Japanese FFXIV streamer receives a suspension for using add-ons.

[Saraide]

well, those botters aren't streaming with proof of their crime sadly.
They have more common sense than that apparently.

Great, nothing of value was achieved. Instead we have some token gesture that didnt adress any sort of actual problem just so we can pretend that someting meaningful was done. The game is literally saved.

[KageTokage]

The thing is you don't need to be seeing things from the player's perspective to readily tell if they're using certain add-ons like bots, hacks, or even the PvP scripts.

If video evidence is really the key factor here maybe taking Twitch clips of a cheater from your perspective is the trick to actually getting action taken.

[Ralphe2449]

Hopefully they start banning the countless western streamers who steam with addons on

[SenorPatty]

Except, even before this announcement, the rules were still in place.

You can blame the community all you want but that community is here to stay and people who use mods need to make peace with that. It's really not hard to wrap your head around and the only person who loses by making a completely ineffectual defiant stand is you. Also, all these people who openly show the use of mods like XIVLauncher are just giving making SE creep ever close to the line they don't want to cross and just like how some people wnat to skirt around their rules, there will come a time where SE will start doing that with the community and tighten their grip further and further on such usage and just like mod users, they'll blame the community too except they're the ones with the keys to the jail house.

[redheadturk]

Yoshi P: I am once again telling you that add-on's are not allowed.
Streamer 5 seconds later: *Streams with add-on's and gets banned*
Ya'll: *Surprise Pikachu Face*

I feel like that dude just got into the crossfire
after today's announcement so the hunt began.
Unlucky kekw.

Nah, he got report brigaded by a bunch of petty arseholes.

[VerdeLuck]

Nah, he got report brigaded by a bunch of petty arseholes.

Mass reporting will not give you a ban, this isn't an automated system. These reports are reviewed by GMs and verified. If they didn't want to ban him they wouldn't.

[KageTokage]

It's not automated but it does feel like it takes a certain minimum number of reports before they'll even consider investigating a player judging from the insanely obvious stuff the RMTers get away with despite me regularly reporting them.

[Skiros]

Relevant tweet:

https://twitter.com/terramagicus/sta...47680979402754

[MintnHoney]

Just a reminder for anyone who wants to discuss how add-ons and third party tools can do good things, it may be reportable just to speak positively of such:

05/09/2022 5:00 AM [PDT]
Regarding Third-party Tools

Welp. I guess many of our favorite streamers and tubers are about to get fucked over pretty hard once the brigade comes around and finds those minor quotes of "I don't think this is that bad" and decides that's more than enough.
The beauty of Zoomer culture, I guess. No wonder why touching grass is such a big deal.

[Batbrat]

The owner of the game you play plus the gms that moderate it for almost 10 years consistently now without ever once changing their minds on it: "Don't use this. and if you do, technically we have no way of knowing. The only way we'd know is if you did something like stream it. So don't stream doing this. Ideally don't do this, but we can't stop you, but ESPECIALLY don't stream it because that's proof and then we will know for sure. So don't do this. It can result in a ban."

Streamers: (Stream themselves doing what they've consistently every couple of patches for years now been reminded exactly not to do)
Streamers: (Receive a ban for doing exactly what they were warned a hundred million times exactly not to do brazenly out in the open during world first streams of all things when people are watching the most including gms/devs/possibly yoship himself)
Streamers: WHAT DID I EVEN DO!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WHAT IS THIS, I THOUGHT THIS WAS FREE SPEECH?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO?? I THOUGHT. WHAT?? HUH??? YOSHIDAAAAAAAAA YOU'RE NOT CLEAR ENOUGHHH

And then yoshi will say once again not to do it and then streamers will do it and be banned and the cycle will continue because streamers keep thinking their numbers and popularity somehow put them above the rules when they don't. Stop streaming it. Just stop streaming it. Do you need attention that badly? Stop streaming it. or don't but accept your ban with grace when you get caught for streaming it when you've been told multiple times to stop streaming it.