Quote Originally Posted by Shipp View Post

That's fine, and your choice. However nearly all addons in MMOs are customizable and you can set them up however you like.
Fair enough, I mistook what a Healbot was and it sounds perfectly reasonable. You say I keep looking at this from a XIV/XI/Console MMO viewpoint...perhaps that is becuase we are on the boards of said type of game and discussing it's effects on said type of game.

I personally think making it so players who modify their UI have an advantage over those who opt out is lazy game design. Addons should never be "Needed" and I personally think that is one of WoW's biggest faults, just my opinion though.

Considering we are playing a game revolved around PS3 players being involved as well I do hope the limit the type of addons that can be created, as much as I'd love a few myself I don't believe in having massively unfair advantages over people who couldn't mod the UI even if they wanted too.

Having every single person in the zones healthbar on your screen is a strange concept for me, I can imagine if in XI if Whm's could see every persons HP on the battlefield it would have changed the dynamic of ballista alot just because of that add-on and it seems the same thing has happened with your example. Oh well it will still be interesting to see how XIV grows.