They need to find a way to detect XIV Alexander and ban people

[EnigmaticDodo]

man, if you do a disingenuous meme about it, it's almost like people aren't cheating at the game lol

- You're able to triple weave flawlessly
- The game has things 'drawn on' to guide you that are otherwise invisible or completely remove thought from 'complex' mechanics (such as in TEA with color swapping and misc other mechs)
- The game will announce mechanics before they exist, either through text to speech or in a bar counting down to the millisecond when they'll go off.

The last point messes with fights such as;
Titan Savage
Diamond Weapon EX
Ultimate Coil of Bahamut

but whatever... meme hehe elexenderfourteen -fart-


(this is complaining about more than xivalex, but its a part of the problem)

[Absimiliard]

man, if you do a disingenuous meme about it, it's almost like people aren't cheating at the game lol

- You're able to triple weave flawlessly
- The game has things 'drawn on' to guide you that are otherwise invisible or completely remove thought from 'complex' mechanics (such as in TEA with color swapping and misc other mechs)
- The game will announce mechanics before they exist, either through text to speech or in a bar counting down to the millisecond when they'll go off.

The last point messes with fights such as;
Titan Savage
Diamond Weapon EX
Ultimate Coil of Bahamut

but whatever... meme hehe elexenderfourteen -fart-


(this is complaining about more than xivalex, but its a part of the problem)

You uh... do realize anything made possible by the weave-improving plugin all this started over can also be done just by having really good ping, right?

Having a mechanic announced to you kinda means nothing because they always come in the same order anyway. It isn't like most other MMOs, where a lot of the bosses are a case of "random BS go" with a handful of scripted mechanics on the side. All of this game's fights are almost completely scripted. The only real randomizations are who gets targeted with what and what edge of the arena will the continuously reused knockback or dash mechanic be executed from, and even then the former is often constrained by role. While I do feel people relying on warning tools are cheapening their own experience a bit by taking the braindead route, they're not actively cheating or in any way harming another player's experience.

The tools that outright tell you where to go and what to do instead of just warning you are a lot less common, and the vast majority of the miniscule number of people using them are probably so bad at the game no amount of tools will adequately assist them in the first place. Even should these tools prove effective in getting those players clears, the only ones being impacted are the ones making use of them. Other players won't be any the wiser, and their own experiences remain unchanged.

With Yoshi-P's recent commentary on the subject, the entire plugin debate is at this point basically just a bunch of people who are unable or unwilling to use them ineffectually crying about people that can and will despite the fact that it in no way hampers their own gameplay experience. It comes off as being almost comically entitled and most definitely envious.