It's funny you talk about hands up people's asses, considering you're basically demanding people readily submit to cavity checks.
After all. "If you're truly innocent, you have nothing to hide, so stop hiding and stop resisting."
And clearly you've never had your personal information stolen or a motherboard fried because of shitly-integrated anti-cheat software, so we should all just bow down to your all-encompassing experience.
Sidenote: Looking at Square Enix's track record the past, I dunno, two decades? 14 works despite its company, not because of it.
Edit: And you know what, sure. I'll concede my point was over-dramatic. But frankly this shite authoritarian rhetoric constantly goes over the same talking points every single time. It's never just one instance, it's always "SUBMIT TO AUTHORITY OR BE GUILTY CRIMINAL."
I'm fine with anti-cheat if they implemented it.
The people bawking about it don't realize they've already played games with anti-cheats (hint: it's a lot) or they're actually cheating.
Or it would help SE be able to pick and choose which mods they allow, giving them ability to crack down on larger concerns and white listing others. (wow has anti-cheat. Shocker, I know)
"no add-ons allowed" is a result of not having a system to be able to enforce anything other than all or nothing.
I don't think add-ons are a big enough issue that it requires such enforcement but also don't see an issue if they choose to implement it either.
Nope, and a thousand times nope.
I don't necessarily have an issue as such, but it's more about what this option represents. It's effectively the nuclear option of everything they can take, and one that ultimately would put a stopper to a lot of QoL feature updates (A few QoL features have been derivatives of things that I would say people have possibly used third-party for), and similarly this basically puts a knife in the jugular for accessibility - I personally find accessibility as a genuine concern (Not how friendly the content is to enter, but more from a visual design perspective)