Additional characters were only a dollar a month back when I played retail too. But you could only log in to one at a time. I had a main, an 'alt' that rarely got played, and my storage mule.

If SE popped open a legacy server, I have a level 75 Samurai I would migrate over to a 75 cap server in a heartbeat. I signed the hell out of that petition. It's a long shot, but it's still a shot worth taking.

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You guys really miss all those retail bots for NMs, HNMs, fishing, crafting, leveling and RMT all over the place? Do you really miss that? Cause you know if Square opened this server it would have almost zero RMT/Bot control.

Additional characters have always cost $1 a month on the same account since the game launched.

That was actually one of the perks of the game back in the day, the sub was a few dollars less than the regular $15 sub of everything else on the market, unless you paid for a few extra characters.

I was hoping no one would respond to him, because all it's going to do is turn into a bashing session. Anyone can list all the things wrong retail. Anyone can list all the things wrong with Nasomi or any other private server. It's pointless. Plus the guy clearly has no idea what he's talking about if he thinks none of that AND WORSE isn't happening on private servers.

This isn't about retail vs. Nasomi. Just because an official server exists doesn't mean Nasomi would shut down anyway.

I gave SE the middle finger when i decided to play on Nasomi.

Blizzard has been shutting private servers down for years... long before Classic was announced... and there are still several running... Vanilla even...

This is why we should stay on topic. Too much misinformation.

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fully agree -I didn't honestly realize people actually thought this much effort would be put forth to cater to like 5,000 people.

Ya'll enjoy Nas while it's around. Sign a petition if it makes you feel better, but it's not even remotely likely.

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Legacy servers are popular among the communities for the games that have them, often times being more popular than even the current live servers. And that's only referring to the ones with OFFICIAL legacy servers. When you start looking at private servers, that numbers are even larger.

So why then, do people think that FFXI can't be as successful as those other games? Why are those games special but not FFXI?

You're all assuming a certain logic from S-E, which does not always apply to entertainment corporations. Blizzard is a good example and if you leave the real of MMO you can note Nintendo's behavior of "we're not even selling that game anymore and don't have any intention to do so but we'll still sue your ass if you copy it". True that S-E may have willingly chosen not to do so (though Nasomi may be actually growing too big for its own good) but that will probably not be the case if they present an official alternative.
AFAIK there are currently no really popular private WoW servers (though I don't play WoW and may not be fully updated) - I mean, would you even begin grinding and leveling a character on a private server if you know it's probably going to be taken down in a few months top?