I was about to suggest that. Recording your cutscenes with your character in them. Cause yes, watching other people's characters in the cutscenes on youtube doesn't really hold the same importance or magic :/ Burn them to a playable DVD so that you can watch them; maybe even hire a few friends to do the voice acting for some of the text based cutscenes lol

And quite frankly, it IS asking too much of them to make an offline version. They'd have to convert everything (again) into an offline format, and then integrate how the monsters behave and whatnot into it..something that could take them longer than it took to rebuild ARR.

This scenario for rebuilding has happened once before too: when making XI for the ps3? "We'd rather just make something new." That "new" was XIV.