Suggestion: a single player game called FFXIV: Legacy

[ChiiSoSeriouz]

The achievement for completing the dalamud story line is literally called Once in a Lifetime. Knowing they were going to take the servers down for a year and remake the game as the meteor approached hydaelyn. That experience is gone forever sadly.

[Laerune]

I dont think they can bring back the combat etc, but why not let them add in a Special Dungeon where the player uses the echo to play the 1.0-2.0 Story? I remember in the past WoW used to have this series of dungeons where you go back in the past to witiness events that happend in the past.

Maybe this could be added to the game?

[Riardon]

Stop trying to bring back the dead. Halloween has passed.

[Dzian]

Before you pass judgement, SE themselves even trialled a 'restored' 1.0 service running concurrent with ARR after the original shutdown in the last few months of 2012, it was fully dependent on player numbers, which, sadly due to the ARR Alpha Test running at that time.... barely saw any use at all, and SE terminated it for good on December 31st 2012. Which is a shame, as Yoshi himself said that the game could continue "more or less indefinitely" if there was enough interest. Player numbers in that brief time though... saw to it otherwise. And I'm pretty sure this has dissuaded SE from any further attempts to restore 1.0 in any form sadly.

The main reason for that was as soon as the "Final Save" was done players saw no point in continuing to play. Anything they did after that point would not carry into arr and thus there was no reason to play it.

[TiaHariberux3]

1.0 was bad so my answer is no if u want to play 1.0 go ahead you can play it still you just have to use google.

[noctis_lucis]

would be nice to get something like a 4 player arpg like monster hunter set in eorzea

[Daenerys_Sedai]

go run around in an endless circle in the black shroud without changing zones. that should give you a feel for some of the atrocities that were 1.0; I had built a computer just to play FFXIV so fortunately, I didn't have to deal with some of the stuff other folk did.. but I can only imagine what that was like

[Pintsized]

It's amusing how many people who weren't there say this. Meanwhile, those of us who were there are all like

As one of those who's played this game since V1 closed beta there are aspects of V1 I've missed, some things were superior in V1 such as an almost entirely 'zone load screen'-free world, I always thought the whines about 'cut/paste world building' were silly the ARR zones are claustrophobic in comparison. I miss the REAL ferry.

I miss the settlement invasions (I forget what they were called), I miss being able to level up without having to go through forced-group gating, etc. etc.

[JunseiKei]

would be nice to get something like a 4 player arpg like monster hunter set in eorzea

So, you mean... FFXV? :V (A more simplified MH granted.)

[NolLacnala]

As one of those who's played this game since V1 closed beta there are aspects of V1 I've missed, some things were superior in V1 such as an almost entirely 'zone load screen'-free world, I always thought the whines about 'cut/paste world building' were silly the ARR zones are claustrophobic in comparison. I miss the REAL ferry.

I miss the settlement invasions (I forget what they were called), I miss being able to level up without having to go through forced-group gating, etc. etc.

For every good component I would love to have here, there were a dozen game breaking and infuriating ones. I feel the same way with XI...