This video tells you why some people thought FFXIV 1.2. is a better MMO than 2.0

[Enla]

The thing about WoW is very few will admit the game was riddled with bugs and issues, and the community was what made it great. A community that will never come back, I doubt the classic servers will last all that long. MMO's that never get content may as well be dead.

Oh definitely. It's a gimmick and one that has no staying power. However at least with WoW they had the unofficial, private vanilla server and the outrage generated by it's closing to propel them into making it a reality. There was enough demand there to warrant even just one server being made, even if only for a short enough amount of time to make back the money needed to make it happen. With FFXIV 1.0 there's just nothing... Not even good positive feelings from the general community to hook potential newcomers to pop in and see what all the fuss was about.

[Penthea]

The thing about WoW is very few will admit the game was riddled with bugs and issues, and the community was what made it great. A community that will never come back, I doubt the classic servers will last all that long. MMO's that never get content may as well be dead.

I played Vanilla WoW and I don't share the "it was so much better back then" sentiment.

Some things were better but the game as a whole was not. Even back then, before I was very familiar with mmos, I felt some things were missing or not done correctly.

I'll be shocked if the Classic servers stand the test of time. Vanilla severely lacked content. It was literally get to max lvl, maybe do some pvp, and maybe raid. I really wonder what players are going to do when they have exhausted all the vanilla content. Will they demand the servers be updated with the expansion released after vanilla?

I also wonder how they're going to deal without having QoL that we take for granted now. There was no transmog (glam) until several expansions after vanilla. Your pets and mounts took up inventory space so you could only have a handful at most. Hunters lost a bag slot due to needing to use a quiver, and they had to buy ammo daily. You could only have one class specialisation active at a time, resetting the points cost a lot of gold. There were very few teleports in the game so unless you were a mage, getting around could take up a lot of time. There was no duty finder tool, so getting a group for a dungeon could take over an hour, and getting to the dungeon could be an extra 20 minutes. I could go on for ages like this.

Oh definitely. It's a gimmick and one that has no staying power. However at least with WoW they had the unofficial, private vanilla server and the outrage generated by it's closing to propel them into making it a reality.

The thing with private servers is they're often not a true incarnation of the classic game. They frequently add things like xp buffs, different class balance to the original game, or add the missing QoL like I mentioned above. People who played on the private servers won't be playing the same game as Blizzard's official classic version.

And yea it is a gimmick.

[Enla]

The thing with private servers is they're often not a true incarnation of the classic game. They frequently add things like xp buffs, different class balance to the original game, or add the missing QoL like I mentioned above. People who played on the private servers won't be playing the same game as Blizzard's official classic version.

And yea it is a gimmick.

Not even remotely disagreeing. Even with all those things in place however, to Blizzard all that matters is that a good number of people were using the private vanilla server. Which showed interest in potentially making their own, sans the actual reasons why people preferred the private server in the first place. It makes sense for a company to try and cash in on that while they can, even as they misunderstand why people liked it in the first place.

[Penthea]

Not even remotely disagreeing. Even with all those things in place however, to Blizzard all that matters is that a good number of people were using the private vanilla server. Which showed interest in potentially making their own, sans the actual reasons why people preferred the private server in the first place. It makes sense for a company to try and cash in on that while they can, even as they misunderstand why people liked it in the first place.

Oh yea I completely agree, I'm just saying that Blizzard's version of classic servers is going to be different to those unofficial ones. They're not going to put in all the extra goodies you usually find on private servers. Some players are going to be disappointed when they find this out. I look forward to seeing people getting a harsh reality check on what playing classic truly means. Assuming Blizzard are faithful to it, of course.