The only way to play classic stuff the old way is to die 100,000x till you delevel your mainjob to 75, than switch to merit points (Or just level a job to 75) and some how find people that actually do stuff outside of Abyssea and would like to play in this certain way.

Maybe there should be a hardcore server idk, but if you are serious about this than just setup a linkshell and maybe a website focused on this.