Final Fantasy XIV 1.23b - Would you Play it if Available?

[Dijana]

If it were exactly as the game was then....no. I enjoyed it yes, there were features from it I miss, but despite what people claim about how great it was, there's a reason it had to constantly extend its f2p status and in the end be taken down and rebuilt. If nothing else, just the copy/paste zones are enough to drive me away.

[Amatsuhira]

I'd like to merge the current combat system and ui to the old version. IMO weapon and gear choices and skill choices were better in 1.0.

[Enkidoh]

If it were exactly as the game was then....no. I enjoyed it yes, there were features from it I miss, but despite what people claim about how great it was, there's a reason it had to constantly extend its f2p status and in the end be taken down and rebuilt. If nothing else, just the copy/paste zones are enough to drive me away.

^This. There were things in 1.0 that I did love and wish were implemented into ARR, but as it stands, even despite Yoshi's valiant tinkering with it, 1.23 may have been a good game with potential, it was still too little too late, the game was still fundamentally broken in pretty much every way, and thus the game thoroughly deserved it's bullet behind the ear.

And before you pass judgement, SE actually gave players a chance to have 1.23 retained in operation 'indefinitely' as a side game to ARR - dependent on logins though. Naturally, this failed after not even a month (I remember logging in and literally being the only person on my server). So that proved to SE once and for all, 1.0 was a lost cause. Accordingly, players had their chance to bring the game back and wasted it. In SE's eyes, there just isn't any point to reviving 1.0 because of this.

[Fantasy9]

And before you pass judgement, SE actually gave players a chance to have 1.23 retained in operation 'indefinitely' as a side game to ARR - dependent on logins though. Naturally, this failed after not even a month (I remember logging in and literally being the only person on my server). So that proved to SE once and for all, 1.0 was a lost cause. Accordingly, players had their chance to bring the game back and wasted it. In SE's eyes, there just isn't any point to reviving 1.0 because of this.

It failed because progress was not saved. Would you play a game that there was no way to save your progress?