Quote Originally Posted by Iromi View Post
why can't we have it? Because lot of people love to bash on 1.x and its uniqueness, despite not playing it at all. I've been saying since ARR launched how much I miss 1.23, and even more so my friends and the wonderful community and people who played.

1.x could def have used fixes, if we had gotten an upgraded/fixed 1.23 like it seemed we were getting, I think the game would be incredibly popular and more well off than it is. :/
The reason they rebooted the game is because 1.0 could not have recovered, period. It could have garnered a small niche audience after they fixed it, but nothing major such as FFXIV or WoW numbers which is what they're striving for. Look at other examples, ESO launched a horrid mess and now it's rid of its subscription fee and they fixed a lot of the major issues, all around improving the game, yet, it still has an extremely negative stigma attached to it. The same would have happened with 1.0, along with core issues that could not have been fixed no matter how much time they invested, such as the awful engine they used for an MMO, the server issues with how it was programmed, etc. They couldn't have just remade 1.x as SE didn't even have the money, the reported cost to make that game was 400 million USD, and it was unfinished at that.

In the end, they opted for the smart option of playing it safe with ARR and replicating what made WoW successful. What they're failing is moving out of that cycle, they've established an audience, they can take risks now, which was promised pre-3.0.