Quote Originally Posted by Reelos View Post
This is mostly a Brainstorming attempt.

Wouldn't it be easier for both sides to clearify what is allowed an what isn't, if there was some sort of ground both parties could ground their Statements on?

Instead of saying that they would implement some functions some third party tools provide, wouldn't it be better to make those which are not harmful to the game experience available for Console players as well?

tl;dr: If the FFXIV development Team would create official interfaces for some Game relevant data to clearify that this data is accepted to use in a thrid party tool and NOTHING else but data these interfaces provide, would that somewhat solve this dilema?
This would change nothing besides making some of the plugins/mods not break the ToS anymore. Which would as i said change absolutely nothing at all besides maybe prevent "some" bans but seriously the work that would take is not worth it for the results. The other mods would still flourish and everything would be basically the same. And most of the peps who get banned nowdays are anyways not those who just use mods but those who harass others with parses etc. which would be still not allowed.

All it would do is create more work for the devs to install a framework for these mods and police them so no harmful virus or gamealtering plugins get into the players hands. Which is actually not that uncommon in WoW, there was a incident i well remember where you could force other players to certain actions like trading through a plugin. Which would be a nightmare for XIV i bet.