Could "classic" servers for FF14 work? Do people feel nostalgic for older versions of the game?

[Uncle Jon]

FF14 is over 10 years old and has had many expansions. There are other mmos out there that have been around a long time and have servers where people can play older versions of the game to experience how it used to be back then. This works with WoW I feel since the modern version of that game is significantly different than the original I guess? The only other mmo I know that has servers were you can play older versions of it is the first Everquest and the other is FF11 which has a fan server to play back to an old expansion fans wanted apparently. I dunno if this works with FF14? Because they bring back past limited events such as the yokai watch and the ff15 limited time events which gives newer players an opportunity to grab mounts/weapons/minions that those events give out. Also they did a really good job keeping most old dungeon/raid content somewhat relevant and easy for other people to play through. There is probably a lot of old raid/dungeon content in WoW that nobody does normally in that game (I mean with a raid group and not soloing the entire thing). Could a classic server work for this game? Are there certain aspects from the original ARR game other than fewer job classes and a lower level cap that would make a different experience that players are having in the current version of the game?

And I am not talking about servers for ff14 1.0 I mean the reboot version of the game lmao. Although I know you can access the original version of ff14 in a private server I think?

[Acoustic Stoner]

as someone who did play ARR on release year. Not worth it. people would play it for 2 - 4 weeks and then **** off as we did a decade ago.

Sure there were people that stuck around but copium for the better was required. I ran out and left for 6-7 years.

[Terrible]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGRfmRaIx8
This was Yoshi-Ps response to someone who asked this question years ago.
ARR 1.0 was not like WoW classic. It was so much worse of a game.

[hagare]

Originally posted by Terrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGRfmRaIx8
This was Yoshi-Ps response to someone who asked this question years ago.
ARR 1.0 was not like WoW classic. It was so much worse of a game.

I bet some people will try it just for the novelty and experience xD

[Uncle Jon]

Originally posted by Terrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGRfmRaIx8
This was Yoshi-Ps response to someone who asked this question years ago.
ARR 1.0 was not like WoW classic. It was so much worse of a game.

Was the beginning of ARR kind of bad? I would have imagined it would have to be better than the original version of ff14 which was so bad that the entire game had to be rebooted into what we know as ARR.

[Sunny]

YoshiP was talking about 1.0 there (Nightmare), not ARR. ^^

No, ARR wasn't *that* bad. You don't want to go back to the Waking Sands 20 more times though.

[Raansu]

I kinda miss how jobs played in heavensward and stormblood... but I wouldn't play a classic version of ARR. The game isn't that much different in its core design, and level sync keeps old content relevant, but I'm not really all that interested in giving up all the QOL changes over the years to play and older version of the game.

[causality]

Originally posted by Terrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGRfmRaIx8
This was Yoshi-Ps response to someone who asked this question years ago.
ARR 1.0 was not like WoW classic. It was so much worse of a game.

Only thing I appreciate about 1.0 is that it had a more dangerous overworld and people actually talked ingame rather than post stale memes and their parse no one cares about on Discord.

[xyz]

I think we will get a classic FF!4 ARR server at some point.
Might be at the tale end of the next expansion though. Whenever SE learns that this game is no longer so popular to milk the cash shop with to bring back the jaded players.

It worked with WoW so it would work with this (but at a smaller scale.)

[EESER]

Doing servers wouldn't work like for WoW. Though I would not be opposed to having some old elements return such as replaying 1.0 era quests we cannot access now. Or replaying old levels that were more challenging than what the current version of them are. For example, I do recall in old Castrum Meridianum to defeat Livia Sas Junius you had to use cannons to first destroy her Magitech armor. Something like this could easily be done in one of the Bard's Tales. Mostly that is it for me just replaying old versions of levels. But if we are talking old mechanics, I wouldn't be opposed to having the various elemental type damages return like the game once had. Also having your characters deity choice provide some bonuses and the return of the elemental materias.

[Corrderio]

Originally posted by Big Brother Jon:

Originally posted by Terrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGRfmRaIx8
This was Yoshi-Ps response to someone who asked this question years ago.
ARR 1.0 was not like WoW classic. It was so much worse of a game.

Was the beginning of ARR kind of bad? I would have imagined it would have to be better than the original version of ff14 which was so bad that the entire game had to be rebooted into what we know as ARR.

Yes. It was bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs8nEtHrCr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=575nZk2jmno

And this is just the tip of the iceburg. Between the slow and awkward combat the job balance back then was horrible.

Only thing I can say I missed around that time was there weren't any gear restrictions and the stamina system (Which was later removed late into 1.0 after Yoshida took over) was an interesting concept on if you wanted to pace yourself or not.

[Giganx]

Don't see the point.

In WoW old content gets replaced by new content; so going back and reliving each expansion has some nostalgic value. In FFXIV anyone who does roulettes is already still seeing most of each expansions content on a regular basis.

[Raansu]

Originally posted by Bayou:

I think we will get a classic FF!4 ARR server at some point.
Might be at the tale end of the next expansion though. Whenever SE learns that this game is no longer so popular to milk the cash shop with to bring back the jaded players.

It worked with WoW so it would work with this (but at a smaller scale.)

It wouldn't work here. Current WoW and classic WoW are drastically different games. That's not the case for FFXIV where all of the old content is still relevant.

[Shiraze]

nah only bad games need classic servers

[Scarsick]

Originally posted by Shiraze:

nah only bad games need classic servers

/thread

[Zeithri]

You can't put the genie back into the bottle once it's out.
FFXIV 2.0 is a very different beast compared to other MMO's.

One name:

Minfckingfilia and her ###clowns of Scions.
The book grind.
The atma grind.
The extremely lackluster yet forced upon you story.

And tons of other stuff.

At most, what would probably go home better is reintroducing classic content into moden XIV such as longer Praetorium and Meriadum. They used to be 10+ man raids and Meriadum even had a railroad section you ran across. That and allowed to skip cutscenes. That was the good stuff. Hell Praetorium was the highlight of ARR as far as I'm concerned That's the stuff I miss.

EDIT: Besides, you can't smooth over stuff.. I'd want to experience 1.0 myself because I never did, I joined with ARR, but I've almost non-stop complained about the story since then. It is bad. I sarcastically call it " That one time I was reborn into Eorzea as the Warrior of Light and had to work for everyone ", because the story just feels like an isekai more or less. NO ONE can do what our character can do so all feeling of tension is just gone now. It should had all ended with Endwalker.. And FFXIV should had been a single player game..