Will You Join META Server Lv75 Old School Era?

It sounds like a great idea on paper, but there is no way in hell that I'm reliving THAT struggle and period of my life all over again. Once was enough for me.

Good luck if you decide to do that or be a part of it though. Would probably be cool to a lot of people.

Exactly. There's so much do to already there's no time for that.

there are a host of private servers for this exact thing. People started making them when they got all salted over aby's vertical progression.

edit: Am I allowed to say that? I don't mean to promote private servers over the legit game.

That sounds incredible exhausting in today's FFXI landscape especially if your server has a small population. 12-18 man content only works when you have enough people to support it multiple times over.

It's going to take a fair amount of work to scale back post 75 content to 75. Then you have to take into account strategies that are only possible because of breaking the 75 cap and adjusting difficulty to that.

Then you take into account that all those hours could be wiped whenever the server host isn't in the mood anymore. At least when SE wipes all our data we'll hopefully have a long heads up beforehand.

I think it'd only work after FFXI shut down.

It's just personal opinion but I find private server only has value after official server shut down. Otherwise I don't see a point to play a game on private servers.

Why would I do that when I can keep my character at 75 on live, keep all of my friends from live, and do 90% of original 75 cap content by myself or with my 5 besties, whoever I choose them to be at the time.

Legendary camps seem redundant if you can only level up once per hour. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it.

Level 1-10 will take 10 hours? Even soloing 1-10 in the true 75 era didn't take that long. Maybe half that. I understand you don't want the 1-75 in a couple hours of today, maybe 30 mins per level to 50 then bump to an hour.

How many times can you re-lvl? Once, unlimited?

What content would need to be regeared? Everyone have to get Dring again or similar?

Some good ideas here for nostalgia and bridging new content into 75 era, but I'm not sure how high the demand for all the grind is.

not to mention the lack of abilities and sub job abilities that are available due to level 75+

im no longer an active player but i had been with the game pretty much just until seekers hit.

The game has had so many meta's and has transformed many times however i dont see what every one thought was so great about the older era.

i have many memorable experiences with it mind you, but some of the things that have been added since and having played other mmo's those dynamics were beyond punishing and im thoroughly convinced any one who thinks old school 11 is better is either a masochist or has rose tinted glasses on.

as i know alot of people at least liked to hate on wow i can go and put this into perspective, there are alot of old school wow players that say vanilla (pre first expansion) was the best. (and some even concede the first expansion but afterwards they are no different in this regard) and often complain its too easy to hit max level, sound familiar?

This.

Where the PSO private servers allowed us to play an old game that was difficult to play due to old consoles, I don't really see the point of private servers for a game that is readily available and where the official servers will always give a better environment.

Time-intensive MMO run on a private server that'll shut down the moment a C&D is issued.

Pass.

I really do not like the way the game mechanics in Abyssea were designed...
Even if you scale it down to lv75 those aspects that Abyssea ushered into ffxi will still ruin the game.

SE won't do something like this, it would require a lot of extra work on their part.

SE would not do this. What you're suggesting would require them to actually add to the FFXI team because you don't simply just scale back items that are over lv 75. Tons of the post 75 gear have stats that never existed or when they did were practically unique.

I really don't think you understand the absolute headache and amount of work what you're asking for would take. No sane company, especially a publicly traded one would do this.

Lastly, why are you so fixated on level 75? You're just asking for all the content we currently have but to scale it back, that makes no sense.

I worked on Age of Conan during the P2P->F2P transition and that was a huge hassle, I can't imagine what this would be like.

Only option seems to be to make a bootleg ffxi on a private server where you control all the programing details.

plenty of them exist at various times, the problem is finding one that sticks around long enough and the admins don't get worn out.

Only content I would want to do over again is CoP/RotZ missions (with competent people) and a legit level 75 Absolute Virtue and Pandemonium Warden. Everything else: No thanks.

And as posters before have mentioned, stuff added after level cap increase would be extremely time consuming to rebalance.

God no, so tired of the lv75 ***.

No.

SE is not handling the mobile port and probably don't want to pay to have the PC port retooled as it would potentially split the user base AGAIN.

If you want to play 75 content go play on a private server. I don't know how you don't understand that you don't simply scale back stats for items. The post 75 content is specifically set up to handle breaking the 75 level cap for jobs.

Your idea is bad for a company that doesn't want to put more money into something than it has to.