Please remake 1.0 in New Game+

[Hyperia]

Nightmare!

[Maxilor]

Nightmare!

[ReynTime]

Nightmare!

Lord Yoshida said Nightmare. I have no idea what I'm talking about nor do I bother filtering out the few things that are fine from 1.0 but as a tempered being by the elder primal Yoshi-P I must just repeat Nightmare like a zombie whenever anyone makes a topic asking about anything related to 1.0.

Also I absolutely love how in these 1.0 topics people who claim to have been there keep bringing up fallacies regurgitated and repeated by people who weren't there to begin with. It's like the ET caused the video game crash of 83 all over again, but FFXIV 1.0 edition. There were a lot of things wrong with 1.0, but don't just blindly parrot Yoshida's one comment in an interview, completely out of context, or make up reasons when there are plenty legit ones to be had, and even a few things the game did better than it does now.

The reason Yoshida said it'd be a Nightmare has more to do with the fact they don't have 1.0 or even 1.23's version files and source as they used to be just lying around, the fact most of the 1.0 staff is gone which made and would make documentation a ginormous pain, all this for a version of XIV that was never going to (and wouldn't if brought back) appeal to a post WoW era player audience. And the risk of giving the wrong image for players who would go into the hypothetical classic server and judge XIV based on it instead of the newer version. There was also the concern of players who would fail to understand the circumstances would blame the dev team for the legacy bugs, performance and design problems.
Furthermore very few producers understand the appeal of game preservation. There are always some niche audience that wishes they had access to older versions of games. Offline or online. But with online games the unfortunate reality is that most of the time that's at the complete mercy of the publisher, hence why you get multiple topics like this one asking for either a "classic" server or a recreation of cutscenes or playable form of it. And it's a shame even when they have no intention of doing anything at all with it they won't even leave it to others to do the work.