The truth is we need a remastered XI or a follow up

[Ath192]

I don't think I could trust them to remake/remaster XI faithfully. In order to update a lot of it, they'd have to rebuild the entire thing from the ground up, and the inevitably means that they will change something "small" which will ripple into changing other "small" things until at last the ripple spreads so far that it's different enough that it's not XI anymore.

Plus if they remaster it, will it still include Trusts and the like? It largely relies on Trusts these days, especially considering its old and grizzled playerbase are fairly insular for multiple reasons.

Even old players returning aren't welcomed into groups with open arms, patience, and understanding. There's a lot of, "Oh, we can play together after you catch up using Trusts." Or a lot of, "You should be able to handle that by yourself."

The old, old style of XI is something of a novelty, with people clamoring for it if they can get it for free (private servers), but not a lot of retail minded folks wanting it back.

Plus they'd have to deal with modern care about botting, a lot of old players bot the shit out of shit and use LUAs. It'd kind of be a nightmare.

It's possible. But I'm mostly talking about a clean slate here. in other words, idk what would happen to XI in particular but like the VII remake this would be a new game. No character ports.

Here is what I think the great lie is:

The biggest lie is that the system and play style of old MMOs is something people don't want anymore. Imo there hasn't been a good game with the old style released in recent times to prove this though because anyone is too scared to release it. What I don't get is this: why are people scared to release something that has succeeded before?

People who enjoy fighting games aren't clamoring for a change to get rid of the complex combos and specials their characters do, likewise people who play strategy games had to ask Bill gates to re-release AOE 2 because they didn't want innovation in the style of gameplay, they wanted an update to the existing style. Seeing as AOE 2 was the pinnacle of RTS games what people wanted wasn't for the changes that followed after and killed the RTS genre.

So likewise, I believe the fans of old progression style MMOs are still out there.