With people craving old school MMO's lately, would FF14 1.23b be so terrible?

[XtremePrime]

Nope. There's already FFXI if you want an oldschool final fantasy MMO experience.
WoW Classic and OSRS only work because there's nostalgia for those times in the game's life. I'm not sure how many people are nostalgic for 1.0 but it can't be that many, with people being hesitant to even want ARR/HW classic, let alone 1.0!

[AlucaDragonheart]

Nope. There's already FFXI if you want an oldschool final fantasy MMO experience.
WoW Classic and OSRS only work because there's nostalgia for those times in the game's life. I'm not sure how many people are nostalgic for 1.0 but it can't be that many, with people being hesitant to even want ARR/HW classic, let alone 1.0!

I'd personally love an ARR classic, going through dungeons as a PLD just flashing everything for aggro, I kind of miss that hahah

[Ath192]

Nope. There's already FFXI if you want an oldschool final fantasy MMO experience.

It's too outdated in interface and graphics terms. But heck if that got a remaster a lot of people would be all over that.

It's also not like SE doesn't know or believe in it either, after all they greenlit a mobile remake. They just need to do it inhouse or find a better team.

[Velthice]

As someone who actually played 1.x. It was not the game you're imagining. It looks like the game you know, but it played terribly. Even moving your character felt bad. Sure characters animated better, because they had animations for starting to move and coming to stop, but that animation "momentum" made your character feel like they were constantly moving through syrup with baked in input lag

It would have to be rebuilt from the ground up with more than a few changes to make it baseline playable, and if they did that people would complain that it wasn't REALLY 1.x and surely that if they got the original exactly as it was then that the experience would be improved (it wouldn't)

[Gortys]

I would maybe play it, but not sure I could last more than the 30 minutes I did when I tried it the first time.

[echo78]

I'd personally love an ARR classic, going through dungeons as a PLD just flashing everything for aggro, I kind of miss that hahah

A 2.x or 3.x server would be amazing. ARR/HW was completely different (and had better gameplay) from what FFXIV has turned into today.

[Chelsei]

Yes yes I know "Nightmare" and all that, but with people craving old school MMO's nowadays, would it be such a bad thing to release a new 1.23b server nowadays?

Nightmare is a polite name for it. Back then, when i bought that ***** ** ****** version of this game, I can't tell you how MAD I was.

So NO THANK. I want a classic server with the old battle system of ARR / HW.

[Raikai]

I've seen the gameplay of 1.0 and I'm not really interested.

The fact people are eyeing it at all speaks volumes of how bad gameplay has gotten now.

I have to agree... Seeing footage of 1.0, almost anything has the 'oomph', feels quite monotone for me.

[Shinku_Tachi]

I have to agree... Seeing footage of 1.0, almost anything has the 'oomph', feels quite monotone for me.

Aye, that's the main reason I shared the idea of just having 1.xx MSQ added to 14 to give the people the ability to experience the storyline, since it's 100% still canon.

Otherwise, it needs to be left in the past.

[Shurrikhan]

It'd still be pretty terrible, yes. Its combat was auto-attacks until you can afford the beginning of Combo 1, doing Combo 1, auto-attacking until you could afford the beginning of Combo 2, doing Combo 2, rinse and repeat for so long as you could do each combo (since each skill had its own, increasing cooldown atop the required prior auto-attacks).

It'd be like Dragoon if 75% of your kit were just the two ST combos and they were only 2-3 skills long each. We had more gameplay by level 30 of ARR than by level 50 of 1.23.

...This is coming from someone who nonetheless thought 1.x worth leveling 4 classes in, so trust me when I say that combat will not remotely be an improvement. The zones were pretty neat to explore the first time through each, and the pre-Yoshida customization even had some promise even if only terrible execution, but it was overall a clunky slog that didn't really even feel any more "soulful" than XIV today, let alone ARR/HW.