in Stormblood.

[@Asgard314]

It's interesting watching this alongside the NoClip documentary to reframe the measured interviews with the rougher details. I'm definitely enjoying this video series, I'll definitely subscribe

[@nyatohayashi3437]

That was awesome. Bring the next episode soon please.

[@RedRune9]

Glad I caught this one right as I caught up. Time to worship our savior, Yoshi-P!

[@Andrebonifacio]

This shield crafting summarizes all that was wrong with 1.0. My god. Thank you so much for this series. It's informative and really fun.

[@TheWillOfJ]

I've been really loving this breakdown! As someone who only turned up when HW arrived, I remembered being so shocked that so many of my friends loved FFXIV when right after it's release I had heard nothing but bad shit... to see the steps that it took to get 1.0 to the game that I love is REALLY awesome, and it gives me a whole new appreciation for all the stuff I MANAGED TO NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH! and it fucking figures AV is from 1.0, hehe

[@trentmichaels3150]

This series is fascinating, and I'm so glad you're putting these videos out regularly! Way to end on another damn cliffhanger :|

[@kikurie]

Yessss, I love this! I never did play FFXIV at it's beginning, and being a new player, but seeing this gives me a good insight on the before time. Keep it up!

[@Jkapricorn]

Loving this series. Can't wait to see more

[@AshtearHinoarashi]

Great series. Really looking forward to more of this type historical/analytical content.

[@andrewpelletier7921]

Watching this years later, after Endwalker, and these days Final Fantasy 14 is literally the top MMO in the world. Perfect =)

[@Tsukshiro]

I love this series but i think its so important that you note that during the server changes it was truely a separation of servers, jps largely went to their own servers and na/eu servers were born. We had gigantic parties in uldah to say our farewells in the parting. For true XI players this was a massive step as up until this point we had always been amalgamated into the jp servers. going it alone with only NA's was challenging at times especially for those of us who were ingrained into the blended servers.

[@cjn0423]

I really enjoy these videos! You had to have done a LOT of research and put an equal amount (if not more) into the quality of your videos. I really appreciate that.

[@Ty-dd6pu]

Great ep, cant wait for the next

[@derrickoz]

Woaohhhh the opening is really spiffy. *ThumbsUp*

[@dannytheman2217]

Never played but i enjoy watching and makes me want to play

[@PhewzGlory]

Love this series man! Keep it up as even I who has followed its troublesome development learned some new things :)

[@aurumvale9908]

5:10the time it takes to craft that shiel i could've done one irl

[@Robina123]

Really looking forward to the next video keep up the good work :)

[@hectorruiz2202]

IDK why but I love this videos, great job :D

[@darkwing11]

Crafters and gatherers since Patch 5.4 will throw their keyboards at the screen if they had to do 1.0 crafting and gathering.

[@SuikodenGR]

Another wonderful video :-D Though, I didn't really understand what was different between 1.0 Fishing and what we have now. That's my only confusion. :-)

[@JJBCrimsonKnight]

Looks like it takes wiggling the bait around to catch the fish, instead of just casting your line then getting a fish in 3-6 secs

[@eikekreutz7293]

had to select on the bar where the estimated fish would be, while using the correct hieght of the fishhing area while still risking to lose the fish with a 75% probability, thats 1.0 fishing

[@12tanuha21]

The devs should add the 1.0 fishing into the Gold Saucer, like they did with Miner and Botanist ^^

[@SuikodenGR]

12Tanuha that wouldn't be a bad idea at all. Should post that on the SE discussion forum :-)

[@SylDragonia]

Are the gold saucer minigames homage to this gathering.

[@antonioaguera4580]

I loved the crafting system on XI and the crafting gathering on the first XIV. It was complicated and you felt a sense of accomplishment on a successful craft! Also, is it possible that you had more lag in the U.S.? I live in Europe and I don't remember it being so catastrophically laggy as you describe it, at least not for the gathering and crafting, which I really enjoyed. Ofc you need rivets and leather and plates to make a shield, not just click an ingot or wooden log in a window and a shield magically appears, like every other MMo again

[@RemyBop]

Longer videos pls! This is very good!

[@greenteadiet]

Anyway, now that I've had my fun in other comments, my hat's off to you -- love the series, looking forward to Episode 5.

[@Zerox5861]

That opening sequence fucking rules dog. Thanks for making this, I was actually looking for a 1.0 private server, and now I dont need it lol.

[@lordcritias]

Prolly the best thing that could happen to FFXIV was YoshiP. This guy literally saved the brand and the game! While waiting for Stormblood, lets worship YoshiP and his decision making \o/

[@IdontknowjeezsomanyQ]

haha the sounds effects at 1:12 made me lmao. So unexpected, so good

[@ncken987]

good job dude look forward for next ep

[@alolanjojo8153]

Hi from the 9th anniversary while celebrating the rising in game now

[@GingerYams]

I love that ugh when you said aurum vale so true

[@keithnaori9923]

I am watching your videos first time and in love with your way of telling things XD

[@NotSoMelancholy]

Damn I'd love to see an option that gave the ui in ARR the same style as 1.0s (Or at the very least give us the ability to have our FC crests in our name) All the good looks (for the most part) of 1.0's combined with the functionality of ARR's would be great.

[@lurkervi8737]

Hey! You did get it out before the patch! Good job dude! ♥

[@SpeakersNetwork]

Thanks \:D/

[@Iddragon]

good news brother, continue these series its so epic 1

[@BouncerAllods]

I enjoy this and seriously would love a lore video with everything that happened in 1.0 leading up to 2.0 I actually haven't found a person who has made a lore video for 2.0 or 3.0 to current date so far I'd love that too for a TLDR for us who skip cutscenes lel :P

[@JamieMartin]

great series. good job.

[@thatfunnyguy182]

wow really great informational video! love this stuff

[@Ephremjlm1]

Dude i love your narrating. You need to get a job with one of the big game review agencies haha.

[@patriceguerrero7649]

Can I just say I adore your opening?! It makes me feel like I'm watching a TV show xD

[@PhilippeAllardRousse]

Best timing with the update.

[@CharlemagneIfrit]

LOL so much Selbina/Ridill footage. Recognised a lot of names in there. Still in an fc with one of them.

[@smashi4088]

13:04 I know it's pretty meaningless but the fact that going to *a* moon of Hydaelyn in a patch/expansion was an idea all the way back then is pretty funny

[@TheDreamYouSaw]

Love this series!

[@ViewTube_Dan]

07:40 Rowiener

[@Rikudae]

when comes episode 5 ^-^ ? really waiting for it :D

[@SpeakersNetwork]

Around Wednesday/Thursday! Sorry to keep you waiting! \o'/

[@Rikudae]

No Problem \o/ And thanks for the answer ^-^

[@bradleymartin6254]

I have never played the original, and only tried out a 2 week trial of ARR but I thought it was excellent and it would be my goto mmo for sure. You're video series on it's development has been very cool to watch.

[@trips487]

The game is amazing but the community is extremely toxic just like all mmos. If you're a brand new player expect to be bitched at for not knowing how to do certain dungeons and what not. Pretty much why I stay away from mmos and went back to console games. So many stuck up asshats that don't care to help out new players and just bitch at you if you do something wrong.

[@SpeakersNetwork]

This comment puzzles me. I have always felt like FFXIV has one of the best communities out there. Sure there are the occasional bad apples, but overall FFXIV, to me, has a very friendly community!? We might have just been lucky with our data center and server, but usually when a new players enters a dungeon, people get happy cause they get tomestone bonuses for it, and we have mentors that are there to help you! Also, getting a nice helpful Free Company helps a lot too, if you're worried about entering a dungeon for the first time alone.

[@ZioSerpe]

to be honest I really enjoyed the gathering minigame in 1.x especially the mining radar. it was terribly impractical and random, but I miss it

[@shiro3146]

now it makes sense! Dalamud were Supposedly used for 1.0 of Endwalker expansions,but due to 1.0 flop yoshida and team make it as the most epic server unplug ever

[@sixshots6949]

like what someone else commented I like how their solution was just to basically drop a nuke. Most other scummy MMO teams are like "well they still give us their money so it's not that bad"

[@GYIYGABITE.]

THIS is the kind of videos I've been searching for. I know that FF14 1.0 was at a major disaster, but I think you're the only one that is going into great details of what happened. I'm looking forward to your next series. I started playing FF14 back in 2015 and up to this day I LOVE it and looking forward to Stormblood. But there's something that puzzled me for awhile and I need clarification: Some players actually defended 1.X and were not happy with the transition to 2.0. I don't know how accurate that is but why would people defend something that is clearly flawed? Is there something that I missed?

[@KrishLius]

is episode 5 out yet? :o cant wait! love these. i used to play 1.0 all the way til its doom. and then played ARR

[@SpeakersNetwork]

Tomorrow ;) (unless I screw it up lol)

[@Shiirow]

Ah yes, I remember fishing well... I think the first thing I did was a fishing leve when I first started my miqo character after buying I think a digital collectors edition. I dont think I played much after that, since I chose Black Shroud as my starting area. I still have my goggles attached to my account though, I love to glamour them.

[@Starknight94]

Keep up the good work man. Release the next video soon!

[@shirox11]

Yoshida has aged so much. The stress of being the top guy for xiv for so many years has taken years off his life.

[@Shizuka965]

maan, i wasn't expecting 1.0 gathering to be the gold saucer minigames lol

[@ethermelt4780]

Yoshi-P's best 1.x content, I think, was the Hamlet Defense. fun content you can do as ANY job, (crafter, gatherer, battle), success didn't require everyone to be godly unified hardcore dedicated teams, and success merited good gear, good drops, and a full 100 anima.

[@danvine6315]

NO! I need more! When's the next video coming?

[@thebigg3416]

The opening was powerful

[@chyhart]

i love they included the gathering system as mini games in Gold Saucer... so awful! haha