With things like third party DBMs coming to XIV... when are we getting addon support?

[Risvertasashi]

DBM is crap. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but I'm just being honest and straight.

Honestly... to be blunt, I don't really care what anyone thinks about a particular not-addon/third party tool.

As a personal interest, I just want "addons" that make a healer's life easier, like showing when a party member is out of range or, like another poster mentioned, reworking the kinda crap buff/debuff bar.

You're right, of course. We don't need any of this (We don't need any new quests either but they sure are fun!). But it's quality of life and people are making and getting these utilities anyway. By giving what SE already promised, we could cut down substantially on third party tool use.

[Yshnal]

Honestly... to be blunt, I don't really care what anyone thinks about a particular not-addon/third party tool.

I'm sorry if it came out offensive, but that wasn't my intention. I still think that DBM is crap, though, as I see it kinda like cheating. With it, instead of learning the fight you're just following what the add-on tells you.

As a personal interest, I just want "addons" that make a healer's life easier, like showing when a party member is out of range or, like another poster mentioned, reworking the kinda crap buff/debuff bar.

You're right, of course. We don't need any of this (We don't need any new quests either but they sure are fun!). But it's quality of life and people are making and getting these utilities anyway. By giving what SE already promised, we could cut down substantially on third party tool use.

And why don't you ask that they improve it for everyone instead of making them use these same resources to build the API to make add-ons possible? I think that if everyone benefits without having to rely on outside apps, it would be better. And everyone will be playing with the same rules, too (unless they break the ToS, but that's their problem).

[Teirshin]

Honestly... to be blunt, I don't really care what anyone thinks about a particular not-addon/third party tool.

As a personal interest, I just want "addons" that make a healer's life easier, like showing when a party member is out of range or, like another poster mentioned, reworking the kinda crap buff/debuff bar.

You're right, of course. We don't need any of this (We don't need any new quests either but they sure are fun!). But it's quality of life and people are making and getting these utilities anyway. By giving what SE already promised, we could cut down substantially on third party tool use.

You can already tell if someone is out of range for heals if the number with the icon for the spell is red when you select them..... how much more hand holding do we need? Most of the game is already faceroll easy where you can sleep through it. If you dont want to put in a little effort.. why even play?

I dont see SE allowing addons, despite prior claims. They have enough problems managing their own code without others writing stuff to piggyback on it, and anything that gives PC users that sort of advantage, they simply will not allow.