Thread: A modest 1.0 proposal...

While I think the request for a FFXIV Classic that is periodically requested is unrealistic and will never happen, I do think it's a shame that so much lore and content is essentially lost because it's inaccessible, but that lore still exists in the current world and can often be obscure or just plain not understood by those who never played 1.0 (for example, people not realizing what Thancred is talking about in ShB when he refers to failing Minfillia and there's just a sepia image of the goobbue incident from the ul'dah intro).

What I think would be more do-able and would finally let story/lore enthusiasts reconnect with lost stories is if there was a series of events or an instance system implemented that let people experience modified versions of some of those battles/moments that are lost to time.
There could be an entire series of recreations, perhaps using the in-game excuse of our Echo reacting to something old or an old NPC that had been involved in the event.
Some examples of what I'm talking about:

- a modified remaster/remake of the series of events surrounding Nael van Darnus, where we could experience the cutscenes (as Echoes) of the previous series of cutscenes introducing her and then lead up to a recreated 8-man trial of the original Nael fight
- a re-compilation of the cutscenes leading up to the Fall of Dalamud, so people could see how it was slowly discovered and how it led to the original 3 city alliance
- a questline explaining/summarizing the Path Companion's original backstory and purpose, maybe the quest itself is finding a Path Companion (if you're Legacy, you could finally run into your own Path Companion again) and see what another Echo wielder has been up to all this time, as well as explaining to non-1.0 people what the Path of the Twelve group was

These could be linked quests that basically allow you to uncover entire chunks of story that is currently inaccessible to players. As a bonus to Legacy players, the text could be altered to reflect on how maybe for them this is them revisiting their own memories with the Echo perhaps?

It wouldn't necessarily be a full 1-to-1 of all older cutscenes and events ported into 2.0+ FFXIV (the combat would definitely NOT be 1.0 but rather just current combat style), but at least it would do something towards bringing most of that lost information into the current game, AND it would provide some new playable content (quests, trials, instances, maybe dungeons based on old unfinished 1.0 dungeon ideas?) that everyone could enjoy.

Call the whole thing "Echoes of a Realm Reborn" or "Before the Reborn Realm" or something like that maybe.