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

[Elladie]

I played 1.0 from launch. It was ... Very pretty ... Til you realised the rock next to you was the same rock you'd just seen a few minutes ago. And then you realised the combat was HORRIBAD. I was a healer; for the first few weeks I didn't get XP fighting mobs with my friends because I was healing peeps and not doing any damage ... So I quit after about a month. Played WoW some (not enamoured); went back to FFXIV to try out Abyssea.

Came back to XIV when I heard about Yoshida taking over and the possibility of Legacy status for ARR. And I found I loved 1.23. Kept me well and truly hooked til the servers went down. Met a bunch of great people and had a blast. Ifrit, Rivenroad, Garuda. Ohhh the achievement when we beat her the first time! And we rotated our teams and got all the LS thru it.

And that's what I really miss about 1.23 onwards and dislike about ARR. Our FC used to be a team, and a pretty big team; now it's a collection of separate little cliques that barely do anything together. Coil lockouts - amongst other things (yes, you, Duty Finder!) - have destroyed most of our sense of being a small, close knit community. I appreciate that Duty Finder gets the job done; less time spent standing around waiting for people to do stuff (though if you had a great LS, as I luckily did back then, this wasn't a problem; we'd schedule runs getting everyone's final job quests done, for example). But you barely need to interact with anyone on your server; endgame penalises you if you try to include a wider pool of players in your team; and the community becomes ever more toxic.

Don't get me wrong, I love ARR and I'm really hyped for Heavensward. Just feel they threw the baby out with the bath water when they were working on 2.0. I wouldn't go back and play it, no, but I do wish this game had kept more of elements that created that strong knit community where your reputation on your server mattered

[Almalexia]

I liked 1.23.
I like ARR.

But I have a rule where I don't play more than one MMO at a time, so the answer is no.

[MageBlack]

I liked what they had done by 1.23b but the world still felt very empty and barren. Very little to do, poor UI, poor grouping, and many other things that just didnt work. The only thing it really had going for it was, Higher textured graphics (that some people just cant seem to get past) and had developed into a decent battle system. Loved the combos and skill chain-ish system.

To go back to that? My answer is no.

To take the things i mentioned that actually worked and then build a world around it like we have with ARR, I might enjoy that. At this point though, I'm not willing to scrap ARR to make it happen, I dont think it would survive well right now as its own MMO, (not with a team split between two games), at best it would be nice to see FFXI evolve into 1.23b. Come out with a direct sequal of sorts that you can carry over your character, etc. But that is something I would never expect to actually see.

[Calypsx]

I would love to be able to play it again.

[Vespar]

at best it would be nice to see FFXI evolve into 1.23b. Come out with a direct sequal of sorts that you can carry over your character, etc. But that is something I would never expect to actually see.

Yeah, I think during XI's event a few months ago, people were expecting to see something similar to this, or atleast an update to the UI they had mentioned they were working on... But alas, what they got was no where near as cool. But hey! Go mobile..
(sick of mobile games destroying the market, imo. I'm not a mobile gamer at all so Im starting to think one day I may no longer get to be a gamer -_-)

[DoctorPepper]

Personally I would not play it again even if it were free to play. It had its pros but way more cons in my opinion. I paid enough to get legacy status and don't regret that decision but that's about as far as I'd go.

If there were an up to date version of XI I would definitely pay to play that however. I love XIV but have to say XI was one of my favorite games of all time back in the day.

[TheRogueX]

I've said it before: I'd play it. I think it would be a lot of fun. They could just have a single server and set up some shop NPCs for difficult items necessary for some stuff. Perhaps increase the XP rate a little bit, tone down some of the fight difficulties. I think it would be awesome to experience some of the old stuff.

[Xatsh]

If they did a RR treatment content wise I would play it in a heart beat.

At the end of 1.x era the only problem was the garbage copy/paste world design and sever lack of content.

IF they fixed the world and added the amount of content we have now in ARR and kept the other elements of 1.x which were not broken, in my opinion it would be 10xs the game we have now.

Not a fan of WoW style themeparks honestly, in my opinion XI was over all a much much better game then WoW ever was. This is the best WoW style themepark that is not wow out there, but it is still World of Final Fantasy at the end of the day. If you take away the story and World design and just look at the elements that make up the core game, it is more or less WoW.

[Zhane]

Simple answer: No.

[Miya_Carbuncle]

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

Oh gosh, I want something like this so badly! I feel like I've missed out on so much lore-wise.