Thread: Plausibility of an FFXIV 1.23 Offline Edition

Originally Posted by indira

yup it was call projectxi a server that never was finshed and i think they said SE shut them down when they found out about it.

Seriously!?

Geez, kind of a jerk move. I mean, it's not like they were trying to make money off of it, were they? What would have been the downside to doing that?

Originally Posted by SkyeWindbinder

Seriously!?

Geez, kind of a jerk move. I mean, it's not like they were trying to make money off of it, were they? What would have been the downside to doing that?

Bootlegs, Bootlegs everywhere.

Originally Posted by SkyeWindbinder

Seriously!?

Geez, kind of a jerk move. I mean, it's not like they were trying to make money off of it, were they? What would have been the downside to doing that?

Just fyi "PXI" was revived and is actually a thriving a scene atm.

Originally Posted by SkyeWindbinder

Seriously!?

Geez, kind of a jerk move. I mean, it's not like they were trying to make money off of it, were they? What would have been the downside to doing that?

whoever has this -> ©, owns and can do whatever they choose with it.

Originally Posted by indira

whoever has this -> ©, owns and can do whatever they choose with it.

LOL XD

Originally Posted by indira

yup it was call projectxi a server that never was finshed and i think they said SE shut them down when they found out about it.

Yes, this is what I was thinking of. Not FF XII, lol.

Originally Posted by Mjollnir

I've been thinking about this. Ok, I'm going to park the financial and staff cost element of this discussion because it's not something I can comment on. I'll leave that open for other, better informed folk to discuss if they choose.

However, technically, could an offline single-player version be done, and would it make a fitting tribute to FFXIV 1.23? I think yes, with a couple of simple changes.

Firstly, you must be able to control and level multiple characters. I think a nice feature would be for you to have unlimited scope for the number of characters you want to create; you could leave the ones you didn't want to use in the inn. You could control up to a full alliance-worth at the same time, switching between direct control at a keystroke (though your active party members would have to be in the same zone).

Sounds hectic! So secondly, you'd need a pause function wherein you could 'ready' actions of your currently controlled characters like other offline RPGs. I only suggest this over the traditional FF ATB because it would require a lot less resource to implement.

With those couple of functions, I think the game could stand alone as an enjoyable aside to ARR. I'd certainly take the time to attempt the battles I was never able to originally and examine the lore that I missed.

Anyone else think it's not beyond the realms of plausibility? If such a thing were to be released, how much would you pay for it?

The plausibility is zero. It's over, let it stay dead.

Originally Posted by Rhianu

How about this: instead of making an offline version of FFXIV as it existed in patch 1.23, just release the server software for it, and let players make their own private servers. No need to rebalance or redesign anything. Just give players the same server software that Square-Enix themselves was using. This is a much easier and cheaper solution than trying to rebuild anything in v-1.23.

Can do this now (and people have been doing it ever since 1.18.) You just have to know what to search for in google lol. Obviously won't link anything here but do know, like every other MMO (including XI), PSs for XIV 1.x does exist. How far they are though depends on who's making it.

SE will never release the software since XIV is still their property and they hope to make money on ARR, usually companies will release the software when they're pretty uch done with the MMO or people will reverse engineer it.