Why won't SE make a "classic" FFXIV server that starts from ARR and progresses to the next expansion every once in a while?I've seen many long time players on 4chan and plebbit get butthurt about this idea, claiming it would "split the playerbase". I don't get this argument at all, because the kind of people who would want a "classic" server would be:1) New players who don't wanna essentially play alone for 400 hours before getting to DT2) Old players who quit because they didn't like the recent expansionsBoth groups are most likely NOT subbed to the game, so they aren't part of the playerbase.I think it would be fun to have everyone start on the same page and progress together, especially as someone who didn't play from the start. SE clearly can afford extra servers, because just look at the deserted DC that's Dynamis on NA. They could start with 1 server per DC/region to cut costs.
because 2.0 was traumatically bad and the current playerbase is mostly modders, wowtourists and shadbabs
>>736479205If 2.0 was traumatically bad they would have overhauled the whole thing instead of deleting a bunch of quests. Also, you don't have to play it yourself.
if they wanted to do a proper classic server they could try making 1.0: actually finished and not a janky mess edition2.0 through 7.0 is essentially the same game
>>736479057Too bad they lost the source code for everything before 7.0.
I don't want to go back to ARR. Part of the reason I've dropped FFXIV is because it has wasted all the potential I thought it had (all in the name of streamlining), while letting all the glaring flaws fester. Going back doesn't solve the problem in my eyes, because it was just a starting point that could've gone somewhere great. But we never went there.
dude if 2.0 was bad this game wouldnt exist anymore
>>736479057Only wowcucks are paying for that
>>736479423I played 1.0 so I wouldn't mind going back to it, especially if it ended up progressing to 2.0 eventually so I could experience the Calamity like people did 10 years back. Sadly, SE seems to have absolutely zero creativity and prefer to stick to the same formula of a new expansion every 2 years, with the same cycle of content release. They also make it harder for new players to join in because every expansion adds like 80 hours of MSQ.
>>736479205It's insane how the game just went to shit once that happened
>>736479057The demand for it is so extremely niche as to be fringe, and the technical challenge of establishing it immense.
classic ffxiv will not work because if you remove the msq the game barely has content until you reach stormblood with Eureka.Like what the fuck are you going to do in 2.0? coils for raiders crystal tower for casuals?
>>736479886How do we know the demand is extremely niche? SE has never done any surveys about it, and 99% of people know that suggesting shit on the internet will amount to nothing. If SE actually did a survey then you'd have a point.
>>736479950According to your logic 2.0 had no content. If that was the case, it wouldn't have made enough money to give us HW.
>>736479951because people fucking hated 1.0 when it came out
>>736480102Did you read the OP? It says ARR (2.0) not 1.0.
>>736480230brb, killing myself rn
>>736479951Because there's already very little interest in Unreals, which are effectively the same thing on the scale of a single duty.
