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

[raelgun]

say you want to see the game die without saying you want to see the game die

The game was profitable with less then half the current player base and at a time when it delivered more content per patch on an actual 3 month cycle.

[CStrife912]

The game was profitable with less then half the current player base and at a time when it delivered more content per patch on an actual 3 month cycle.

FF11 and Everquest even SWTOR got new content regularly or still do even now with a fraction of the player count...it takes a massive drop for a game to die...even if they had 100k players in total not even at once I bet the game will still live on in some capacity. Maybe a refocus onto something new but yeah...the game would need to loose a loooooot to constitute that as a possibility...the modding numbers would be a chunky loss but not enough.

[Nebelheim]

The game was profitable with less then half the current player base and at a time when it delivered more content per patch on an actual 3 month cycle.

I think they stated the game would still be profitable enough if it maintained 200-300k players back when arr first launched and had around that number of people playing during launch. But with how big the player base is now and how long mods have been around and allowed as long as it remained hush hush they would lose a decent chunk of players. They would still have a large playerbase but would lose a good chunk if they decided to go hardcore full ban mode on modders or had some software to detect mods. They seem to not mind mods as long as people don't openly talk about it then that's when actions get taken.