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

[Codek]

I feel like this would be equivalent to finding an old Furby in a closest and putting new batteries into it. It gives that warm feeling see an old toy come to life and remembering all the good ol' days of trying to teach it how to speak.

Then an hour 5 seconds later your yelling at it and threatening it with a shotgun for being the annoying piece of junk it really is.

[Haibel]

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.

I never seen SE post anything that resembled a list of content to be in 1.0 release during the beta. the only thing close to that was the email
we got in alpha that say there was two battle systems that we would test. we only got to test one of them because it took three tests just to get the
servers stable enough to test on, then Beta started. The only time list of content were spoken of is after 1.0's release, after Tanaka got fired and Yoshi took over.
Tanaka not talking to the English players was our biggest gripe during 1.0 alpha / beta.

[Alteiriaa]

Heck yes, I'd go back, at least to finish what story I couldn't do at the time. It depends how far back we'd be going, 1.23 was a blast, but I was playing before that so eeeh. Played even after Saves Day, but I got bummed out because nobody was on anymore, since progression wasn't saved. Gungnir was so empty and it was sad, but I still did things, right up til the last day it was up.
oooh, but that original thm though, I wouldn't mind going far enough back to fiddle with that again. I miss it so much, and I didn't even get far with it before it became baby Black Mage. *sigh*

[dreffen]

Hello everyone, just a fun question. So basically as the title asks, if square enix restarted a server of 1.0 meaning graphics and world with all the updates of 2.0 meaning only content would you go back to the world of 1.0?

Me honestly.. I would.. Just for the wide open world and beautiful graphics. No offense I love playing 2.0 don't get me wrong, it's just, watching youtube vids of 1.0 and remembering the puzzle of the black shroud and figuring out how to get to grindania for the first time, I mean 1.0 just seemed so deep.. Like mind boggling deep at times.1.0 was just so beautiful I remember watching the sunrise in thanalan it was just breathtaking, I have never seen a mmorpg look that beautiful.

Anyway it's just a fun thread please no bashing simple yes or no and why or why not.

Hahahahahaha.

[SDaemon]

Go back to the world of 1.0? Probably not even if it were free, even it being free in the past didn't entice me to stay. The game was just that bad.

[Tsuwu]

The game wasn't that bad.
I feel like internet hive mind mentality led a ton of 4chan mouthbreathers to instantly hate it without ever even playing it, and they spread their "Infinite Wisdom" just to look like they were part of the cool kids.

It had issues, yeah. No way to see gear condition, repairs were convoluted, no MP Regen, reverse-XP bonus, randomized-XP gain, slightly clunky combat system... But the fact is, it was a fun, epic, mysterious world with a uniqueness that no other game has held for me since.
I play ARR because I love it. But it's a parallel for me, not a replacement.
I'd love to be able to play 1.0 again.

Sadly, shortsighted reviewers and the hordes of MMO hoppers clamoring for how SWtOR was the future and Aion was the WoW killer spread the gospel of how terribad XIV was. Most without ever having touched it.

Pity.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Well Square did agree that the game didn't live up to expectations...

[Tupsi]

Well Square did agree that the game didn't live up to expectations...

Yeah - that's what happens when you release a game based on corporate decision to try to beat out WoW's cataclysm long before it's finished.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Yeah - that's what happens when you release a game based on corporate decision to try to beat out WoW's cataclysm long before it's finished.

I was referring to the people who claim that reviewers and fans who hated 1.0-1.23 had "no idea what they were talking about" when they gave the game negative press. "It's a beta/it's not done yet" can't be the cop out excuse every time.

[Dwill]

I was referring to the people who claim that reviewers and fans who hated 1.0-1.23 had "no idea what they were talking about" when they gave the game negative press. "It's a beta/it's not done yet" can't be the cop out excuse every time.

It can't be and I agree though for people that do not want to acknowledge reality, it is indeed an easy cop out.