Is Square losing Money due to 3rd party tool usage?

[SomeGuy22]

If the modding scene cost Square a significant amount of money, you can bet that they would've cracked down on them AGES ago. If anything mods keep people subbed longer.

[Atelier-Bagur]

If the modding scene cost Square a significant amount of money, you can bet that they would've cracked down on them AGES ago. If anything mods keep people subbed longer.

Lol I'm gonna have to agree with you on this one. If it were an actual financial danger they would've absolutely done whatever in their power to prevent them. Not saying thats the full reasoning but probably a factor on why the dev team has been lax about it.

[HikariKurosawa]

Lol I'm gonna have to agree with you on this one. If it were an actual financial danger they would've absolutely done whatever in their power to prevent them. Not saying thats the full reasoning but probably a factor on why the dev team has been lax about it.

I don't think modders understand how good they were at hiding their cheating in this game. It was really surprising what I learned all just within this last short while over the omega protocol cheating scandal. I'm not sure how it happened this hard, but it's never been so published on the internet until now. Especially with yoshi-p making an official statement how there is no grey area and it's all just been rule breakers coping with their mental gymnastics.

How bad is the problem? I don't know, but I know it is bad enough for me to feel unsafe logging into this game personally. There is no anti-tamper in place, there is nothing they do to protect their legitimate players from modders. Even cosmetic mods are including malware at this point. It's different in WoW because it's all officially supported through blizzard's API, but in FFXIV you pretty much have to go to the dark web/discord to get addons. Most of them are extremely sketchy. You shouldn't be surprised if you get identity theft from playing this game.