Official Statement: Regarding Mod Usage and Culture

[Crafoutis]

The United States is particularly inept with ESRB ratings. Even the European and Asian ratings for FFXIV start at 15+.

You know what else the United States is bad with? Their players not heeding the wishes of the creator of the game and minding propriety, betraying the social contract put forward by the devs.

[Crafoutis]

they are not thinking with their head I fear, or we wouldn't be here



You aren't wrong. You really think the freaks would let slip away their sacred g0.0ner paradise parade? They would be better off touching grass for now, and the community to avoid whatever replacement mods are released atm. Or SE is forced to make modding harder - hurray, even less content.

I hoped in the past SE would go the way of WoW, and create a guideline for mods - at least from ethical standpoint, the user will still be responsible for what they use.
But once you give the community some rules, I feel they are more likely to respect them, than something vague they cant fully grasp.

Example of what Blizzard did once

I'm an advocate of an accelerationist stance:

I want modding to get so bad that Squeenix is forced to implement a kernel-level anti-cheat and completely obliterate any and all mods.

[Commander_Justitia]

I'm an advocate of an accelerationist stance:

I want modding to get so bad that Squeenix is forced to implement a kernel-level anti-cheat and completely obliterate any and all mods.

After they tried to invent their own cryptographic methods for blacklist, and general JP stoneage in IT security, I rather not let them make spyware. xD But they can make it hard to mod and waste a lot of peoples time. Which would make modding like work. And then we are in a loss loss situation.

[Crafoutis]

After they tried to invent their own cryptographic methods for blacklist, and general JP stoneage in IT security, I rather not let them make spyware. xD But they can make it hard to mod and waste a lot of peoples time. Which would make modding like work. And then we are in a loss loss situation.

If people don't want that then we'd better hope the community wisens up and stops modding and sharing.

[RedLolly]

The rule was "Keep it to yourself."

That was still too hard for people to follow and it was overwhelmingly because of porn or thirst-traps.

[Crafoutis]

I say good riddance and let them all leave, this space, like any space, is only made better by their absence.

[SasukeUchiha81]

I've read it, watched a video dissecting it, then read it again. Honestly, we took it too far, dial it back. Yoshi P is a rockstar from my POV, for the way he handled and explained it. I agree.

[Swordsman]

You know what else the United States is bad with? Their players not heeding the wishes of the creator of the game and minding propriety, betraying the social contract put forward by the devs.

Yup, no argument from me on that. Like others have said, modders did it to themselves.

[Kahnha]

I say good riddance and let them all leave, this space, like any space, is only made better by their absence.

good riddence to more than 270k players that's more than 3 million usd square stands to lose
you may be willing to pay 25+ a month to get rid of the add on users but I am sure a lot of us less needlessly spiteful players are not.
14 is not even worth 15 usd a month at this point, an anti cheat would likely cause performance issues awful take.

this guy is a prime example of why viera hats were a mistake.

[Zackneifein]

good riddence to more than 270k players that's more than 3 million usd square stands to lose
you may be willing to pay 25+ a month to get rid of the add on users but I am sure a lot of us less needlessly spiteful players are not.
14 is not even worth 15 usd a month at this point, an anti cheat would likely cause performance issues awful take.

this guy is a prime example of why viera hats were a mistake.

In no way in hell all the users of Mare will stop playing. The vast majority won't and will continue only in the client side, like before. It's even certain that the "270k" have many that don't truly used Mare.

And I'm quite amused by all those who say "it's all about money".
So you mean that a company is running a game whose economy is based on : a subscription and a virtual store will act when one of those two sources of is endangered by mods ? They aren't running a charity ?

*surprise pikachu face*

You also all know, I'm sure, that in many countries, using mods to use paid, and therefore licensed virtual content is simply theft ?

It's a great statement from Yoshida that is telling basically : what is the fight club that everybody is talking about ? There should not be a fight club, *wink wink wink*, as it should be.