Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
Ironically, Yoshi did in fact plan to keep 1.0's servers up and active as long as there was sufficient interest from players. Accordingly he actually brought the game back online after the initial shutdown for a little over a month at the end of 2012, but because no one really cared SE decided to shut it down for good on December 31st 2012. So yeah, players had their chance and squandered it.

Although there are some things I miss from 1.0, ARR is just better in every way, and thus 1.0 thoroughly deserved it's bullet behind the ear.
They didn't care because anything you did or win wouldn't be saved hence pointless to play and waste time. Now if progress was saved then...