Final Fantasy XIV 1.23b - Would you Play it if Available?

I love to go back at 1.23. The main reason for me are the players, everyone was helpful. To think there is no DF/PF and every one shouts for dungeons, you can get a party to do a raid. Everyone was so passionate about the game and I can feel the devs willingness to make the game better (right now I feel FF14 lost it's drive to be better/great but it is becoming a cash grab to the players). And finally the mystery beyond the zones (I hate the copy pasted ones) like if you see a level 90 monster roaming hahaha.

I love the current iteration of FFXIV, but I would love to play 1.x for story reasons. And before you say, "You can watch cutscenes on Youtube", there's no context, and I want to be able to walk around in the world with my character, and talk to the random NPCs to see their flavor dialogue. (I also want my character to have an ass)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MidnightCerise

I love the current iteration of FFXIV, but I would love to play 1.x for story reasons. And before you say, "You can watch cutscenes on Youtube", there's no context, and I want to be able to walk around in the world with my character, and talk to the random NPCs to see their flavor dialogue. (I also want my character to have an ass)

---

the butt thing from 1.0 is overblown by one screenshot where characters are in different poses at different angles. At this point, its a joke that 1.0 had bigger butts.

I'm sure you can still find the 1.0 benchmark somewhere. That shows the butts were flat there too.

I would play it if only to experience 1.0 content since I got the game at 3.2 ~ 3.3 ish.

I absolutely loved that version on the game. It held that element of danger, players had grit, and the community was much better imo. Content in the game mattered. notorious monsters.. that had drops to make awesome gear... Fights that wasn’t nerfed because people strove to make themselves a better player by learning the fight and obtaining gear. The gear for the most part now looks like garbage ..and has the same hamster wheel routine to obtain. The pollution of minions , mounts , and cash shop is utterly ridiculous. I think they need to get back to the roots of final fantasy in a lot of ways ..that being said the newest version does some things I like as well but over all they scraped to much of what the original had that made those stick with game when it was having trouble 1.23b was in the right path.. if they do t want to make a classic server.. I’d say open up the code so that that version could be enjoyed privately.

Wouldnt mind the story aspect of 1.0 and some of element's that are not around anymore.

Like exploring had more of element of danger compared to the game now. Had to wait for the boat lol. Limsa lominsa was a single zone.

Definitely miss raising attrubutes and such. So disappointed they took that away eventually.

Also liked the opening sequence for each city state back then.

Maybe one day they'll implement something un the future to revisit parts of story pre ARR.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

the butt thing from 1.0 is overblown by one screenshot where characters are in different poses at different angles. At this point, its a joke that 1.0 had bigger butts.

I'm sure you can still find the 1.0 benchmark somewhere. That shows the butts were flat there too.

---

This. They were a bit higher-poly, though, which is partly what allowed for those different poses to show more difference than the same would if both were in ARR+. Well, that and the lighting differences.

1.0 is why i know SE could do better, and sadly yoshi doesn't realize that just because western mmo's took off doesn't mean that what tanaka did with both XI and XIV 1.0 was bad, the design behind it was just flawed. It feels as though this dev team and yoshi in particular are intentionally not looking at what came before, either out of fear of another dalamud or they just really think a copy of WoW is the answer. Even though WoW had its own downfall when it's developers started creating garbage from Cataclysm on. There is no danger in XIV today, just thousands of hollow quests, FATEs and acres of open world gone to waste.

I wouldnt play it again as it was... but I'd love if the 1.X MSQ could be adopted into XIV in some playable form or fashion. Even if it was an entire flash back patch or some such.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by azura84

Yt feels as though this dev team and yoshi in particular are intentionally not looking at what came before, either out of fear of another dalamud or they just really think a copy of WoW is the answer.

---

Let me look into my crystal ball. WoW is singlehandedly the most successful MMORPG ever created, and may very well be the most successful video ever created. Yoshi said WoW was the basis for XIV and in era in which they are plenty of F2P games, it's done well for a subscription service.

So, yes, copying WoW is the answer.

Also, in terms of looking at what came before, Square literally runs a first generation MMO. XI is still running and doing well, but it's not exactly breaking subscription numbers.