Quote Originally Posted by BruceyBruceyBangBang View Post
Good luck with that piece of s#!@.
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.

Quote Originally Posted by Zenaku View Post
Even if they did it would suck look how bad some private servers from wow is with lot's of things not working put that x100 with how bad FFXIV is to fix shit ya good luck not going to happen they not going to give 1.0 away for free.
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.

For example, everything from official works but it has a slightly (or greater depending) drop and exp rate and the ability to auto change your jobs/appearance without going on asinine quests if you don't want to. The ones for WoW is mostly because as of now, like FFXI and EQ, WoW is many expansions in and most players won't dedicate that kind of work to remaking the experience or making it better. XIV has almost no content that someone can easily turn it into a private server and make some changes..but that also leaves the question:

The fact XIV has almost no content, why make a PS out of it? It makes sense for XI where you can easily take a 10 year old game with 1000s of hrs of content and make a PS and make additions, but XIV had nothing in it really. You can still do quite a bit with what's there, but that's all you'll ever have..

XI has original, zilart, promathia, aht urhgan, goddess and abyssea areas to build around, XIV only has original and a bunch of instance zones.

Sure you can reformat the maps if you want but that's not likely. So if you do want to make a PS, legal or not (its not) you don't need SE's code to do it.