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

[Clavaat]

Umm, the lodestone is calling you a liar. You have barely finished any of the difficult content 1.0 had to offer. ARR is way easier on average content. Not even a hamlet run?

Because I didn't give a shit about achievements, I didn't do, as I said, almost all of the content? And, again, within 2-3 months. I played only to get the Legacy status, and was able to clear that much, pretty much solo. And way to ignore the rest of the post, because you can't actually defend against it. The game had very few redeeming qualities, broken mechanics (again, look at WAR), a bland story, weak content, severe lack of difficulty, and the worst auction house system ever invented. But it had achievements with arbitrary numbers so I guess there was stuff to do. Right.

[BobbinT]

I did make an effort of logging in almost every day. I think it's kinda inevitable anyways that the server going down.

I miss my old Gridania, unlike current ARR's. Like I said over and over, it felt like a park rather than 1.0 forest like.

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

I still do.

[Kathryn]

Tbh I would love to go back to 1.0 and finish my story as my character is feeling a little unfinished from that era, sadly during the 1.0 ups and downs I was battling cancer so gaming was far from my mind.

But yes there are a few features I do miss from 1.0 and I would love to see them once more: Huge Landscapes, Cross class skills and the absolutely beautiful long walks/rides from city to city, kinda makes me sad everywhere is so instanced and small but don't get me wrong I do enjoy 2.0.

[Fantasy9]

I did make an effort of logging in almost every day. I think it's kinda inevitable anyways that the server going down.

I miss my old Gridania, unlike current ARR's. Like I said over and over, it felt like a park rather than 1.0 forest like.

Remember running through black shroud and encountering lvl 60 enemies? Oh the fun times.

[BobbinT]

Remember running through black shroud and encountering lvl 60 enemies? Oh the fun times.

Hehe that was actually thrilling. trying to tag that lone sub aether surrounded by level 99 mobs, and some of them are true sight/smell aggro. We do nekkid WHM just for the heck of it. XD

And every time someone forget switching to walk mode getting to King Mog battle entrance, we wipe and we laugh. XD

[Kaisha]

I'd likely play it long enough to experience the original story, and then drop it and never look back...

This. Although I'd have liked to try the earlier 1.X balancing given the classes got an overhaul at one point to my recollection after YoshiP took over to simplify their skill list.

It won't happen though due to operating costs involved and having to maintenance ancient server code. Probably some licensing stuff involved that would prevent them from releasing the source 'as is' for community use also.

[Malzian]

I played the original, so to sum it up in a word... No.

To expand on that a bit... Oh hell no.

[Sub-Xero]

Today I come to pose a question I'm not sure has been discussed here before.

So here's my question:

If Square made it possible to play FF XIV on it's 1.23b version... would you play it?

Search is garbage here so I don't blame you but this has been brought up many, MANY times.

[Terrini]

I would like to be able to see it, having a Dynamis-esque echo to return to it might be awesome, but the game as it existed ?? Probably not... It sounded like you still required other people to adventure at all or to make any significant progress. that's why I never got far in xi. If they made it a self-contained game you could play alone. I'd try that! I'd love to be able to experience the beauty of it, but I've hear it was pretty rough for gameplay...

[Kathryn]

I would like to be able to see it, having a Dynamis-esque echo to return to it might be awesome, but the game as it existed ?? Probably not... It sounded like you still required other people to adventure at all or to make any significant progress. that's why I never got far in xi. If they made it a self-contained game you could play alone. I'd try that! I'd love to be able to experience the beauty of it, but I've hear it was pretty rough for gameplay...

Yeah some of the quests could be fairly brutal, and I was a BLM in full AF in 1.0 and I got slaughtered a lot, it was fun.