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

[Cidel]

Having played through it, I can honestly say that there are only a handful of appeals to "going back," but they would extend only to:

1) one-time zone exploration compare/contrast to ARR/HW. Many areas were forgettable and empty but you see a few gems every so often where the potential was.

2) Challenging 8-man dungeons. These dungeons could wipe you if you weren't strong enough/ had a plan. and if you wanted any of the best gear at the time, you legitimately had to travel off the main path (shocking, right?) (or send 1-2 people who knew what they were doing) to grab side-chests to unlock the one chest after the boss that might have dropped the darklight. The downside is these dungeons were designed to require speedrunning if you wanted a chance at the darklight gear.

3) Hamlet Defenses. There was flaws in how it was designed to reward some Free Companies linkshells to receive the relic materials, but the actual event utilized DoL and DoH in what reminds me of a tower defense system; and there were several ways you could go about handling the assaults.

4) The beastman strongholds actually requiring a group to progress fairly deep in, not like 1-man army that we've come to enjoy.

Aside from those aspects, there was too many things that brought down the experience, especially if you're used to the mainstream systems. The animation locks on weaponskills made primals like Ifrit a little too reliant on memorizing the scripted fight (is it safe to weaponskill? No, Eruption is about to go off), the overuse of hate resets, no real market item search feature until much later (and you know how housing is limited? Imagine not being able to sell anything because retainer spots on the market were full)- Just off the top of my head.

[SaitoHikari]

Remake 1.x into a singleplayer prequel for FFXIV. SE would make tons of money by having FFXIV players buy it for the sake of experiencing the story of the 1.x series, and introducing other FF fans to the world of XIV (that would normally not bat an eye due to being put off by MMOs, and it might convince a few more people to sub).

[KisaiTenshi]

Remake 1.x into a singleplayer prequel for FFXIV. SE would make tons of money by having FFXIV players buy it for the sake of experiencing the story of the 1.x series, and introducing other FF fans to the world of XIV (that would normally not bat an eye due to being put off by MMOs, and it might convince a few more people to sub).

What they could do, more or less is re-release the 1.x game as a single solo game using a type of solo/lan-only server emulator and an AI party and some toned down difficulty. No remake necessary, though they should probably tie bits of lore forward once the current version of FFXIV covers all the areas that were actually in V1.0.

Like more or less the V1.0 storyline needs to be available, and unless SE/Yoshi-P can be convinced to reintroduce the storyline parts back in (This is a good enough reason to invoke a time travel storyline) particularly the great opening sequences and original layouts of Gridania, Ul'dah and Limsa Lominsa. Most of the world map was uninspiring due to the copy-paste nature of it. The server emulator would simply have a small control panel to turn some things on/off and run the ending that closes the game.

As for making money, no. Many of us bought V1.0 and still have the disc. What SE could realistically do is everyone that originally bought V1.0 gets a code that can be redeemed on steam to download this solo/lan-only experience + soundtrack and anyone who didn't buy V1.0 originally can buy it as a game+soundtrack package.

Also I didn't forget I already posted to this thread in 2015 and made a similar suggestion:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2993761

[Nikolas]

I'd like to see it in some form. Maybe have the Ascians mess with the timeline or something to make it happen.

[Laerune]

I would like to experience the story and maybe fool around with the features that they have there, but play it for more then a day or two, No!

[DubstepNinja]

No I wouldn't, the reason 1.0 was so great had almost nothing to do with gameplay, graphics or storyline and more to do with the intangible things like community, atmosphere and the fact the game was being destroyed and remade and the excitement around it.

The only way it would work would be to re-introduce it as a raid series in the future a "Return to Dalamund" raid or something?

But I am sure most people are tired of it really, we have moved on and newer more interesting things (invading Garlemald) will be on peoples minds rather than going back to past events.

[Dameron]

I'd like to see the story, but not so much the gameplay.

[Averax]

Story yes, abhorrent gameplay no. You can play FFXI if you want to know what the gameplay was like, and if you just want the story, Youtube is that way ->

[Theodric]

I would, yes. For all its flaws 1.0 did have some pretty great aspects to it - and there's a lot of lore related stuff that I'd like to see brought back to the forefront, particularly where the wicked aspects of the major city states are concerned.

[ReplicaX]

Story yes, abhorrent gameplay no. You can play FFXI if you want to know what the gameplay was like, and if you just want the story, Youtube is that way ->

XI gameplay is by no means comparable to 1.18+ gameplay.

No, I would not like to play 1.23b or previous versions again, already experienced all of it. As Averax said, YT has the story.