suggestion for an upcoming patch/expansion

Alexander is a time machine, the story progression for alexander states as much, that being said is there any way we can revisit the main scenarios and quests and activities (without the game breaking stuff) of the original FFXIV (1.0). A lot of people did not get a chance to experience that game prior to ARR and i think this would be a good chance to experience the events that shaped ARR

Speaking as a 1.0 player who was actually there and experienced it. No.. just.. no.

Part of 1.0's problem was it's enormous, yet copy-and-pasted textured zones, and so any hypothetical 'return to Sixth Astral Era' Eorzea wouldn't even be 1.0 really, or how Eorzea looked in 1.0, it would just be a pre-Calamity zone rendered in ARR's engine accordingly, so it wouldn't even be the same thing at all experienced in 1.0.

And to say nothing of how little there actually was of story and questing (another gripe players had), and what there was just so disjointed - there was the short starting city storylines that never ultimately went anywhere, the Path of the Twelve story that was abandoned after the quest that introduced Gaius, and the 'Seventh Umbral Era' story concerning Dalamud's fall and the formation of the Grand Companies, and a handful of fetch quests that are rendundant now. That was it. ARR also actually cannibalized 1.0's story anyway for ideas and concepts (ARR is not just a sequel to 1.0 but a literal reboot, so you'd just be covering the same old ground really).

1.0 is gone forever, and fully deserved to be put out of it's misery, let it stay dead.

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Originally Posted by Ryhilian

Alexander is a time machine, the story progression for alexander states as much, that being said is there any way we can revisit the main scenarios and quests and activities (without the game breaking stuff) of the original FFXIV (1.0). A lot of people did not get a chance to experience that game prior to ARR and i think this would be a good chance to experience the events that shaped ARR

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Please no lol. 1.0 was like the worst version of a gacha game experience (in mmo form) being written by the same dudes that did XI (which is fine in its own, but also incredibly dated). 1.23B was playable, but barely worth the time investment. The real experience came from having your graphics card melt within your pc. That's the only way to really experience it