Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
Personally the only difference I see at the core is one side wants something added to be added so they can remove aspects that they feel infringe on theiir personal experience (safe space) other is asking for something to not be added that infringe on their experience (safe space) outside of that I do not see any difference
You don't see a difference between wanting to control only how your own character looks, and wanting to control how every character looks? Are you serious?

And no at the core they're not the same. One side wants their intolerance to differing tastes to enable them to change how every character looks, while the others think that changing how other players look goes against the spirit of what it means to play in a mmorpg.

And seeing as you have brought up mods before let me tell you this: WoW is the other big mmorpg out there, and far bigger than FFXIV. Blizzard allow mods but they explicitly forbid any that change how environments and characters look. Mods are allowed to only change how ui looks and acts. Likely because not only do Blizzard believe players having complete control over the presets and gear that make up how their character looks to be something they consider to be part of the aesthetic of their game, they also probably don't want to open the can of worms that is permitting players to change how the world looks to fit their personal vision.

The vision of the game doesn't belong to the players, it belongs to the devs. Not even how our own characters look completely belong to us because we are merely given presets that we can choose from.