Quote Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda View Post
Supposedly they're working on an offline version of FFXI they can release before taking the game's online servers offline due to it being a numerical main line title in the franchise series.

IMO I'd rather they go with making a brand new MMO keeping FFXI's original design philosophy intact with as much or more mechanical details including all the small hidden ones people don't find without experimenting.
I don't know. A lot of the philosophies get circumvented by data miners and spreadsheet enthusiasts. Goes up on BG-Wiki or FFXIclopedia, or other sites in days of yore. You try to figure stuff out yourself? Lost for hours. Look it up from the data miners who figure it out by botting/reverse engineering the game etc. Smoothish sailing. Find something they didn't maybe, somehow? Ridiculed/told you're wrong/you're just eyeballin' it etc. All hail the sacred spreadsheet!

An offline version sounds interesting. I'd love to see how they balance it.