Addon discussion

[Felis]

SE isn't putting add-ons to the playstation store, it will be up to users. I'm also sure that you'll need a developers license to even publish to the playstation store. Anything SE makes they can just patch into the game, so there's no need for them to make add-ons.

The SE devs can do a top10 chart of the most favourite PC add-ons and can do a version for PS3 and PS4 (inclusive making sure it works wih other add-on) and add them to the PSN store (for free), where the PS players can choose which add-on they want to install

[Noxifer]

The SE devs can do a top10 chart of the most favourite PC add-ons and can do a version for PS3 and PS4 (inclusive making sure it works wih other add-on) and add them to the PSN store (for free), where the PS players can choose which add-on they want to install

Which in turn would take quite a while to determine "most favourite PC add-on", and then dev time to convert it to PS version. Meaning those PS players would have to wait for a couple of months (most likely) before they could get the same benefits the PC players had been enjoying. Which is something SE apparently doesn't want to do.

So in order to make things "fair" for PS users, they would have to find either a way to let people upload their add-ons to PS store, or to let FFXIV players download PS addons through some other means (and transferring it to the PS device through a USB stick or something -- I haven't had a PS4 for long, so I have no idea what you can do and not).

In the first case, Sony would be responsible for any errors, unless you "signed" a waiver by downloading said addons to not hold Sony responsible for any damage to your console or game by using them. Even if they added that "waiver", they'd still have the moral obligation to ensure that add-ons were labelled correctly and that none of them were against their ToS or contained illegal implementations (pulling things from the air, but for example having a UI skin with naked lalafells in -- which in the eye of the law could be seen as child porn). In the second, Sony wouldn't really have to face that dilemma, but SE would have to figure out how to make that possible, and Sony would have to agree to such a workaround, which also would open up possibilities for other games to do the same (unless they already do).

I'd like to state, however, that despite listing all these problems, I'd love for add-ons to become possible. If only for the aesthetic portions of it, which are the ones I'd be most likely to try out and/or use.

[Felis]

Which in turn would take quite a while to determine "most favourite PC add-on", and then dev time to convert it to PS version. Meaning those PS players would have to wait for a couple of months (most likely) before they could get the same benefits the PC players had been enjoying. Which is something SE apparently doesn't want to do.

Better later than never, especially if it is just for aesthetics and bring no advantages except maybe a cleaner UI.

[raelgun]

Better later than never, especially if it is just for aesthetics and bring no advantages except maybe a cleaner UI.

Heres the funny thing with cleaning up or optimising the UI, people who optimise the default UI already give them selves an advantage over those who don't, so the addition of UI optimisation through addons doesn't actually change this. All this will do is give them more control over what they have been doing anyways, however this is a sony issue and hopefully this gets sorted.