Quote Originally Posted by mattkoko View Post
I understand this. My point is why risk losing money when they are already making a steady income from the current game. I am not trying to read SE's mind or anything. Just making a point. It is impossible to make an informed decision with out weighing both the risks and the benefits. First comes weighing the risks with the benefits, then comes deciding whether it is worth the risk. There is no way you can possibly say this can be a complete success. I already admit I think it is a cool idea. And I am all for making everyone happy. But if it doesn't work and it does fail and it kills FFXI all together, then no one is happy. I can see SE being worried about something like this.
I highly doubt it would kill FFXI, considering the fact this would be 1 server while the other current ones would still be running. If charged the usual monthly fee for this classic server as well and it brought people in the gain would be there and even if its not a gain then the current servers would still bring the profit. The costs to run a server such as this is questionable considering it wouldnt really be any different than the others aside from some changes here and there, however it could take some time to add/remove things as needed to get a classic server within an acceptable range adding all the new beneficial things from current ffxi to old ffxi ex: more storage, the changes to dynamis, HNMs, etc (think id keep few warps and do away with all the others lol)