Article: It's the End of the World as we know it

[Jiro]

It's finally happened. The moon of Dalamud has come crashing down, signalling the end of Final Fantasy XIV 1.x. If you weren't there to witness the of the game yourself, then you're not quite out of luck - I have a video showing the epic climax to 1.x right here. Almost as good as being there, right?

The video takes us to the scene of a fierce final battle between the heroes - that's you, the player! - and Garleans forces. Both sides are taking heavy casualties. Cid watches on from a cliffside, but his focus remains on Dalamud. As it should be: as the moon descends, it opens to reveal (SPOILER)Bahamut! In true Bahamut form, he proceeds to absolutely decimate everything as fragments of meteors impact the planet.

It really is something you need to see; words can't quite convey the sheer awesome of the images! The music backing the video, Answers, is sung by Susan Calloway, one of the guest performers at the Distant Worlds concerts too.

See for yourself:

[Ouch!]

After a night of reminding everyone why they're moving to new servers in the first place (the current servers could not handle the load of everyone logging on to make one last stand against the Empire as they marched from Clastrum Novum), Square Enix released the End of an Era video on YouTube tonight which featured the fall of Dalamud.

Watch it here.

[Loony BoB]

One of the best cutscenes I have ever seen in a game. Just epic. Totally epic. Watched it a few times already.

[Quindiana Jones]

Holy smurfing Jesus bloody Christ. Well done, SE.

[Psychotic]

That was amazing.

[ShinGundam]

One of the best cutscenes I have ever seen in a game. Just epic. Totally epic. Watched it a few times already.

You mean the best ending.

[SwordFox]

I really wish I could have been playing when this happened. But... Wow. That was absolutely amazing. One of the best looking game endings ever right there.

[Bahamut2000X]

The little smile on Louisoix's face at the end was one of the most epic and depressing things I've ever seen in my life. Not gonna lie, even I had to hold back a few man tears.

[Raistlin]

Dammit, I got home late last night and went to bed completely forgetting about this (although if the servers were as bad as Ouch! said, maybe I didn't miss much). But that was an incredible ending scene.

[Futan]

Also completely forgot. :/ But definitely epic. Needs moar MNK though. >____>

[Ouch!]

For the record, playing when this happened is irrelevant. At 3:00 AM the servers shut off. The log-in page then directed you to this video. It was never in-game, and most everyone who tried to participate in fighting the waves of Imperials (which were trash mobs just like the imperials appearing randomly in certain areas for the past month and a half) were faced with constant disconnections.

[Loony BoB]

Yeah, the event was fairly underwhelming if only due to the congestion lag. But we did down an absolute buttload of high level mobs with many members. Mor Dhona was terrible but it was alright in Ul'dah, despite the mobs being a higher level. Defeated four Bixie mobs, stormed Castrum Novum, crashed a couple of times, fought a few more enemies, enjoyed chatting with a few LS friends and then it crashed right at the end and we watched the video.

[I Don't Need A Name]

That video was incredible! And having heard Answers live twice now, it still gets better with every listen! Especially when coupled with that video.. Looks like it's certain that I'll be upgrading my computer in time for A Realm Reborn! And I'll need to sit and research the backstory to all of the original FFXIV (just so I don't feel like a complete noob when playing. I'm sure you won't need it, but completionalism OCD is a bitch)

[Freya]

You can bash SE all you want but they really know how to make epic cinematics! LIKE HOLY MOLY that was so freaking awesome.

[Mirage]

It usually takes way less awesome than this to bring out tears for me, so you can imagine how I was doing while watching this.