At this point will FFXIV collapse if all mods and third party tools disappear?

[AwesomeJr44]

No hyperbole or exaggeration here, if that happened and there was no hope of them ever coming back, then it would at least would heavily damage the game's playerbase. People really underestimate how many people use third-party things, especially if we are going to assume that 'third-party' tools encompasses external sites like Teamcraft or Discord. If everything was wiped out in an instant, many people wouldn't have a good reason to play the game long-term anymore, and this game can't survive off of the turbo casuals (the ones who play once every 4 months just for MSQ) alone.

And if you wipe out Discord... whoo boy... so many things in this game would be dead.