/r/ffxivdiscussion Reddit Poll: Do you want anti-cheat in FFXIV?

[Gemina]

https://i.imgur.com/XhEvZJX.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/RrJvV1o.mp4



I can do that too.

So where's the fix from SE ?

You're not doing anything. Your links simply shows the jank, which everyone has to deal with. If real time physics matters to you, then you should also ask the devs to stop making our WoLs fall distances that would otherwise kill them.

[Reinha]

Your links simply shows the jank, which everyone has to deal with.

Well, not everyone. The cheaters don't have to deal with it. That's why they cheat.

And I wasn't talking just about the fall guys event which I already gave up on. I meant things like invisible Hrothgar hats, how the cursor defaults to "no" when turning in HQ gear, how you can't see the timer for housing lottery in the timers menu, how the chat scrolls down when you're trying to read something further up and how that achievements nearing completion pop up and workshop cutscenes still can't be disabled. Oh, and the ping-based prolonged animation lock that's been a problem for the entire history of the game is still there.

It doesn't take much thought to figure out why someone would download a mod when there is a metric ton of jank that shouldn't be in the game. If the jank was gone, there would be fewer reasons to cheat. The devs said as much when they started to fix some of it.

[Gemina]

Well, not everyone. The cheaters don't have to deal with it. That's why they cheat.

And I wasn't talking just about the fall guys event which I already gave up on. I meant things like invisible Hrothgar hats, how the cursor defaults to "no" when turning in HQ gear, how you can't see the timer for housing lottery in the timers menu, how the chat scrolls down when you're trying to read something further up and how that achievements nearing completion pop up and workshop cutscenes still can't be disabled. Oh, and the ping-based prolonged animation lock that's been a problem for the entire history of the game is still there.

It doesn't take much thought to figure out why someone would download a mod when there is a metric ton of jank that shouldn't be in the game. If the jank was gone, there would be fewer reasons to cheat. The devs said as much when they started to fix some of it.

The point of the gif is to show that the plug-in doesn't resolve the jank, so this argument is moot. The reason people are cheating has nothing to do with the jank and netcode, and everything to do with the achievement being tied to a timed, PvP event. The same can be said about world's first ultimate and savage clears. Even though the content is technically PvE, the nature of world's first makes it a PvP contest composed of teams competing against each other. This is a matter of players not wanting to take accountability and would instead place it on the dev team, and reaching for anything they can as the reason. Most people are going to see through this.

Housing is another example of a PvP situation created by a limited resource. And again, players will excuse their hacks by placing accountability on the dev team. And for the sake of argument let's just say they're right. Even then the players are not creating a solution that benefits everyone. Only themselves. At best they are still being selfish and more than willing to resolve their perceived unfairness by cutthroating.

Benign mods is something else entirely. They don't give players an advantage in PvE or PvP content and that's the subject matter currently.