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

[Jynx]

How does a director not have the ability or the power to direct the game?

This is the real world we are talking about, the director in this case was under direction from his superiors (His boss) to make the game totally different from XI. I'm paraphrasing this article you do need to read between the lines a bit but it's pretty obvious overall.

Tanaka on leaving Square Enix.

"The trigger for me thinking about leaving was getting removed from the Final Fantasy XIV project," Tanaka told Famitsu. "I helped mold Final Fantasy XI into one of the best MMO formats on the market, and I wanted to respect the wishes of the team as much as possible when they wanted to make something different with FFXIV, so I tried my best not to meddle too much with development. In the end they weren't able to realize what they were aiming for, which is a shame, but I wish them the best of luck with the reboot."

Interpret it however you like but it's pretty plain to me at least that he didn't get to turn the game into what he wanted.

[Exstal]

This is the real world we are talking about, the director in this case was under direction from his superiors (His boss) to make the game totally different from XI. I'm paraphrasing this article you do need to read between the lines a bit but it's pretty obvious overall.

Tanaka on leaving Square Enix.

Interpret it however you like but it's pretty plain to me at least that he didn't get to turn the game into what he wanted.

Which makes me somewhat believe he wanted to make it something like XI. Although, he should have just laid down the law and prevented the whole debacle in the first place (if it was released completely done).

[Rubieus]

You would have to be pretty new to gaming to even consider playing a half finished product. Seriously.

[Haibel]

Which makes me somewhat believe he wanted to make it something like XI. Although, he should have just laid down the law and prevented the whole debacle in the first place (if it was released completely done).

The problem with that was the exec's above forced him to use Crystal tools for the engine because they used it to make a CGI preview of the world.
which for the most part was scrapped. Crystal Tools was fine for a single player game which it was made for, just didn't work well at all for an MMO.

[duvvvv]

@topic yes just for the story, I didn't get to play 1.0 either but I lurked youtube and some gaming forums when the game was still up, and was seriously considering subbing for at least a month until I realized I hesitated too long :/

I do agree that even as an outsider--a mere spectator--1.0 has more FF vibe than ARR, the design aesthetics was what got me interested initially, and I hope someday we'd experience similar textures in ARR. gameplay-wise I don't think I'm patient enough for such meditated combat. I longed for my other games when I learned I couldn't double-tap dodge my way during battles, but I can adapt :3

[Kikosho]

I wouldn't play 1.0 if a server was created for it even if we assume that the most glaring gameplay issues were fixed, those being the lag in every action you performed, be it in combat, crafting, or even purchasing an item. That said, there are many aspects of 1.0 that I do miss and wish were incorporated somehow into 2.0, one of them being the vast maps of 1.0, despite it's blatant copy pasta.

You could get lost in the zones and every so often there were nifty little landmarks you could come across, several that were actually incorporated into 2.0. Being that the game was released bare, a lot of the zones had no purpose but they were still there, full of tough enemies waiting to be given a use (i.e the area around Moggle Mog's fight entrance). 2.0's maps have a lot going on, sometimes too much as it feels like you're always a stone's throw away from civilization. If SE could combine the variety of 2.0's maps with the the vastness of 1.0, I'd be happy.

I still hope that we somehow see the return of a portion of the old Black Shroud, except as an actual maze, not just copy pasta pathways going up and down.

[DefendPopPunk]

You would have to be pretty new to gaming to even consider playing a half finished product. Seriously.

Eh, I play DayZ every now and then. Yeah, it's in alpha, but still

[Dhex]

I'd play 1.19-1.23 again just to record the amazing sound Steel Cyclone made when you used it against 50+ monsters.

[Sapphic]

Having experienced 1.0 in the original beta I must answer with an emphatic "No". 1.0 beta almost made me NOT want to participate in the 2.0 beta. That is how terrible it was.

I also remember the huge list they posted in the beta forums showing a lot of content to come, which most took as would be in at release. Yet what we got at release was the same as what was beta.

Only one thing I'd like to see return from 1.0 is the graphics for the gear. No, as I call it, stairs on texture, edges were smooth as butter.

[HakuroDK]

I'd like it just so I could see what it was like.

I got to play part of the 1.0 beta years ago, but it lagged so horribly on minimum settings that I never picked it up due to it being beyond the capabilities of my gaming rig. And now that I have a good enough gaming rig to run 1.0, it would be nice to see what I missed.