As a side note nekrothing, you should move over to my thread and paste your op and leave a like as its slightly larger (don't need duplicate threads splitting things).
You can find that here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...Classic-Server
As a side note nekrothing, you should move over to my thread and paste your op and leave a like as its slightly larger (don't need duplicate threads splitting things).
You can find that here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...Classic-Server
Lol, SE needs to give these people troll titles. Posts like this are cluttered with so much misinformation and no representation of the FFXI community at all or past community at all.
Anyways, as much as I agree with you OP, and is quite apparent in the other thread. I am not a big fan of people creating what looks like alt accounts to clutter the forums with what they think is a good idea. Also considering at the time of your post, the other thread was basically at the top of General Discussions, it's pretty hard to miss. Let me rephrase that, you actually have to go OUT of your way to miss it. Now I may be wrong, but considering how soon each thread has been with each other, I'm assuming you are an alt given your post history is directly related to this subject.
Again, I do agree with you, and SE should take advantage of this notion that isn't new. People have been suggesting this years. Hell, I made a thread about it I think in even 2010? So it's been a long time suggestion.
Sadly the biggest reason for not having a server is the whole "needed a 6 man party to do 99% of the non-end game content" and 18 ppl for all endgame. I do not think there would be enough players to have such a server. But that is my opinion. As long as SE doesn't roll the rest of us back I could care less. Though if SE is unwilling to make a server that is "retro" maybe they should look in to letting the privet server community that does stuff like that for many many many games, have a crack at the older content i.e. everything up to the cap increase. So that would be the last patches just before Abyssea.
I'm not an alt, I'm a returning player. Square's discount campaign has the Ultimate Collection marked down to $10, which I bought. I didn't see the other thread because I didn't bother to look for any recent threads regarding classic servers. I just happened to make one myself at around the same time as Natasha.
Just goes to show how much interest there is in the idea, though.
I should also point out that most of the time unless a post or original post gets 10+ likes you it goes relatively unnoticed. So far you guys have 2 on this one and 5 on the other. Best of luck in your endeavors.
Well that is another issue, considering the majority of people who even want this aren't playing the game, it's almost impossible to get enough likes without some sorts of advertisement on the players part. Even worse considering that statistics are usually released at some point for active users that actually use the forums, and for most games it's like 10% give or take.
True, most of the people who are interested in a classic server have no real way of having their voices heard concerning the matter. But like you've said, the forums represent only a minority of the players opinions. Think of all the players who are currently subscribing that would be interested in the idea, but don't post on the forums. Or all of the potential players outside of the game that are interested in the idea but are unable to express their views because they're unable to post here.
Classic servers have proven to be successful, especially in Lineage 2's case. If it could financially benefit the overall development of the game, I don't see the harm in gauging interest in the idea of a classic server with some sort of community or public poll.
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