Classic Servers

[Lortheron]

Everyone seems to voice wanting a CoP era classic server and maybe include TAU with none of today's QoL enhancements and the ability to spend time doing content rather than spending 45 minutes waiting for the replacement tank to get to Kazham and the party disbanding while tank is on the way. I just cannot see how a server that is less player friendly would be worth the time for the Devs to work on at the expense of keeping the game alive and adding content for everyone to do.

Not NONE of QoL improvs just not ALL.

[Tharly]

Not NONE of QoL improvs just not ALL.

Then it's not classic. It will never be the same as it once was. Why should they spend resources to remove things from the game when they can add instead? You can already play a style that could be considered classic, but nobody does. People cannot even agree on what classic would mean.

[Pixela]

They can't afford to do classic builds (not that there is much demand anyway). It's all hands on deck to update the main game, most of their time goes into the updates planned for the 20th.

[Lortheron]

WHM taking the time and effort, to quest their Teleport scrolls, and then being able to Teleport the party, made them a unique part of the team. Now almost entirely useless thanks to HP/SG warps, and mounts.

The connections made, when asking for a Teleport. You met a new person. You chatted. It felt nice.

This is a small example of Lost Culture. You can't pick-and-choose with Culture.

The new game lacks those bonds of friendship and reliance, bonds which were forged in adversity. I describe the new game as basically solo-player. I think that is tragic.

But you can, just takes some time to figure out how to estimulante people to do things like what you described, make it worth while while still having some few new places where can teleport, for example.

Just like airships, for example too: the middleground would be having airships available every 3m, instead of 11m. And make the trips faster and even cheaper (50gil), maybe add some more shops with random unique cheaper than usual items inside the airships and more quests and encounters involving them...

That is a comfortable middleground. The teleport anywhere free of charge is just the oposite extreme and doesn't improve on the original experience.

And that's just an example of a possible middleground that would make oldschool player happy. Improve and make the old experience better, a bit faster, yes, but don't CHANGE the core original experience to something else totally different. That's my point.

[Pixela]

jI haven't played in quite some time. I made a new character and came back hoping for the same or at least a similar experience.. What I got was me joining a party where everyone gets 1000-2000 xp per kill and I get 200-600... I go from level 15 to 20 and they go from 15 to 35 in under an hour.. wth?!

what are you talking about? trolling or something?

[Cesil]

While I don't know how successful classic servers would be, I think it would be in their best interest to actually update the game to not run on 56k, and actually have it load inventory instead of having to sit and wait 30+ seconds every time I zone and run on modern connection speeds.

They should also consider updating the graphics.

I dunno though, I have a lot of LS and we do a lot of stuff, but lack of amount of players, or maybe its the changes made in the game, but the social aspect feels like its long gone and that is what made this game so wonderful a lot of the times.

[Lortheron]

While I don't know how successful classic servers would be, I think it would be in their best interest to actually update the game to not run on 56k, and actually have it load inventory instead of having to sit and wait 30+ seconds every time I zone and run on modern connection speeds.

They should also consider updating the graphics.

I dunno though, I have a lot of LS and we do a lot of stuff, but lack of amount of players, or maybe its the changes made in the game, but the social aspect feels like its long gone and that is what made this game so wonderful a lot of the times.

That would be a good start to catch up with game a bit. The game has been given basically zero real attention from Square Enix since 2016.

How many subscribers, active, the game currently has? At the very least ~7'000, and probably something around ten thousand players with active subscriptions given that Asura has around ~4K characters registered in it, and both Odin and Bahamuth more than 2K each, plus numbers from other servers. That's around 100K USD$ per month now (and I bet it was much more than that around 2015~2018, and a whole lot more before that). I trully do not believe even half the current game income goes towards improving it and they probably need just a small fraction of said income to keep servers running. So it's a business decision and not a lack of actual resources to keep the game as is ever since 2016. They prefer to invest the money elsewhere, and not back into the game, that's the truth.

[Trublade]

I’m not trolling. My brother has all or most of the expansions complete and he’s making insane xp per kill with the XP band active.
This is hardly the same game it was at launch at this point. Just not what I was hoping for in that regard. Still fun to be had here, especially with the graphical mods and updates but I was looking forward to a more reserved speed.
And I disagree with the sentiment that low level gear should be useless along with low level crafting. Stating your personal opinion as a fact, doesn’t make it a fact.

[Alhanelem]

It’s ridiculous how SOME of you feel like your opinion is a fact and that you alone should dictate the direction of the game.
And no I’m not trolling. My brother has all or most of the expansions complete and he’s making insane xp per kill.
This is hardly the same game it was at launch at this point. Just not what I was hoping for in that regard. Still fun to be had here, especially with the graphical mods but I was looking forward to a more reserved speed. And I disagree with the sentiment that low level gear should be useless along with low level crafting. Again, stating your personal opinion as a fact, doesn’t make it a fact.

I never claimed my opinion itself was a fact. But my opinion does in part draw upon the actual fact that SE themselves has said they have no intention of doing it. I merely listed many reasons why that is probably the case. Feeling strongly about an opinion does not mean it is being treated as fact.


And of course it isn't the same game that we had at launch. ALL MMOs change over time. People really need to start realizing and accepting that. Nostalgia is a pair of rose tinted glasses. FFXIV is vastly different now than 9 years ago as well.