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

[Altera]

I would play it again for old nostalgia sake, but I prefer the ARR version now.
But having played XIV since patch 1.15, I do have many fond memories even though the state of the game wasnt great, as the people I met there was so much fun that it made up for lacking content hehe.

It had more heart and soul than WOW even

[Peachy]

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.

Who does it for the achievements? Its just showing you didnt kill any primals, didnt do any hamlet, rivenroad etc etc. basically all of the difficult content, but you claimed it was incredibly easy lol. You just sound bitter about it.

If you did it just to buy legacy status fine, then why comment on others who would like to experience it? There was a lot of fun and challenging content even if you chose to ignore it.

[Iromi]

Yes I would. I enjoyed the battle system way more and everything. I remember back then ALL my friends were playing. When they tried 2.0...when 2.1 and 2.2 hit they were all gone, along with all my 1.0 friends :/

[Gyson]

No, it was a terrible abomination and it's good that it's gone and dead.

There is a private server out there if you insist on self-harming.

You all need to stop parrotting the same nonsense over and over. It's not cool anymore to say how bad 1.0 was.

We get it. You didn't like the game. Please find something constructive to say.

To be fair, there was a similar debate back when the original game was still in beta.. one side arguing how bad it was, and how desperately it needed to change, the other criticizing those who disliked it and claiming everything was lovely.

And then the game bombed. It's not always the people criticizing a game who end up doing the most harm.

[Twilite]

Aside from being able to play it seperately, I'd like to see something like an "echo" effect that would let us go back and experience the storyline from 1.0. maybe talk to the wandering minstrel to flashback to it with our characters or something, wouldn't have to have any of the old rewards in it or anything, just purely for lore/experience purposes

I actually want the wandering minstrel to allow for a lot of flashbacks even for the current game.

[Clavaat]

If you did it just to buy legacy status fine, then why comment on others who would like to experience it?

You did not read the OP, or you did not understand the OP. My comment was answering the question, "Would you play this?" Instead of just saying, "No," I gave my reasons as to why. Those reasons obviously were not good enough for you, so you responded to exactly one of those reasons. And yet for the 2nd time you ignore the other reasons. Either way, you're the one off topic. I'm the one trying to explain why I would not play the game, and giving accurate information as to why or why not. Do you understand the difference?

[Seig345]

Would I visit for the fun of seeing the old game engine again? Sure. But would I actually play? Not likely... While I miss the solid canopy that was the namesake of the Black Shroud, I don't miss the copy/paste landscape beneath it. (Still hoping that maybe a few expansions down the road, they allow for Eorzea to "heal" a bit further from the calamity and give the Black Shroud its shroud back.)

[Gemma]

Snip.

The way you word your "argument" makes absolutely no sense. You claim it was easy and you cleared "almost" all the content but yet your Lodestone history shows you didn't DO anything. Yet here you are raging about how horrible it was yet you didn't even do anything in the game other then pay to have your pretty tattoo, discount, and chocobo >_>

How do you know the story was bland, you didn't do it.
How do you know the content was weak, you never even did it.
How do you know it wasn't difficult, again you didn't DO anything.
And the Market Ward sucked for the beginning of 1.0 and then they changed it so its not far off from what we have now.

I however played from beginning to end. And while it definitely had its flaws it also had its charms.
The story was done very well and made me attached to all the main characters including my own.
The combat in the end (1.23) was a lot of fun & not broken.
Hell even the community was more helpful and tight nit compared to how it is now.

So you can trash 1.0 all you want but at the end of the day you don't know what you're talking about cause you never tried to actually experience it, so I take what you have to say about it with a grain of salt.

Back on topic though: I have always thought since 1.0 was taken down that it would be cool if they released it as a single player or co-op game where people who weren't there (or people who want to redo it) could go back and experience it.
Always kind of regretted not going back and recording all my storyline with my character

[Spy]

If the game was the same as it's last patch and worked from there, actually...I would. There are times I miss 1.0. I love 2.0, and greatly look forward to 3.0, but I did enjoy my time in the latter half of 1.0. (I have been a part of this game since 1.0 first launched,) and although the launch itself was a disappointment that caused me to take a few months hiatus from the game, I came back a few months prior to SambonZ's Distant World creation video that ultimately led me to be a part of one of the best communities I could have found, that not only renewed my love of the game, but reminded me why I love MMO's.

[Zenaku]

They could always have a expansion where we go back in time to see 1.0. Not sure how that going to work seeing how it be all copy/paste area so it cant be 100% 1.0 even tho the game look nice the area was really copy/paste everywhere.