Would you support a Final Fantasy XIV "Classic" option like WoW with 1.0?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

No. There's nothing "good" about 1.0 to bring it back, that would draw people like wow classic. The server would be dead in a month.


The devs gave people a chance to keep them running back in 2012. It lasted a month because people stopped playing.

[znushu]

1.0 is widely considered to be a hot mess and the development team appear eager to wash their hands of pretty much everything that ties back to those days.

yeah but the thing is that even if they wish to wash their hands of those days they can't since it's ingrained in the foundation for this product where many areas still have remnants of those days even today. there's also the few that unironically liked 1.0 which while I don't agree with their tastes I do think they should be granted the version they liked as well. I mean if FF11 is still up despite ff14 existing, I fail to see why the original version of the product (which I admittedly hated) shouldn't exist neither.

I dunno, I mean it kinda feels like to me the team is purposely ignoring those that unironically liked 1.0. in some degree. personally, I really don't see the issue despite some technical issues.

[Stepjam]

Nope. Even Yoshi P has said this in interviews multiple times. I find it insulting to the people that played from 1.0 up to 2.0 that stayed with the MMO unlike myself who dealt with a truly terribly designed MMO.

I'm confused, are you trying to imply that 1.0 was better than what we have now?

[ElciaDeiLinus]

I'd be curious to see the story at least- if they could condense it into some sort of NG+ style thing I think that'd be great.

I dunno if a full blown classic would even be possible at this point, and I doubt it'd get much interest. Keep in mind a lot of the interest for WoW classic/TBC/WotLK stems from those being when WoW had millions of players and was growing up until it crashed in Cata- FFXIV 1.0 was the opposite, its players shrunk and shrunk until the game died. Very different situations.

Another thing is- WoW constantly removes and revamps massive chunks of the game- you can't even do vanilla content in retail, and everything before Shadowlands is utterly trivial in all ways. FFXIV keeps and builds on the story/dungeons/etc..., you can always do an of level old raid here, the story's always there and relevant- there are changes to classes but its not like WoW where a class in classic is unrecognizable to it in retail (just look at survival hunters- the classic, Cata and WoD versions are utterly different- then the Legion onward it's not even ranged dps it's a melee class).

[SilverObi]

I went ahead and hit Maybe on the strawpoll because I'd be interested in a 1.0 server but only if it was 1.2+ after they made it into an actual game, albeit one deeply flawed at its root. There are a lot of good concepts that existed in 1.0 and yeah YMMV but I'm still wistful for some of the things they threw out in the transition such as Hamlet Defense, the combat system, movement animations, actual danger in the overworld, open world dungeons, and the custom class system (though that's probably more pre-1.2 if I think about it).

Could those systems work in modern XIV? I'd argue yes with some tweaks and caveats but as stated in this thread already, the devs seem extremely hesitant to even entertain the idea which kinda smacks of Blizzard's "you think you want it, but you don't".

It would be a nice trip down memory lane though to walk through the old maps (flying over the Footfalls in Western Thanalan gives me vivid memories of actually walking up there and looking down before they changed the maps) and to soak in the lore and even see what parts of the tale got retconned or altered for 2.0 onward.

I don't know the technical hurdles that probably exist, but I can't imagine it's on the same scale as FFXI's dev team not keeping snapshots or previous version data archived and thus making it impossible for FFXI Classic. But I guess the devs here also might've just gone and said burn it all down and dumpstered anything serviceable for a 1.0 server.

[van_arn]

I'd love to see a 1.0 classic just so I can finally convince people it was hot garbage. 1.2 was less bad, but it was still awful compared to its competition.

[Jin-]

I would like unpruned classes back

[Conundrum]

I asked for some way to replay 1.0 - 1.23b and we'll just say...I'm still trying to remove the tar and feathers for even asking.

[Conundrum]

As Yoshi-P said when asked about a 1.x server "Nightmare!"

Game devs in general often say something is impossible. But eventually it happens, basically it's possible until it isnt.

[Izar_Chillen]

If it were made with the current visual quality, ui, and combat style reborn has I would be interested . Part of the reason I wasnt interested in ff14 from its reveal was the slow playstyle and visuals . It looked like ff11 part 2 and for me that was very off putting