Quote Originally Posted by ShadowyZero View Post
honestly feel like they should just give modders a pass already they did so for Final Fantasy XV i don't see why they couldn't do so again. it would free them up time and resources that could be better spent adding more things to the game and improving systems and quality. Baldur's Gate 3 did the same thing too.
think of all the hairstyles, facepaints, tattoos, an shared gear pieces we could get if they just outsourced too modders so many things would be solved by their dedicated fans in very short periods of time.
Beside harder mods being illegal (like console and hardware modding, anything that gives you a competitive edge) there is a definite "Only we control the narrative of our games" type of situation. Besides needing to control quality output, there is cultural things happening here.

Which I do find odd considering Japan being the home of doujinshi of all things, but I digress. It's unlikely to happen with Square Enix who are very old guard in the rpg realm. They likely want to ignore modders. I think FF15 was more of a fluke because the game absolutely flubbed, and they don't want to attack modders on FF14 because they know that there is seriously cultural differences at play, and also modders have to pay money to even test their mods (because you can only test in game) and that it is way to late to stop that train without serious consequences on the bottom line.