Quote Originally Posted by LianaThorne View Post
You're making a lot of assumptions just because someone likes to make their base character look good and anytime I see you post now it's literally just attacking people about modding even if it has nothing to do with the actual topic at hand. We get it, you hate modders. They're not the ones forcing the game in the direction that it is though and it's honestly starting to become a really tired joke to constantly relate the game to a second life type or a casual only experience. The devs are pushing out content to appeal to more than just the hardcore raid scene...because the hardcore raid scene isn't the only community that exists here. Taking away modding or shaming people that use it isn't going to suddenly make them become raiders or somehow encourage a mass exodus from other games to push it in a direction of every person only engaging in harder content.

Also, you do realize that people who do harder content like Ultimates also mod their characters or their animations to look better? They mod their UIs to look cleaner? Modding isn't just a thing for roleplayers anymore or for people who want to lewd out their characters for gil, it's becoming something that players across all playstyles are using to improve the game.
Other games like ESO actually actively encourage mods. They have an in-game mod list on the main title screen as well so you can see what mods you installed. Most of these aren't visual but QoL like map icons and the like.

From many perspectives specific mods are just QoL that the devs haven't gotten around to. I know XIV has policies though, but I don't see every mod as some evil.