FFXIV: A Classic Experience

[Tsumdere]

While I have quite a bit of nostalgia for HW SMN/DRK, I could never go back to the way the game was then.

Swapping skill points between SMN and SCH every time.
Waiting for CDs between wipes.
Cleric stance.
Missing some of my favorite glams and only having the one single coat I used for 4 years straight.

I'll pass. Perhaps maybe if the game goes the path of WoW where the current game is a shadow of it's former self, I would reconsider.

[Feronar]

WoW classic worked well because the original vanilla WoW was very well received and was a very good game for its time. That is most certainly NOT the case with FFXIV 1.x. There's a reason SE completely deleted and remade the game. Pretty much the only reason for FFXIV 1.x servers to exist nowadays would be morbid curiosity. And that is nowhere near sufficient cause to justify the cost of setting up and running the 1.x servers.

[DrWho2010]

I believe Yoshi-p said somewhere at some point that some of the old 1.0 servers are what they use to run the Lodestone webpages now.

[Calevr]

Oh wow guys. You keep talking about v1.0.it was a mess. Leave it at that

[Calevr]

Also, try not to think about reversing the changes made to class balance ect. It's not the point. This was supposed to be a creative ideas post for a different style of FFXIV, not that it needs it but an alternative version. WoW didn't need a classic version but they have done this. I know some people would like their experience of a classic server for that game made better than what it was previously. Could what we already have in FFXIV offer a different flavour. Maybe one that has players engaged more in the open world than it is currently? That's my opinion. Maybe some fixes to the existing game could fix all my issues, but some would complain that if more people were lured to doing open world content, it would negatively effect queues in dungeons.

A roll back to v1.0 would fail but I wouldn't mind taking some of 1.23 elements from it.

[Luluna]

Also, try not to think about reversing the changes made to class balance ect. It's not the point. This was supposed to be a creative ideas post for a different style of FFXIV, not that it needs it but an alternative version. WoW didn't need a classic version but they have done this. I know some people would like their experience of a classic server for that game made better than what it was previously. Could what we already have in FFXIV offer a different flavour. Maybe one that has players engaged more in the open world than it is currently? That's my opinion. Maybe some fixes to the existing game could fix all my issues, but some would complain that if more people were lured to doing open world content, it would negatively effect queues in dungeons.

A roll back to v1.0 would fail but I wouldn't mind taking some of 1.23 elements from it.

I agree ^^ 1.23 for me was the best time, the game started to feel better more stable and I will always have lovely memories. I miss the world feeling alive and my path companion and the groups of people in a party out in the world. I miss the old Coerthas and my characters voice and my old friends whom I ventured with so long ago. I miss the community and NM fights.

1.0 gets a lot of bad press it was very flawed I know I was there from the very first day. But it had a lot going for it. It has gone now and it would never be the same.

Maybe like campaign in XI we could travel to a zone from the past that might work.

[Calevr]

I agree ^^ 1.23 for me was the best time, the game started to feel better more stable and I will always have lovely memories. I miss the world feeling alive and my path companion and the groups of people in a party out in the world. I miss the old Coerthas and my characters voice and my old friends whom I ventured with so long ago. I miss the community and NM fights.

I know what you mean. I think how cities right now are bursting with life, back then we were doing stuff together that awarded also a better community experience in the open world. The current game just needs both, I think. This is especially as you get higher in levels. The lv1-15 experience isn't too bad. Lots happening in the starting zones but that quickly reduces later on. Hunts are a good addition to the game but the way these are completed don't actually make you care about who your doing them with. They just don't last long enough.

I also had a linkshell that was very active and we did lots together. From gathering to crafting, we did battlecraft leves, behests and exp chains.

[Sclair0]

Maybe someday for 2.0... For 1.0 though? Nah

What I would like to see for 1.0 though would be maybe a single player game covering the story, something small like a 2d thing or something

[Kes13a]

the thing I dont get is people ask for a classic version when it was only classically panned as the worse release ever.

people play classic then the "I wish we hads" start when you realize there are zero QoL improvements, and adding them... doesnt make it so "classic" any more.

be happy with what you have, time has moved on, the "good old days" werent as good as what you remember