With people craving old school MMO's lately, would FF14 1.23b be so terrible?

[AlucaDragonheart]

Yes yes I know "Nightmare" and all that, but with people craving old school MMO's nowadays, would it be such a bad thing to release a new 1.23b server nowadays?

[Shinku_Tachi]

A streamlined re-release of 1.xx MSQ in the game would be pretty neat, because the story is still canon.

But if people are craving the old-school MMO experience, they're better off jumping into EQ1&2, FFXI, and WoW Classic.

[Burmecia]

why not

heard current day games are so unsavoury people would rather play +5yo games that what today has to offer

[Ath192]

I would play that instead of what we currently have. We do need a modern MMO in that style.

[Basteala]

I've seen the gameplay of 1.0 and I'm not really interested.

The fact people are eyeing it at all speaks volumes of how bad gameplay has gotten now.

[AlucaDragonheart]

I've seen the gameplay of 1.0 and I'm not really interested.

The fact people are eyeing it at all speaks volumes of how bad gameplay has gotten now.

I like that slow, methodical gameplay, myself. It's why I still play FF11 from time to time, but I wish they gave it a more modern interface.

[Hallarem]

All Ive heard of the gameplay and everything that its ass. People want GOOD oldschool mmos. Not shit ones

[fulminating]

I would give a 1.23b rerun a chance. Probably not enough to get a relic or do rivenroad but it would be interesting to directly compare with xi and current xiv. Supposedly the code is preserved if not the servers so it might be possible if not practical.

[CidHeiral]

Yes yes I know "Nightmare" and all that, but with people craving old school MMO's nowadays, would it be such a bad thing to release a new 1.23b server nowadays?

Yes. FFXIV 1.0 isn't "old school," it's just bad. Its an awful, terrible game. That server would be good for about five minutes of "wow this is horrendous" before you log out and never touch it again, which is why they'll never do it. If you want to play an old school MMO then try FFXI, Classic WoW, EQ, etc.

[Jeeqbit]

Some ideas in it were alright but a lot of the implementation was poor so it wouldn't really work.