SE should release the server software for Version 1.0.

**Rhianu** · 01-04-2013 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by Siegtaru

What's silly is that anyone could think that they could take the 1.0 software, and run it on a private server and have it run even a fraction as good as the real thing, which SE was barely able to upkeep with an entire team within their company constantly maintaining it.

Except that people run private servers for almost every other MMO out there and they run just as well as the real thing. A huge team is needed for developing content, not for hosting anything. All you need for hosting is some decent equipment. A server only needs a few basic things like power, RAM, an internet connection, and so forth in order to function. But once everything is set up, you don't even need to touch it unless something goes wrong. A server does not need to be constantly monitored by a human being in order to work.

**Siegtaru** · 01-04-2013 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by Rhianu

Except that people run private servers for almost every other MMO out there and they run just as well as the real thing. A huge team is needed for developing content, not for hosting anything. All you need for hosting is some decent equipment. A server only needs a few basic things like power, RAM, an internet connection, and so forth in order to function. But once everything is set up, you don't even need to touch it unless something goes wrong. A server does not need to be constantly monitored by a human being in order to work.

The only way that ever works is when the company releases much of the code, or the code itself is "open" (like it is in WoW). The best FFXI private server you can currently find out there is lacking in most of the content that's in the original, and most of the functionality of the entire game doesn't work (like most of the story content, half of the job classes, newer areas, etc.) as it should by far. I just think it'd be a lot of wasted effort. I tried to get into the FFXI Private Servers but the severe lack of... everything made me not care at all.

**Sasami** · 01-06-2013 09:19 PM

But let's face it ...
It would be nice to have in your home the server of XIV ...
At least to finish all the quests that were available until the end ...

Or not it?

Also because, except those who will have the chance to access the beta test, there will be more chances to play XIV: ARR until June (at least) ....

**Gramul** · 01-04-2013 07:24 AM

They don't really have any reason or intensive to do so. I mean, it might be interesting to have it in a historical sense.
Later generations would know the mystery behind one of the biggest flops in Final Fantasy history instead of hiding it away and keeping it a lost artifact. But Square as a company has no reason to do so.

I'm actually picturing threads or whatever we'll have in the future, where young fans of Final Fantasy XXXII will talk about the secret past world of one of the old games like how we talk about secret versions of old canceled games and beta mysteries today. What a hoot.

**BruceyBruceyBangBang** · 01-04-2013 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by Elexia

Ironically there is a XIV private server out there that ran 100x better than the official one because they cleaned up a lot of redundancies. You don't need the source code to make a PS really.

This has less to do with the fact it's a private server and more to do with lazy developers. I've played a lot of Ragnarok, Maple Story and Lineage 2 Private Servers that mimicked the official releases with benefits, which are the original purpose, to give a free version of the real game.

I'd like you to direct me to this mythical private server that is apparently one hundred times better than the original. If you could do that me, I'll give you a way to contact me in private as I'm sure giving out this link on the forum will result in some punishment.

I'd just like to see this. Cause I doubt it really exists. If it does, and I assess that it does and works well, I'll eat my fucking words. Show me.

**oddo** · 01-04-2013 10:54 AM

might take people away from 2.0, they wont do it if they are smart

**Kallera** · 01-05-2013 12:58 AM

No matte what you may think of the game. Companies think long and hard before releasing code, It can result in giving the competition a boost SE doesn't need right now, or make new competition with Bootleg MMO attempts. Keep in mind the tools that were made to create 1.0 were also used to create Final Fantasy XIII.

**Rhianu** · 01-05-2013 01:38 AM

Releasing the server software does not mean SE has to release the code. Server software does not have to be open-source.

**Kallera** · 01-05-2013 02:00 AM

Originally Posted by Rhianu

Releasing the server software does not mean SE has to release the code. Server software does not have to be open-source.

How much more of a jump will it be to take the program, or the graphics that runs on it?

Mind you, if there are laws against it; and I'm sure there are, Keep in mind pirating games are practically a pastime in Asia since the NES.

**Rhianu** · 01-10-2013 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by Kallera

Mind you, if there are laws against it; and I'm sure there are, Keep in mind pirating games are practically a pastime in Asia since the NES.

There are no laws against running private servers of a game. Running a private server is not piracy if it's officially sanctioned and allowed by the company that made the game.

Originally Posted by Wolfie

Minecraft also came out with a different, SWEDISH license than FFXIV 1.0 that allowed it to distribute the server software without losing trademark.

There is no law in any country that says a developer will lose trademark for distributing server software. Is making up fake laws really the best argument you guys have?

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