Official Statement: Regarding Mod Usage and Culture

[Kahnha]

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.

more than 270k was the figure the plug in dev gave in the interview then note it was just one plug in we don't know how many people use other stuffs.

The person i was replying to wanted all of those people off the game which is a poor take.

I'm gonna keep saying it; a better take and action on square's part would have been to give personal accountability to people that were belligerent TOS breakers like the guy that got banned for using ACT on stream back in 2019 you don't see people using it anymore but they still claim to use it same thing for the ERP club mare advertisements in shout chat banning these people or at least punishing them would have cut down on a lot of nonsense and it would have padded them from the fallout of just axing the plug in out of the blue.

Yeah maybe not the full 270k will leave but square doesn't want even 30k it's a lot of money to lose, they just got done begging us to buy cash shop items or sub costs would be considered for increase while putting a sale on the mog station. lol

they're already bleeding subs and they are acting hungry because of it.

You better believe to them it is all about money share holders don't care about laws they don't care about how you feel what is right what is wrong, that we had a discussion of what they should do or shouldn't all they care about and in extension square is; are profits this week, better than last week's? If they are down the share holders are mad and square is not happy with that. It's why they C&D'd mare and why they came out with this weak "we understand and won't chase you over modding letter" after the fact, because yes Balmung is easier to get into those people that spent the at least the last 2 years? (Idk about plug ins well) sharing their charas are not as interested in RP w/o being able to do so charas to one another and in the end Square allowed this to grow to that point to begin with.