DT worse then 1.0

[koko-on-da-forumz]

It's a waste of money, and no one in 2024 wants that kind of experience.

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FFXI is still active, both on private servers and retail. The market for a game in that fashion isn't going to do gangbusters, but it would certainly be a cult hit.

[Striker44]

I recall a certain Dev of another very popular MMO saying the exact same thing about the Vanilla version of their MMO.

And when they finally did release "Classic," it wasn't their 1.0, but the end-patch version, and didn't those servers then start re-progressing through the different expansions? There also wasn't such a core design shift in WoW that would compare to 1.0 vs. 2.0 in FFXIV.

[Crimen]

As someone who actually played from 1.0's launch to now... no it is not. I get it. DT at launch has been mid, but it's not the worst thing written in history. Stop exaggerating to order to continue to feed into the hatred. Dawntrail's story felt like it was written by inexperienced people. It feels as superficial and repetitive as ARR did. That's my opinion on it.

[Alchemii]

WoW vanilla was a GOOD game even in 2004, A game played from milions of players and with high quality content. I played it at the release and I don't regret it.
On the other hand 1.0 was not. They cannot recycle assets: the zones were EMPTY, and the story was "a quest every 5 levels" and even these small quests were generic.
What are they supposed to do, create a 25 min walking green lawn and say "this is the old zone around limsa Lominsa".

Leave 1.0 in the mist of the time, there is nothing to salvage, not even for nostalgia.

There's plenty to salvage from it. They can actually put stuff in the zones, the MSQ doesn't have to keep the 5 level restrictions anymore and can be condensed so that they aren't filler so long as the story still connects and makes sense, and some of these zones are currently blocked off in the game. Working on them for the living memory means we could regain access to them in the main world where they could actually develop them and make use of them.

Limsa is a prime example, develop some of those areas into a Separate Pirate city, one not under the control of the Admiral, but instead a Lawless location. Same with Gridania make it like a gathering place for Poachers and Bandits.

With this idea we wouldn't even have to isolate ourselves to those areas either, we could travel to Ishgard or Garlemald and see the areas before all the snow and ice. Before the destruction.

[Fawkes]

Here's a 7 hour video if you want to judge for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vja5eQoJDso



Did you know Y'shtola used to be Neo from The Matrix?

[Alchemii]

And when they finally did release "Classic," it wasn't their 1.0, but the end-patch version, and didn't those servers then start re-progressing through the different expansions? There also wasn't such a core design shift in WoW that would compare to 1.0 vs. 2.0 in FFXIV.

Sorry I didn't see your message. x.x
I actually don't remember what the final 1.x patch was. I thought we were just generally referring to the whole thing as 1.0. As for the Classic situation, they started releasing Servers for their pervious expansion, however they actually did keep the classic servers around last I checked. I'm at work so I can't confirm that, but I recall they were still up. They also went and released the Hardcore Classic servers which are an Ironman version of Classic, and Season of Discovery Servers which are Classic+ Servers where they added in some more experimental stuff to Classic.

Here's a 7 hour video if you want to judge for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vja5eQoJDso



Did you know Y'shtola used to be Neo from The Matrix?

Naw that's not her being Neo, that's just Physics. Everyone knows bullets can't touch Waifu material instead they bend around the Waifu as to not harm her, it's science and stuff.

[ApolloGenX]

1.0 felt like FFXI, except broken.

[EdwinChucklenuts]

I hope everyone making those doomer posts realize this is how ridiculous they look lol

[Alchemii]

1.0 felt like FFXI, except broken.

So we just make the re-release feel like a not broken FFXI. I might be a bit bias as I like FFXI though. XD

[ApolloGenX]

So we just make the re-release feel like a not broken FFXI. I might be a bit bias as I like FFXI though. XD

Oh, FFXI was fun....thus the broken part.

Slow UI like FFXIV, but it didn't work well and targeting was awful...just bad. I played XI, but 1.o was imo unplayable.