Classic Server

[Alhanelem]

He doesn't have to prove anything Draylo says is wrong anyway, he has no info and the request isn't to him.

The thing is, Plumb doesn't either. He's just declaring people to be wrong with no basis.

And @ Draylo and Alhanelem obviously you both aren't seeing the petition, just because people do not hitting a "Like" button on here does not mean it isn't supported, petition barely created and has more than triple the support than this thread.

Internet petitions are highly abuseable and I put no stake in them whatsoever. Since posting here requires a game account and you have to buy more copies of the game to have more accounts, vote padding is far less likely. Internet Petitions are also not scientific and do not prove anything.

Again, I'm not against the concept of the idea itself, but rather i object to the potential disruption it would cause to current players enjoying the current game in its current state. I also highly doubt that even the people on this petition supporting the idea would come back for very long if the "old" server didn't get content updates (if it did, it would eventually return to where we are now and render the whole thing pointless)- and if it got content updates, that would hamper the progress of the main game. So the only way this can happen is if the dev team is suddenly given more resources to work with than they have currently. Even if you have 1000 people who say will definitely play on a retro server, they may all play at different times and the number of simultaneous users will be quite low, and they will have the same problem.

To truly make this work, you'd need overwhelming support from the entire current and former playerbase. If even the official forum community isn't rallying behind it, I just don't see that happening, no matter how many signatures you have on an off-site petition.

(in before someone just declares me to be "wrong" with no real basis).

But it seems that all-or-nothing is the going meme here. People saying it was all horrible back then, or all great, or whatever. The truth is more subtle and common-sense - there have been some great improvements to the game since 2008~ and also some detrimental changes. And those changes are appreciated differently by different players. It is very complex and so the universal "it is better" or "it is worse" is not useful, imho. Some things are better, some are worse.

I have to say I agree with this sentiment. There isn't really a cut and dry hate and love for a certain era of the game. Different people like different parts of what's happend and dislike others.

When I look at people who quit 5+ years ago though, I don't see them as having left and not returned "because abyssea" or "because insert feature here is no good", because they haven't experienced those contents. If they don't like them, it's merely a perception given to them by word of mouth, and not based on actual experience. So with all due respect, how do you know people who quit a long time ago wouldn't like the game now? You may think they wouldn't, and that's fine, but that's an opinion not a fact.