Quote Originally Posted by Hoehenflug View Post
It's still funny to me so many people are argueing in favor of addons. The best argument is, 'if it doesn't effect you, why care?'. Cause uhm.. empathy? Concerns?

Let's see how addons are already influencing FF14:

Auto-silence in PvP
Undercutting
Skip Cutscences
Use of addons 'recommended' in discords
Visual upgrades+ Debuff timers
Meters used in group content to judge people
Influencers advertising them unregulated
Players feeling cheated out for following the TOS
PS4 players having access to none
etc.

If your friend started FF14 today, would you really recommend the PS4 version with a straight face? How do you explain this to loyal PS4 customers?

I guess some people really miss their WoW ilevel and parser mess. Please go back to the game u ruined.

Again, there's a difference between use and advertising them (for profit). All of these people should be banned imo, but seeing as some of them even got invitations to the media tour, I guess it's time to mod away.
UI mods do none of those things. UI mods are graphical changes that do not affect gameplay save for making it more accessible to those who necessitate graphical changes. UI mods =/= bots, UI mods =/= parsers (though some can contain parsers, they are not themselves parsers), UI mods =/= cutscene skipping (actually, there's no addon that skips cutscenes, and as far as I'm aware, what people are doing is force closing the game during prae/castrum. If you are referring to players not getting cutscenes in regular dungeons, trials etc., there is a setting in-game that allows for this.)

ACT (which is the defacto parser) is a glorified excel spreadsheet. What it does automatically you can, also, do automatically through the use of excel macros. As Yoshi P. has himself stated: It does not affect numbers, does not interact with the game, and only reads logs and outputs them using a built-in calculator. Using excel with macros, you can do the same thing.

However, ACT as a program is not a UI mod. This post is about UI mods.