Neither are you, bucko. You can take your hostility, strawmanning, and ad hominem attacks and go play something else since you hate it here so much. You won't be missed, nor will you miss us. The fact that you remain here just outs you as a troll.
Are you mad that someone is pointing out that the game isn't successful enough to justify having such a dirty cheating community enabled in it?
"Successful enough" and "Good enough" aren't as quantifiably critical of statements as you think. The game could be so much more than mediocre, but the cheating community holds it back so much.
Like I have said, I probably love this game more than most of you. I don't have to mod it or parse to enjoy it.
@Zebraoracle I want to be able to look up to the peers doing challenging content. You remove that experience from the game. You make it some self-indulgent dishonest thing where everyone is just playing for their own experience and nothing external matters anymore. I want ultimate weapons to actually have real prestige. You want to do what you want, even if it means breaking the rules. Shame on you.
I should be meditating before my exam but here I am...
If that's what it takes to qualify as a blog post then you must have really poor standards.
Gonna ignore what I said to you? You invalidate all prestige of this game by cheating in it. What do you think that does to the feel of the world? You are a selfish cheat. I think there is a simple solution. Delete all ultimate weapons owned by anyone, implement an anti-cheat that is strict, and then the people who actually deserve their weapons will have reason to grind them again. Those who can't earn them will not get them again. World feel fixed.
It's not about the accusations it's about what side you are standing on. I can assume as much about you if you are defending addons in this game. It doesn't matter either way, because they will probably just delete all ultimate weapons from the entire game when they introduce an anti-cheat. You will be able to get them again if you actually have the ability to do it. If not? Too bad so sad, cheaters ruined a good thing. It's not hard to undo their damage, just takes a bit of coding.
I'm talking about wiping all pre-existing ultimate weapons. That's not hard to do at all. Just delete them and make people earn them again. The anti-cheat comes first, but solving the sabotaged world feel is a simple matter of deleting any existing ultimate weapon. Then prestige is restored. You people keep saying stuff like "why does it matter what anyone else does or how they got their loot?" because prestige depends on legitimacy.
What you are doing here, essentially, is arbitrarily accusing every world first, and indeed every raider to have ever completed Ultimates, of "cheating" without having any way to prove it. Stripping away those weapons without proof is a surefire way to kill what few Ultimate teams there are out there. Besides, even if they are utilizing third-party tools, exactly how does this make their achievements unfair if darned near everyone else in the raiding community is also using or benefitting from them?
What you are failing to consider is that players rely on tools like ACT telling them their numbers so they can determine the correct way to play and gear their jobs. At present, endgame content is tuned in such a way that not having access to this information would in fact make it virtually, if not impossible to complete. Even players that do not themselves run ACT are almost always grouped with people that do, and thus they are able to see their numbers when they get uploaded to FFlogs. The theorycrafters that provide us with so much information about rotations and stat weights are also highly reliant on tools like ACT.
Additionally, I would note that all player data gathered by ACT is already available via combat log if you want to spend twelve years sorting it out and doing absurd amounts of math.
There is no "broken world feel." The vast majority of people do not care about this one bit. A small minority is being overly vocal about it, but those same people (yourself included, from what I can tell) keep misrepresenting the facts when making their points.
Heck, even the JP player-base doesn't really care all that much about it, and they're normally the first ones out witch-hunting third-party tool users.
I promise you this is an entirely made up problem that you came up with yourself. I don't give two flying craps about the prestige of clearing Ultimates, I did it for the fun of it and the feeling of accomplishment. If you care so much about "prestige", why the hell are you playing an MMO that is already looked down upon by a LARGE portion of the gaming community?
Your posts reek of "FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS" and I freaking hate using that phrase.
Precisely. The people with the skill to get the job done simply do not care. The ones whining would never have been able to earn the weapons in the first place. The bloody things look awful anyway, with a handful of exceptions.
Obviously they care. You don't because you used cheats to get them. There is a difference. Even if only one person who earned them honestly cares, they matter more than 99.99999% of the people who "don't care" in your mind.
Nobody here is whining but you, about the scenario where your weapons are permanently confiscated because you know you can't earn them honestly. I don't have any attachment to the idea, I just want to be able to look up to the prestige again. MMO with no prestige might as well be a single player game. I want progress to mean something. This self-indulgent apathetic mentality is killing mmos.
I sure do love the opinion of prestige on content from someone not doing that content.
Oh silly me for pointing out what SE and yoship keep saying every single time this topic is brought up. Install mods at your own risk, simple as that.
Are you sure you're not mixing me up with someone again? Atmost all they need to do is say "we told you so, third party tools are a security risk". I am considering how this will affect their stance but there is more to their stance than the flailing outrage of the forum. The devteam isnt made up of tantrumming children, it's adults running a business. For this specific business cheaters arent as reputation damaging as for pure pvp games like valorant, overwatch and league as by and large they dont negatively impact players in their normal play sessions (yes I know, pvp cheaters exist but not enough people care about pvp in this game for SE to lift a finger).Quote:
We receive many inquiries regarding infection by viruses and spyware that steal passwords after downloading third-party tools and plugins. To keep your system secure, we ask that you exercise judgement and refrain from needlessly downloading third-party tools or software of unknown origins.
In reality they are profit orientated and while the FF14 part of SE has some morals intact when it comes to monetization (as opposed to other parts of the company) there is little hesitation when it comes to mods. Yes, yoship thinks modding in gaming is overall a good thing but that doesnt stop him from sending the hammer. Which leaves us with the possibility that maybe the modding scene is overall beneficial to SE's bank accounts. Forum outrage and memes wont change that. Afterall, if people can fix their issues with the game (of which there are many) through mods they will have a better time with the game and will potentially stay subbed for longer.
I'm sure you dont mean to concern troll but that really is the risk of the people installing mods and not anyone else's. It is also kind of an ironic thing to say in a thread about introducing an anti cheat software which needs even more permissions on your system, just look at valorant's anti cheat. If giving vast permissions to a program is a concern to you then you have to be against anti cheat software. The permissions given to anti cheat software in general has in the past already been exploited in the case of genshin impact's anticheat.
at this point you need to just stop coming on the forums or something. You coming off as a unhinge individual at this point. And since you are leaving have good one and hope you find a game that does not have mods because a decent amount of games do have mods
The only time Square Enix should add such a program to scan for plugins it when the devs for said various plugins go more invasive like the Gshade dev team did.
It is true. I am also against anticheat software. Because it installs a Ring 0 driver/kernel module. A Ring 0 driver has way more permissions than the Administrator account. And anticheat software was already hacked:
https://www.techspot.com/news/95781-...ansomware.html
A bad programmed Ring 0 kernel module can also easily cause BSODs, it can badly interfere with antivirus software etc.
Cheers
Noone needs ACT, if noone can clear a fight without it, awesome, square enix will keep adjusting the fight until it is at the right level and can be cleared by X amount of people.
Now if everything and everyone can clear a fight that means square will keep increasing the difficulty, in turn increasing the cheating...
They just create a fight that's impossible to be cleared normally, so they could easily ban everyone that clears it.
That is an amazing anti cheat.
You assume ACT has any impact on the difficulty of content.
Why?
Do you even know what it does?
Maybe you anti-mod fanatics would start getting some credibility if all your attention wasn't focused on the most inoffensive of the bunch. (and crying about accessibility plugins of all things) The one even Square Enix thinks isn't that much of a problem as long as it's not used as a tool for harassment.
There are zoom hacks, splatoon, cactbot, and actual botting which plagues the raid community, cheats that actually trivializes content but you can't stop talking about ACT of all things. What a sad joke.
You are the ones trying to justify one addons, on my side there are no addons, you only use official software from square.
I wasn't the one that said "At present, endgame content is tuned in such a way that not having access to this information would in fact make it virtually, if not impossible to complete."
If you can't complete it its all for the best. That means eventually square will make the difficulty accessible to those that don't cheat and use add-ons.
People: "Without this information being available, clearing raids will be harder."
You: "Aha! So you can't clear without ACT!"
People: "...I mean, I can just plot the Battle Chat log onto an Excel Spreadsheet. Would take more time, but essentially it's the same"
You: "B-But you said no ACT right?"
People: "Oy, world's greatest parent, do you honestly see ACT anywhere in our sentences? We're talking about the information, regardless of what organizes it."
You: "So ACT!"
People: "Bleeding hell..."
...
Honestly, I'd teach my son how to read and have comprehension skills before trying to instill blind morals. Because this? It ain't it, sister.