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

[Altera]

Considering majority of content atm now is either Eureka or PVP, I would gladly go back to 1.0. I started playing XIV in 1.15b and i remember having more fun with the community and game than current state sadly-

If Eureka will continue into the next Expansion, I am considering for the first time since July 2011 to cancel my subscription.

[Haxaan]

Considering majority of content atm now is either Eureka or PVP, I would gladly go back to 1.0. I started playing XIV in 1.15b and i remember having more fun with the community and game than current state sadly-

If Eureka will continue into the next Expansion, I am considering for the first time since July 2011 to cancel my subscription.

I highly doubt Eureka will be in the next expansion. Each expansion they try to add a new and different type of content. Eureka just happened to be the content for this expansion, Diadem was from Heavenward. We will most likely get some new type of experimental content in the next expansion. I feel like so many people are mad because the Relic and unique items are locked behind Eureka, which is optional content. There are plenty of other things to do in the game aside from Eureka. But I digress.

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I would love to be able to get my cutscenes from 1.0 back. It would be cool to have a "flashback" and be able to roam the old landscapes. I loved 1.23 for what it was, and miss the open world aspects of it a lot. I do agree that the game we have now can feel a bit like waiting in line for an amusement park (depending on your role) but 2.0+ is a much better game in execution. I do miss 1.23 for various reasons and hope that Yoshi and the team will try to take some more of the good things from 1.23 and incorporate them into the game moving forward, but we'll see.

[azura84]

Let me look into my crystal ball. WoW is singlehandedly the most successful MMORPG ever created, and may very well be the most successful video ever created. Yoshi said WoW was the basis for XIV and in era in which they are plenty of F2P games, it's done well for a subscription service.

So, yes, copying WoW is the answer.

Also, in terms of looking at what came before, Square literally runs a first generation MMO. XI is still running and doing well, but it's not exactly breaking subscription numbers.

The point of looking back isn't to copy the progression system of XI, it's to copy the designs of the content they created. WoW was good, but it has been as or more stagnant since Cataclysm and It doesn't even come close to being as continuously successful as Grand Theft Auto Online or GTAV ["The $6 billion revenues, for example, is far past the $4 billion achieved by best-selling films such as Star Wars and Gone With The Wind (adjusted for inflation, and adding DVD sales to the $3 billion box office receipts). With 90 Million copies sold world wide."]. And people continue to think WoW is somewhere above XIV when it isn't. They both average around 500k-650k active characters per month and WoW did okay overseas but nothing like XIV has done, WoW is a western MMO and has catered to the market and cultural behaviors of NA mostly. No it is not the only avenue to take, it just happened to be the biggest because nothing compared to it, now we have two stagnant vertically progressed mmorpgs competing over the same crown with the same hamster wheels.

[Coombah]

Considering majority of content atm now is either Eureka or PVP, I would gladly go back to 1.0. I started playing XIV in 1.15b and i remember having more fun with the community and game than current state sadly-

If Eureka will continue into the next Expansion, I am considering for the first time since July 2011 to cancel my subscription.

Sadly I feel the same way and am considering doing the same.

[Shurrikhan]

Considering majority of content atm now is either Eureka or PVP, I would gladly go back to 1.0. I started playing XIV in 1.15b and i remember having more fun with the community and game than current state sadly-

If Eureka will continue into the next Expansion, I am considering for the first time since July 2011 to cancel my subscription.

While I'm not about to say that a underfunded and comparatively infantile (yet to be well polished or iterated upon) game like 1.15b was better, in virtually any way, than the current game, I have to admit that it did feel a lot more compelling back then to just log on, do whatever I want for as long as I want, and log off when I want. It felt damn near cathartic most days. And of course, that's always more true of a game in which you still have things to level than not (I only had a few jobs at level cap, and a few more half way or higher), a lot of that does come down to what 1.15b had... or avoided having.

Oddly enough, the closest I get to that kind of catharsis now--which used to come from gathering in the Shroud on stormy nights, grinding mobs, party-dungeoning, or just about anything else--I can only get from tryharding normal content for shits-and-giggles. Very rarely it can come from soloing FATEs when leveling, too, but that's been rendered so obsolete it's not even funny.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

There was a reason SE, deleted the game and fired the staff. Let sleeping dogs lie.

[Fayt1203]

There was a reason SE, deleted the game and fired the staff. Let sleeping dogs lie.

they did not fire all the staff and did not delete the game. to do things faster they used a lot of codes from the old ffxiv when they were making Realm reborn.

[Fawkes]

the butt thing from 1.0 is overblown by one screenshot where characters are in different poses at different angles. At this point, its a joke that 1.0 had bigger butts.

I'm sure you can still find the 1.0 benchmark somewhere. That shows the butts were flat there too.