A simple solution to combat all the cheating!

[Ranaku]

rather this not turn into another WoW where you end up spending more time updating QoL mods than you do updating the game.

they do need to hard ban the cheaters. but the 4 person team doing it, is not up to the task

That's why i suggested to implement a gamemaster team for EVERY datacenter and let them be able to actually ban people. Cheaters have to get banned that is for sure. But it is a double edged sword when you do it with anti cheat. One that would burn all goodwill they have left and all the fun communities players build around the game. Housing, roleplay, gposing and even people who create guides cause they won't have access to data anymore. There would be not much left to thrive in this hostile environment and in the end that would affect everyone cause SE would lose money and that would affect of course the budget of the devs and content.

Edit: Also what the heck are you talking about, players develop the mods and stuff like plugins not the XIV devs. So idk where you connect the devs updating the game and independent players developing mods but yeah maybe think again. xD

[Kes13a]

Edit: Also what the heck are you talking about, players develop the mods and stuff like plugins not the XIV devs. So idk where you connect the devs updating the game and independent players developing mods but yeah maybe think again. xD

no, you misunderstood what I wrote.

I am aware that the devs do not make mods. however, every time there is a game update in WoW, you spend a lot of time going through mods "required" for QoL and updating to work with the new game update. I prefer FFxiv NOT become that. do you understand now?

[Ranaku]

no, you misunderstood what I wrote.

I am aware that the devs do not make mods. however, every time there is a game update in WoW, you spend a lot of time going through mods "required" for QoL and updating to work with the new game update. I prefer FFxiv NOT become that. do you understand now?

That is fair but so far the players update their mods to meet every update XIV brings out not the other way around. And yeah i understand that, i think the XIV devs becoming directly involved into the modding community would be not really productive. But i can tell you that this will never happen, they won't ever acknowledge mods cause it's illegal actually to mod software and hardware in japan AND of course there would be the problem of "which mods are ok and which are not". I wouldn't want to see the devs being involved in that either, there is already too much content being cut from the game and them struggling to keep up with the players expectations.

So no hard feelings i understand you now!