If SE put up one server of final fantasy 14 1.0 would you go back?

[Leowilde]

What exactly would be the point in all this? To waste the dev's time, SE's money, and our time? I'm sorry, but FFXIV is gone. I'm not sure why you would want to play it, since it was trashed, and then ARR was built up from it's name and here we are. Is it for the sake of nostalgia? Then, as many people love to point out in these forums, go watch it on youtube.

I don't want this game to be FFXIV or FFXI-2. So many people are after that here, and I came here to play a brand new game, and that is what FFXIV:ARR is, a new game. I don't mind if elements are added from XIV, or XI, but to make this entire game into another XI or XIV? You do know there are games that have that style of game-play still active and running, one that is still ran by SE? Right?

FFXIV:ARR isn't "broken", it's just a new generation of MMO's. If so many of you really dislike this game that much, that you want a FFXIV server to play on instead, why do you even play this? I mean if I was playing a game, and realized it wasn't what I thought it was going to be and I wasn't enjoying myself, I'd just stop playing that game. It confuses me so much to see people on here constantly saying "I hate this game, I want FFXIV back, I want old archaic game play back, I want FFXI-2". Why not give actual helpful suggestions or just stop playing something you dislike so much, instead of trying to turn back time and bringing something that failed according to SE and the fans as well.

In short no, I do not want a FFXIV server to be associated with FFXIV:ARR. I personally don't see the point in bringing a game back that simply SE doesn't want to use anymore.

Let me just point out that many of the players here, myself included, are members from XIV's original release. The game was eventually shut down to be remade, and we waited while they did so. We werent' waiting for a different game, we were waiting for the same game rebuilt. That is why many people will talk about ARR and compare it to the original, and wether one agrees with their opinions or not, I do think the comparison is both natural and entitled.

ARR is a different game only in the sense that they molded XIV in a more mainstream and shape, it is still the same logo (with the addition of "A realm reborn"), the same lore, even the same NPCs. If you pay even the least attention to the dialogue, the changes that XIV went through during the downtime are explained by NPCs, such as changes in the landscapes, the Moogles' new function as postmen etc. by blending it into the lore. Would you then claim ARR to be a brand new game? I certainly wouldn't, it really isn't. It's the same game, under a new direction of game design made by the team to make the game float. It's no wonder people compare it to the original, wether they like or dislike the changes.