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

[Driavna]

1.x was an inferior product vs ARR, even if you go the sandbox route the game offered nothing compared to Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxy Online. Why would anyone want to play it over what we have now it's beyond me.

[DaikiKiyoshi]

1.x was an inferior product vs ARR, even if you go the sandbox route the game offered nothing compared to Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxy Online. Why would anyone want to play it over what we have now it's beyond me.

Because "inferior product" is your subjective personal opinion and some of us want to try something we never got the chance to.

[NaesakiAshwell]

I'd be curious just to see the story and prequel to everything that leads into ARR. I wouldn't say no to something like they make a single-player rpg out of the 1.0 - 1.23b story-line and then that would act as a prequel to the MMO itself.

Though on a side note in that same line of thought I'd absolutely love for them to make FF 11 into a single player title once they finally shut their servers down for it.

Either way something like that would be a huge undertaking and would essentially be for all intensive purposes a remake.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

We were talking about this on our FC yesterday, we would all go back to 1.23b without hesitation, it was better than what we have now.

In what way? Combat was slow, the UI was awful. the world was bland, there were few dungeons and people would only take you if you had melded gear for speedruns for darklight gear, and the primals were few, and the lag was awful.

[Galgarion]

Hell no! I've heard the legends of the dark times....

I mean seriously, god, they literally had to burn that game out with fire. Anytime you need a crazy dragon God to erase your mistakes with fire, that's just a bad time.

Because "inferior product" is your subjective personal opinion and some of us want to try something we never got the chance to.

C'mon, there are hours of 1.x gameplay on youtube. You don't need to play something directly to know if it's bad or not. Does this seriously look fun to you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goKSqF9fldE

[Driavna]

Because "inferior product" is your subjective personal opinion and some of us want to try something we never got the chance to.

No, there a lot of ways you can measure in an objetive way the quality of a video game. Just because we can enjoy bad quality products that do not mean is good in any way.

[Myrkana]

people might say yes but once they go back to it the rose colored glasses will come off :/ Classic servers won't last long before you get bored because there will be no new content to play. You'll be playing the same content over and over and eventually get bored and leave.

[DaikiKiyoshi]

I guess there's no point in argueing with the people who hated it because if they are convinced it was bad then it must have been and anyone who doesn't agree with them must have something wrong with them. I've seen gameplay of the original game and yes it looks fun and yes I still want to be able to play it.

[NefarioCall]

I never got the same feeling in this game at any point that i got the first time i went to the Lance in 1.xx

[HPDelron]

I wasn't around then, I'd want to try it purely out of curiosity and to the see story for whatever that's worth.

Most of what I've heard tells me I probably wouldn't be a long term player of that version.