Classic Server

[Alhanelem]

Okay...? Then you don't have to. We're not asking for every server to be reverted back to the way they were.

Unless everyone got on board with it, you'd have exactly the same problem that I had back in the day.

There just aren't enough like minded people to populate a server and not have the problem of waiting too long to be able to do something.

You also try to validate your argument by implying that all quality of life changes that currently exist in the game have been there since said era that players want. When that is completely fabricated and not true at all.

That's... not what I said at all? In fact, I was quite sure i said the exact opposite? that many QOL changes have been introduced since said era, not that they already existed before the end of it?

You yourself admit to not even having an active subscription at this time, also negating any real opinion you have since I can just assume you have no idea what you are saying about current FFXI.

Way to make assumptions and find excuses to invalidate my opinions. My opinions are my opinions, you can't just say something and invalidate them.

I played almost continuously up til just before the release of audolin. Even after audolin I've been playing on and off. CURRENTLY AT THIS PRESENT MOMENT i am not subscribed, but I am playing the free week and am playing as I write this.

Why are you so anxious to tear apart anyone who doesn't agree with the premise of the thread? How about you just let me and anyone else who might be in my position have their opinion and agree to disagree? How about base your criticisms on real issues rather than your judgement of my playtime?

To your last paragraph, that is one reason these servers could prove successful,

My las paragraph describes why they probably wouldn't be successful- Because the reasons that people are playing or not playing right now wouldn't be fixed by sending the game through a time machine.

Gullibleness aside really assuming you think they haven't backed up anything let alone being able to recreate anything.

I wouldn't be so sure about this. Even in FFXIV they apparently don't keep some of their data very long (when "Savage" version of Second Coil of Bahamut was released, people asked if they'd do it for the first one and the Producer said that he wasn't sure if they still had the original data from when coil was being developed). Even if they did, it would be no simple matter to introduce a server like this. It would take development resources and would slow down progress on updates for the current game. You're basically asking them to have two development branches- and unless the "old server" branch gets some kind of updates and new content, you're going to get bored with it eventually. So lets say they do make new content for the old version- now we have fewer resources spread across two development branches. I really don't see how this is feasable, even if playing devil's advocate and regarding this idea as more popular than I think it is.

I don't feel like this idea is realistically doable by the development team, even if I did want it. It would come at the expense of all the people currently playing the current game.