Final fantasy xiv 1.23b server relaunch?

[LioJen]

Look I understand you didn't click with the game. Claiming that it was a "bad game" just because you personally had a few weeks of bad luck is one thing, but trying to claim that FFXI is a "failed game" that was somehow kept alive for 20 years by a handful of stubborn holdouts is just beyond asinine

There were between 200,000 and 300,000 active players daily in 2006.[118] As of August 2006, the Xbox 360 version was the sixth most played game on Xbox Live.[119] As of 2008, the game had 500,000 subscribers.[120] By June 2012, Final Fantasy XI became the most profitable title in the Final Fantasy series.[64] While many MMOs have switched to some form of free-to-play model, the base monthly subscription price point for Final Fantasy XI has remained the same at $11.95 since its debut in 2002

Now keep in mind that this was while competing with WoW and several other MMOs at the top of their game and the peak of the industry competition, as well as the market itself being much smaller, so less players overall to go around and many more quality games for them to choose from. Right now XIV only has a severely damaged WoW and nothing else current for MMO players to choose from.

[Y2K21]

I would just like to see a way to look at the story of 1.23 without having to play 1.23 and without going to YouTube.

[LioJen]

an XI remake was in the works up until a few years ago actually, so SE obviously sees it as a worthwhile endeavor, but after Nexon folded up on the project they might be gun-shy about trying again any time soon.

I think all they would need to do to revitalize interest is combine the launcher and give a discounted sub with XIV.

As for 1.x content getting revisited... how about To Kill A Raven (Ultimate) or even (Unreal)? (and no, Coils is not the same thing just because it features a version of Nael)

[midnitdragoon]

You do not need the sourcecode of the original game to restore the behavior of it.


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Is there a source for that? That's craaaaazy. So so all the hours of work spent on that, just gone? I find it hard to believe, but at same time I'm not shocked if that did indeed happen after arr released. I remember few years back, blizzard was asked about remaking Diablo 2. They said that it wasn't possible because of the programming back then.... Maybe source code? But here we are few years later, they found a way to remake Diablo 2.

I feel that in the end, money can solve the problem, if they want to do it

[Enkidoh]

Is there a source for that? That's craaaaazy. So so all the hours of work spent on that, just gone? I find it hard to believe, but at same time I'm not shocked if that did indeed happen after arr released. I remember few years back, blizzard was asked about remaking Diablo 2. They said that it wasn't possible because of the programming back then.... Maybe source code? But here we are few years later, they found a way to remake Diablo 2.

I feel that in the end, money can solve the problem, if they want to do it

It definetely happens - Square themselves famously binned the master files for FFVII after it was released - it's why the PC port of FFVII was so buggy, Eidos (who was an independent company back then), were given an earlier beta build version rather than the final masters used by Sony for the PS1 version, as Square said the original FFVII master version no longer existed and couldn't be located, and was presumed deleted for some reason.

Given 1.0 was an utter failure as as a game, ARR did not need the original client files to run, and SE were frankly wanting to wash their hands of the whole debacle, little wonder they binned 1.0 completely.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Y'know, I have a physical copy of FFXI that I got as a gift but never opened (I was still into WoW at the time and didn't want to pay for two MMOs). I wonder if the code still works.

[Lunalepsy]

Now hear me out, before anyone says nightmare this, nightmare that....

What if Yoshi P launches a classic 1. 23b server, same battle system as it was back then, but with QoL systems in place (ex: auction house/market board, companions etc).

I feel like the 1.0 story... It deserves to be experienced. Like I know there are YouTube videos, but sometimes I really wish I can go through the story again. Die from that over powered monster outside gridania, fight monsters while hearing that killer battle theme! I dunno, wish there was a way to experience some of it to some extent.

Call me crazy but.... Part of me wants to experience this fight for example

https://youtu.be/Uq3fKwetD3k?si=ECyrsQBbQRZ9CTST

Too many ppl are used to WoW now. Going back to a pre-WoW mentality is too stressful for this community.

[midnitdragoon]

If there was a demand for it then, I feel there would be a demand for it now. Sure some of us may not have the time (even myself, I mean I have work and family) to prog it every day but there are A LOT of people who do. Labor force participation is shrinking meaning more people don't work and get sustained by someone else, there are still plenty of kids and college students that don't do anything during the summer and for people like us we would just go slower. The disabled would have an easier time playing something like that than say.... IDK trying to clear a savage or ult where the pacing means you're always moving and pressing buttons really quickly.

I just feel a well executed, modernized version of a progression focused and slow paced MMO would find the same crowd of fans it did back then when the gamer pool was a lot smaller and had more challenges.

Given that no company wants to gamble though, I feel remaking XI with XIVs Engine and seeing how that venture goes would be a great way to save costs and try it out. Especially with the graphics update is receiving in 7.0. I mean XI fans would be over the moon with a nicer looking version of their MMO.

Or unreal, since they're using that over at CBU1, which ever proves economical and more upgradeable in the long run.

Do community reps or any square employees ever read these comments and pass along the information? I often wonder if anything is done with these suggestions, ideas and requests or if it just goes to a black hole never to be entertained.

[Ath192]

Do community reps or any square employees ever read these comments and pass along the information? I often wonder if anything is done with these suggestions, ideas and requests or if it just goes to a black hole never to be entertained.

They do read them and pass them along, they almost never do anything with them however, but occasionally they will take an idea and run with it. For example if you head over the to Hrothgar hair discussion there was a mod that asked for further feedback a while back.

They also implemented an idea suggested here about making the commendation screen show the character portraits instead of a list. Those are the two that come to mind. Rebuilding a game from a forum post? I don't think so.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Do community reps or any square employees ever read these comments and pass along the information? I often wonder if anything is done with these suggestions, ideas and requests or if it just goes to a black hole never to be entertained.

Just recently they took feedback on the new graphics update.



One was limbal rings I believe, and the other was showing darker skinned characters in the previews.