I think Square Enix should look into possibly using Easy Anti Cheat for XIV

[Risvertasashi]

I like how everyone understands something different from what the devs say during the liveletter. And every time it's exactly what they wanted to hear. Seems like few people are capable of objectively analyzing what they said.

...Not really? There hasn't been much debate over what was said. Just what people think SE should do.

My personal favorite is this thread because

Here's some others straight from Yoshi-P's mouth:

Like really, I don’t really think this is strictly about tools or mods, but like to distribute widely, for anyone to be freely access, it could lead to consequences not just to us, as although it varies in different countries and how it’s handled, the laws related to porn is very strict. And so we would like to clearly clarify things in regards to this subject… and it’s not about what’s right or wrong… It’s just ‘’NOT allowed’’. We would like to first and foremost tell everyone this.

Going back to ACT, it has a function where you can add plugins and with this, you can add ‘’expansions’’. And these expansions, are not part of ACT itself, but are creations form further third parties. And such expansions, destroy game balance and it goes in the game memory, and it does bad things, and from our perspective, there are much more malicious ones as well. And in regards to this, we are very serious and the moment we find evidence, the risks of penalties is extremely high and we want you to understand this. Please keep this in mind. Even on our side, we have preventions, actually we started since around 4.0 and we actually added security to the data packets of certain actions so that players can’t decipher it. This was to observe how the plugin creators reacted and responded. And we are changing the methods continuously…. And… we want you to stop.

There's more SE can do, aside from scanning players' computers. Push them enough and they could step up security. As Yoshi-P just said in the quote above, they have already even, albeit in small ways so far.

And if some mod does put SE in legal hot water, I would expect their response to suddenly get stronger. Yoshi was pretty much begging people to not force their hand.