Classic Server

[Seish]

I will work backwords with your comments as that is the best way to make sense of your weak and incohesive argument. The aspect of lv sync at 75 rrequires that one of the jobs are 75 to begin with. I am sure you are aware of this. Bundle that with the lack of HNM's, JA behavior, Job adjustments, food adjustements, armor augmentation, as well as HNM and NM behavior adjustments make what you say impossible. While in theory you can sync, not many players are at lv75. You are missing that this game isn't just about banding with friends and doing old lv75 content as you'd like. It's about the journey there and the challenge. Current retail does not allow for this challenging journey for many players and which is why trying to do it on a current server to be impossible as people would remember it. Not because it's impossible theoretically, anyone that still has a 75 job could get a lv sync. Rather, it's the way the game is now and how the jobs are adjusted. There are too many changes to players that would prevent that.

You've said in other posts about splitting the community and I've stressed that it wasn't. I've also pointed out, with you conceeding this fact, that you are emotionally tied to the game as it currently is and your current experience--that tie is emotionally clouding your judgment here and it shows. As I've said before, they have the version log history and the origional build of the game exists--which is NOT THE SOURCE CODE. Those are completely different and unrelated things. They have it, unless a Dev or a moderator comments otherwise, it's fair to assume they have the original build. From there, they can go back to a point in time--let's say RoTZ--and start there as that's when most the NA players came on board. Ok cool. Now you mention content, well they continue release content until ToAU and see what happens. All of this, mind you, has already been done. None of this is reinventing the wheel and which is why I made the comment of this not being the source code. If they wanted to redesign the game from scratch while keeping heavy elements of the core itself, then they would be forced to use the source code. This isn't that at all and above all, little manpower in development, if any, would be required. The most expensive part would be to do a study as to how far back this server should go. The servers they already have--if they didn't, we wouldn't be playing now would we .

So unless SE says they don't have the original build, I would suggest you stop that argument here and now. The original build IS NOT THE SAME AS SOURCE CODE. As you said in a previous thread you have mistaken the original build for the source code prior to me educating you the romor dealt with the source code and listed examples as to what that meant. But even you conceeded that you said it was heresay and something you couldn't verify prior to continuing that argument. But let's say that article of the source code was correct, it wouldn't matter because the original build is not source code. If you want to learn more, I'd suggest googling what source code is.

Now that we got that out of the way, there is absolutely no reason why they couldn't. And trying to equate to what someone could do in current retail won't play out quite the same as how the game was "In Era". Now I suggest unless you have some more information about this, such as an article that actually says SE lost the builds too--which I doubt with version control that would ever happen--then everything excluding dividing the community lays flat. But seeing the post above hasn't addressed that after I addressed it prior, I guess you conceded this fact? But if you have not, I repropose my example of Ninja and his following eager to play a classic FFXI. Or those that play in private servers itching for something more. There is a market and you cannot deny it. And this gets to your last point about limited resources. While you state that, having a classic server would only generate revenue. Even you said there would be a short following and interest in the post prior to my last one. So a game that is stagnant couldn't hurt getting the resources it needs. If there's an interest, why not capitalize on it? With what I read so far, you have not clearly shown me where significant resources would be required to create a classic server.

But better yet, and as I've said in another thread to you and others, is that it keeps being brought up BECAUSE there is a necessity for it. Just because you do not see a need doesn't mean others don't. I am sure at the end of the day though, you won't change your opinion. But unless it's something substantial, you shouldn't flaunt it around as fact. This thread is proof that the discourse between both positions on a classic server is not only alive, but something to consider.