Is the PS3(4?) holding back the game?

[Tupsi]

Interesting, hadn't read that.

Admittedly, I don't really like the fact that SE (has?) to approve them, but that's more a conflict with the company's decisions as a whole than anything to do with the PS consoles, I'd imagine.

Yeah pretty much, look at this whole radar fiasco, they really want to keep the playing field even, so while PC will have random add-ons that does x,y,z, stuff like a parser and whatnot would be implemented on the PS3/PS4 version since that's something they'd approve to be officially supported. There will be stuff they don't support which they said download at your own risk but that holds true for pretty much anything that interacts with your MMO.

[Eissels]

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Which is something that... I don't know. I don't really like the how I understand the radar to work in general, addon or not, because as I understand it it searches everywhere and that's not something a regular addon would do (NPCscan in WoW is the closest thing I can think of and that only finds mobs within vision radius that have already spawned.) But, again, it kinda sounds like PS is holding back what addons can and cannot happen, which I don't like. I have no problem with PS3/4, but it does kind of prevent the game from reaching it's maximum potential as a PC experience. Which is... fine, I guess, overall? It just kinda leaves a slightly sour taste, that so many small QoL changes (for me) could have already been easily implemented with addons (like mob HP values, mining node marking/tracking, a solid parser with a DPS breakdown by ability, etc.)

Also I want an Xperl style so I can see a character portrait.