On Sunday, 11 November 2012
During the last few week's, Square-Enix have hyped 'The end of an era' event on Final Fantasy XIV. For week's, we have seen the imperial's invading Eorzea. For weeks, we have waited..
Now, November 11th 2012, The end has arrived.
At 6.00am (GMT), players from all over the globe logged in to the FFXIV servers to see the end. At 7.00am, most of those players were still waiting to get in. Luckily, i managed to get in at 6.15, and for the best part, managed to stay logged in.
As soon as I was in, i headed to Camp Brittlebark to help in the fight against the Empire. With promises of an epic battle between good & evil, I was more than up for the challenge. But when I arrived at Brittlebark, I was shocked to find out that it was the same as it had been for the last two weeks. Imperial's attacking the zone. Ul'dah was the same. So I thought i'd wait. Square told me something was going to happen at Brittlebark, so i waited.
7.50am rolled around, and apart from the odd disconnection, the area remained the same. Only a handful of imperial troops randomly spawning & a boss fight with a lv100 Juggernaught, but nothing really to deserve dragging many players out of bed, and forcing them to go without sleep (me included)
Then, at exactly 8.00am, without any major event script leading up to it, the servers were shut down without notice.
----The Below paragraph was taken from unfathomablewritings - I really could not have put this better myself----
In the end, spending those last two hours in the game were wasted for most players, but it was not all bad. Once the servers were brought down, we were treated to a CGI video cutscene that blew everyone away. There is no doubt that Square outdid themselves with that video, and many believe it made up for the disaster that was the event. Only downside was that you didn't need to take part in the event to see the cutscene.
The video is one of the best uses of CGI i have seen, coupled with Final Fantasy's amazing music collection, this really is worth a watch. If i had to do this morning all over again, I would without a moments notice. It was great seeing so many lost players online & a Linkshell full of people i only see now & again. The atmosphere around the end was better than the actual thing, but this video..... this video is something else.
Enjoy & i'll catch you in 2.0 - Final Fantasy XIV A Realm Reborn.
