Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
People are carelessly using them. Take note of the screenshot threads where models clearly have textures that don't exist in the game.

The Naked/Lewd mods are something I knew always existed (that's literately the first thing that modders do, with every game.)

They definitely exist.



Because people with 4 8TB drives would take literately hours to scan for unauthorized tools.

There are ways of detecting mods, hacks, unauthorized tools, but they all come back to "you can not trust the game client". The easiest, cheapest strategy is to checksum the files with the launcher, and report the server is not available if the checksums don't match. The harder/smarter solution requires the game client sending game geometry/textures back to the server when you change your gear, and having an out-of-bound process on the server to test those checksums against known files. That can be done to specifically look for mods that damage the game's reputation.

For tools that inject into the game binary or sniff the network traffic, those are harder to directly detect, and instead are defeated by not sending data to the game client that it doesn't need, and having the server flag suspicious data (Eg hunt trackers) that are faster than the user could possibly type it out.

But ultimately fighting a war on mods just makes people quit the game, especially when Square-Enix has not actively cracked down on anything.

Those people who are careless and posting about mods they use to the official forums, especially screenshots with the mods active, should not be surprised if one day they can't login to the game.


Not to mention such gamefilescan going over the actual FF XIV Folder would be violating in quite some countries and laws