Quote Originally Posted by Reslin View Post
1.23 was so good and brought so many people back that.. wait, it didn't? You mean to say there were only an insignificant 30,000 people actually playing? Sorry. I disagree with you and I don't think 1.23 was that great. You stated "If they fixed the core issues.." they did by scrapping it. People like to go "What was wrong with 1.23? Why didn't Yoshi continue with that?" You think he went "It's doing well but lol let's try something else." No. It's because it wasn't doing well. It wasn't bringing anyone back and people were still leaving.
Just playing devil's advocate here, but I don't think it was because of 1.23 that people were not coming back. In general FFXIV 1.xx was a disaster and a flop and that alone made it extremely hard to get people back, especially with knowledge the game was going to be shut down and releasing a brand new version of the game. 1.23 did succeed in making the old version playable. The question they ask is if ARR would be as successful if the battle system stayed with the 1.23 formula, which was okay in it's own right. Would it have the mass appeal that the current system today does? We won't ever know, since we have a brand new system in place and it isn't going anywhere. So all people can do is leave it up to speculation. However, people thinking SE can just flip the switch and go back to 1.23 have unrealistic expectations and don't know what the process even is of changing the core fundamentals of the entire game.