Chocobo Music is Disturbing me !!

[Gramul]

Disturbing's kinda a strong word. How about annoying or stale?

Is dat swapping an option?

[AsterBarnivere]

Disturbing's kinda a strong word. How about annoying or stale?

Is dat swapping an option?

Dat swapping is against the TOS as it falls under modifying the client.

[Neomarl]

Dat swapping is against the TOS as it falls under modifying the client.

You can't honestly think SE will ban you for modifying something totally harmless to other players? There's no advantage to be gained by changing the music.

[AsterBarnivere]

You can't honestly think SE will ban you for modifying something totally harmless to other players? There's no advantage to be gained by changing the music.

It's still against the TOS regardless if it's harmless to other players or not. You're changing THEIR client to something that wasn't supposed to be in the game in the first place, from armor mods to music.

[Ingolf]

It's still against the TOS regardless if it's harmless to other players or not. You're changing THEIR client to something that wasn't supposed to be in the game in the first place, from armor mods to music.

Got any links to back that claim up?

[AsterBarnivere]

Got any links to back that claim up?

Activities that destroy game balance
Using third party programs or tools in FINAL FANTASY XIV is strictly prohibited since they allow users to gain an unfair advantage over other players. The use of programs or tools within FINAL FANTASY XIV that allow certain continuous actions to be performed automatically are often referred to as absentee play, which is also prohibited in FINAL FANTASY XIV. Additionally, during the course of an absentee play investigation, players may be requested to respond to or comply with a GMs instruction. Failure to do so is consider a violation and may result in disciplinary action being taken against the account.

The following activities are also prohibited in FINAL FANTASY XIV.
•Modifying, analyzing, integrating and reverse engineering game data (.DAT swapping counts as modifying)
•Utility creation and distribution
•Exploiting SQUARE ENIX programming that does not run as intended to gain profit or damage other players

FFS, no one reads the TOS anymore...

[Zantetsuken]

You can't honestly think SE will ban you for modifying something totally harmless to other players? There's no advantage to be gained by changing the music.

Not true at all.

Players who .dat swap won't end up being fatigued from having to physically turn down the blaring GC Chocobo music every time they mount up, and then turn it back up after dismounting...

Also, the .dat swappers won't have headaches from listening to the music when they get tired of adjusting the audio all the time...

Normally, I'd say it doesn't make a difference, but since the choco music is so obnoxious, I'd say .dat swappers have a clear playing advantage in this case.

(half joking)

[Gramul]

Dat swapping is against the TOS as it falls under modifying the client.

Riiiiiight.
So is 'not' dat swaping a 'un'-option to should'n't' 'un'do?