Seriha wrote:
You're advocating piracy on a site with official ties to SE. Whatever moral high ground you think you're standing on pales in comparison to the threat of their lawyers. You know they're out there. Find 'em yourself.
I accept what you say about it being piracy I suppose, which kinda sucks because companies will close a game down forever before they let someone else run it, even if it's for free. This is a form of piracy I'm behind and I hope it never goes away, the only way to play games like Phantasy star online now is via these private servers and that's a great thing. I will find other forums that allows us to talk about it to get around that I guess.
However I wanna comment on the official ties bit. Lets be brutally honest here, this site has taken a massive hit over the past 5 years or so. Having official ties means nothing to this website anymore, that only mattered when they did interviews and stuff. They don't even really have much of a staff left anymore.
The FFXI portion which used to be huge and brought in a decent amount of ad revenue is barren.
The FFXIV portion never really took off at all, this same thing applies to FFXIAH and KI too. All of these forums are on life support.
The golden age of these sites was when ffxi was popular, now that square is killing it and ffxiv never really took over that spot with these sites none of them really care too much about staying on Squares good side I would think.