Mod users in FFXIV are getting out of control

[Dualgunner]

odd they are showing up as a lala for me


Nope just check the very first post was by a lalafell >.>

Hyo covered it, but I'm a perfect example myself. My main is an Au Ra female, but I prefer the way my lalafell fills out the portrait frame, so I have her set as my avatar and my Au Ra in my signature.

[Stigmar]

Either way seriously if they are worried about an online avatar they have bigger problems they should be worrying about and I would recommend they seek help.

[KageTokage]

There are mods out there that let you change virtually everything about another player's appearance that can be modified in-game, whether it be gear or character creation parameters (You can even exceed what's normally possible, judging from some...interesting pictures I recall seeing here a while back).

That said, if people want to lewd someone, they're going to do it, and nothing can really stop it short of SE implementing something to block foreign processes from interacting with the game client.

It's really an "out of sight, out of mind" deal for me. I wish I could apply this mentality to bots too, but I can't make them invisible.

[Stigmar]

oh don't get me started on bots and SE spaghetti code lets actually have devs work on real issues like getting a better inventory system instead of it still running on the old 1.0 code that shares your inventory with the moogle mail (yes this is a thing) shall we.

[JackHatchet]

You'll get a better inventory system. It just costs real-life American dollars. You can pay for more retainers, and the expanded saddle-bag is tied into the paid-application. They can clearly give us more space--but you have to pay. It's not like they can give it for free.

[XenoCranel]

oh don't get me started on bots and SE spaghetti code lets actually have devs work on real issues like getting a better inventory system instead of it still running on the old 1.0 code that shares your inventory with the moogle mail (yes this is a thing) shall we.

idk how that's a real issue compared to bots.

[KisaiTenshi]

I wanted to comment about your post on other MMOs. This is how I know you absolutely have no idea what you're talking about. There are plenty of threads that explicitly discuss 3rd party tools in other MMO forums for their respective games

I've seen one MMO destroyed, and one damaged by this kind of behavior, does it not make sense that I don't want people justifying their mod use because of weasel excuses of "oh it's only client side". Because "it's only client side" becomes "QoL", and then it becomes "botting behavior". Go look in the other thread about bots. People do large scale violations with impunity because they've not been slapped on the wrist for small things.

Quit defending third party tools and mods. None of it is needed to play the game, and the life of each content update, and the game as whole is drastically shortened when you suck all the fun out of it in one day.

[Dualgunner]

I've seen one MMO destroyed, and one damaged

Name them.

[KageTokage]

People do large scale violations with impunity because they've not been slapped on the wrist for small things.

I don't think it's so much this as it is that SE has been sending a bad message with how poor they are at enforcing their ToS overall.

Even the painfully obvious gil farmers who are hacking through walls and flying around are often allowed to persist for months despite people reporting them. I checked today after seeing a mess of them by questgivers throughout Thanalan and there was close to 100 of them outside of instances on Cactaur alone, and nearly another 100 in instances judging from how players were in their FCs but not showing up in player search.

[KaivaC]

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Please, do name these two MMOs supposedly affected by third party tools. I certainly hope these games are actually decent MMOs with a decent size player base.

You cannot equate bots to ACT because in essence, they achieve different functions. Somebody who does not raid or even utilize the tool to help improve their own performance in endgame content should not be running their mouth about how it hurts anything. If anything is going to kill this game, it'll be the devs for sucking out the life of the game by being stagnant. Not third party tools.