Thread: Please remake 1.0 in New Game+

Originally Posted by Exosapien

This is something I'll never understand. It's such a gross leftover boomer mentality to want to hoard digital items from other players because it makes someone feel important to have things other people don't.

It wasn’t my mentality. I didn’t have an opinion on it, to be honest. Just saying if you want to see the Forums burn, then sure. Offer them again.


I own a lot of exclusive minions from the art books and OSTs, and I’ve always been of the mind that they should have never been timed exclusives. I don’t care if others bought them tomorrow and got codes for them. Doesn’t impact me in any way.

Originally Posted by Exosapien

This is something I'll never understand. It's such a gross leftover boomer mentality to want to hoard digital items from other players because it makes someone feel important to have things other people don't.

I'm not sure what "boomer" has to do with anything here. Pretty sure the mentality of exclusivity has been a thing since...well, forever for the human race.

Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

Hmm. Probably not the best idea to offer any of those items again. Were you around when they put the White Raven earrings as a Rising event reward? The forums exploded with the outrage.

If you're told "this exclusive mount is for doing PvP" and then two years later it's "oh, and we're selling this mount in the Gold Saucer for MGP", people feel like their achievement is "lessened", because now people who didn't "put in the work" can have the same thing. Forums always burn when you get to that point.

It's unfortunate; I personally tend to think things should either be achievement-based but permanently available -- for instance, the Demi-Ozma, Cerberus, and Amaro mounts, or the weapons you get for doing the Ultimate fights -- or if available only for a limited time then their exclusivity should only be guaranteed for a limited time. (I.e., if you can only get mount X from season Y of the Feast, you're guaranteed that mount remains exclusive to that achievement for, say, two years... but after two years, they could add another way to get the same mount.)

Because there are few things more disheartening than starting a game, discovering a thing you really want, and learning there's no way you can ever get it because it was only available during, say, a two month window for PvP four years ago.

I admit, though, there are exceptions. And as much as I'd love the legacy stuff on this account (as opposed to on the 1.x account I'd lost the password to), I think maybe those ones should remain exclusive... they show folks were willing to support this game when it was at its lowest, to have faith the new team would build something better. Something worth sticking around for.

Without them, it's debatable whether we'd have this game; a handful of largely-cosmetic exclusive items seems little enough as a thank-you.

Once upon a time there was a private server that hosted 1.0. I don't think it still exists. I think searching for something like that would be your best bet. As a Legacy player also, I do miss my time in 1.0, but I don't think it would work. If memory serves, in 1.0 each city state was one massive zone with no load screens. So Ul Dah and all of Thanalan could be explored without a load screen. Archer had to craft his own arrows. Crafting was affected by the phases of the moon. You could wear underwear. 1.0 is effectively now so different that to implement it would be like implementing an entire new expansion-- but with old content. I don't think it would be worth it.

However, I do miss it. I would be interested in finding a 1.0 server. I wonder where I should start looking?

There's some content that was ret-conned from what I remember, so the lore behind certain things no longer matches what it used to be.