Please stop using Discord during raids

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They banned Discord back when it was called FFXIVAPP before the rebrand and change in focus to all games instead of only XIV, I don't see what the issue would be with giving it the boot now. Frankly, they should have started handing out bans for Discord links in PF/chat when those were being bandied about for RMT and ERP purposes.

Uhh, XIVapp was not Discord. It never had anything to do with Discord....

[hynaku]

Ban everyone not using Commodore 64 computer.

[seraf]

Uhh, XIVapp was not Discord. It never had anything to do with Discord....

There's some truth to what they said but it's not entirely accurate. It used to be called discordapp and that was also the URL. On the original homepage for Discord back in 2015 they had FFXIV logos splashed around.

Discord 2015 homepage

[LittleImp]

Uhh, XIVapp was not Discord. It never had anything to do with Discord....

Yeah, they're misremembering some factoids about Discords history.

Discord was developed by an FFXIV player who also made Guildwork, which is an app very similar to XivApp. I assume that's where the confusion is from. Discord was created as a disposable voicechat, borne from frustration with trying to communicate in raids on 14.

[Nyxs]

Yes down with Discord and it’s pesky bots! Looking at you Dyno. You know what you did.

[Larirawiel]

Ban everyone not using Commodore 64 computer.

B... but ... i have an Amiga 500. I hope, it is also allowed.



Cheers

[SaberMaxwell]

Yeah, they're misremembering some factoids about Discords history.

Discord was developed by an FFXIV player who also made Guildwork, which is an app very similar to XivApp. I assume that's where the confusion is from. Discord was created as a disposable voicechat, borne from his frustration with trying to communicate in raids on 14.

I remember first joining discord because they were directly partnering with xivdb back in the day iirc. I thought it was a neat, free alternative to TeamSpeak but it was a hassle moving friends off of Skype at first.

Ah, memories.

[EnigmaticDodo]

People are being disingenuous and you know, you do you. There's a clear difference between Discord, Calculators, Shaders, cosmetic changes, general quality of life stuff vs having a bot call out mechanics before they exist (and list them in order for you too as a ui element), using a program to ignore animation locks + being able to triple or quad weave w/ no detriment, etc etc.

I don't think anyone cares half a sh-- about people using simple UI mods, like showing peoples job icons, floating chat boxes, etc. or about people changing how things appear on their client.

It does suck that it's become everything or nothing though, I will say.

(I do not advocate using any mods, regardless.)

[SaberMaxwell]

There are people who've been banned who only had simple ui mods.

[LeonKeyh]

So let's say I'm into robotics and make a little robot to press keyboard buttons. And then program it to hit the buttons to execute a rotation for me? Am I creating a third party tool or does it not "interact with the game"?

The bot would be...playing the game... which is in fact...interacting with the game....

If you have the Discord Overlay turned on (puts a list of whose talking in the top left of the game) then it's interacting with the game

No... it's not. It's an Overlay that is visual on top of the game. It is not interacting with the game...