Thread: Plausibility of an FFXIV 1.23 Offline Edition

Didn't someone try to do this back in the day with XI?

Originally Posted by Riv

Didn't someone try to do this back in the day with XI?

Yep as said, FFXII is essentially FFXI offline. Also this project would be fairly easy. Would SE do it? Probably not, would some with time on their hands do it? Definitely, as all you'd need to do is emulate a server and take it from there.

Originally Posted by Forgo

Yes its call FFXII sadly enough it fail to be same thing but it was a good game in its own right

It mucked it up with Vaan and his painted on abs. They should have followed the leading man.

Originally Posted by Forgo

Yes its call FFXII sadly enough it fail to be same thing but it was a good game in its own right

It was way better than XIII, that's for damn certain. lol

Originally Posted by Riv

Didn't someone try to do this back in the day with XI?

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.

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 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?