That’s silly. Just to mention a few issues:
- hardware. EVE has never been a cheapo-server game. How you pay a fullsized Tranquilty-2 to run the “classic” on it?
- software. Each version past, even if CCP has it stored, worked in exactly one possible coniguration of the server. It’s not just “here, take this old build and put it somewhere” -different hardware, different bugs, different build. You’ll be essentially recoding most of the old build to make it work in the new server… for what?
- “Classic” according to whom? The game I see now is different than the one I quit in 2015, and that was different from 2013, and that was different from 2011, and that was different from 2008 when I started… how do you decide what is the “classic” experience?
- social game. EVE is a social game. You can drive back hardware and software, but people will be the same and the issues caused by people will be the same, or even worse.
And last but not least: most people who quit EVE a was because the places it didn’t go, not because it went to the places it went. I don’t want to play the game it was in 2011… I want to play the game it never was after incarna, or the game it never was after Rubicon, or the game it will -realistically- never become.
Don’t bring back the milestones of the path it’s been, rather bring me a first step forward in the path not taken…