Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
The thing is, Plumb doesn't either. He's just declaring people to be wrong with no basis.

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).
Again, whos to say it would affect the current players servers at all? As for how far the updates to this classic server would go obviously it would have to be well thought out seeing as those who support it do not want an ilvl system nor Abyssea put in, so as far as that goes may as well do away with Abyssea and SoA keeping the other content added to old zones, ex: meebles WoE etc..and again MANY players dont even bother with forums I personally find these forums nothing more than a troll fest where people mock one another while some debate is actually worth the time. I am merely here to do some support for the game due to the fact i did enjoy the old ways, and yes the petition is abuseable obviously with Cloud, Jack, and Mr. Rice on there. however, the amount of support it can potentially gain that are authentic people is greater than those who would bother with these forums again, stating it usually isn't worth the time to get on these. Wether or not this server comes to be will highly weigh on few factors.
1. SE's profit in it, (they wont risk a loss of $$$ that's for sure)
2. The amount of people that would actually go to this server (highly variable considering there is definitely over 1k people who support this idea, but wont bother to support using the same excuses of SE hasn't the money, not enough people etc, but fact is ONLY SE can say wether they do or do not have the resources to do so and will act accordingly. As well as you stated saying you do not want the current group who enjoy FFXI as is to be disrupted, again only SE can say what they can or can not do. (would be nice for a dev to poke in just to answer that question to alleviate that matter and take that worry off some people's shoulders)