Mod users in FFXIV are getting out of control

[Anatha]

It's incredibly abhorrent to see someone conflate nudes of generic video game characters with actual cyber bullying, the likes of which ends lives.

Please get help. This behavior/topic is a red flag, a stop sign recommending against allowing reality to slip even further from your grasp. You are not your character, not unique. Not recognisable, none of our characters are. They cannot be. Especially when wearing nothing. It's impossible for someone to harass another person via taking racy pictures of their in game character and posting it elsewhere. No one would have any clue who they are looking at.

One could post a picture of anything and claim this is x or y person. It's unprovable and meaningless.

If someone posts pictures of actual you without consent then that is another story, but wake up call: Not only are you not your character, it's not your property, it's Square Enix's. You have no foundation for your complaint, it's just evidence that you're slipping. Slipping hard.

[XenoCranel]

It's incredibly abhorrent to see someone conflate nudes of generic video game characters with actual cyber bullying, the likes of which ends lives.

Please get help. This behavior/topic is a red flag, a stop sign recommending against allowing reality to slip even further from your grasp. You are not your character, not unique. Not recognisable, none of our characters are. They cannot be. Especially when wearing nothing. It's impossible for someone to harass another person via taking racy pictures of their in game character and posting it elsewhere. No one would have any clue who they are looking at.

One could post a picture of anything and claim this is x or y person. It's unprovable and meaningless.

If someone posts pictures of actual you without consent then that is another story, but wake up call: Not only are you not your character, it's not your property, it's Square Enix's. You have no foundation for your complaint, it's just evidence that you're slipping. Slipping hard.

Can we be friends?

[Zeonx]

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Basically what I said, very beginning of topic I don't see why they think that their character is them if that is the case, I think they need a break off the game.

I feel like they need a warning when they log in like they had with FFXI

[Seig345]

Basically what I said, very beginning of topic I don't see why they think that their character is them if that is the case, I think they need a break off the game.

I feel like they need a warning when they log in like they had with FFXI

I wanna say I remember version 1.x of FFXIV having that same warning when starting up the game, and it apparently didn't make it over to 2.0+.

[KokonoeAiyoko]

It's incredibly abhorrent to see someone conflate nudes of generic video game characters with actual cyber bullying, the likes of which ends lives.

Please get help. This behavior/topic is a red flag, a stop sign recommending against allowing reality to slip even further from your grasp. You are not your character, not unique. Not recognisable, none of our characters are. They cannot be. Especially when wearing nothing. It's impossible for someone to harass another person via taking racy pictures of their in game character and posting it elsewhere. No one would have any clue who they are looking at.

One could post a picture of anything and claim this is x or y person. It's unprovable and meaningless.

If someone posts pictures of actual you without consent then that is another story, but wake up call: Not only are you not your character, it's not your property, it's Square Enix's. You have no foundation for your complaint, it's just evidence that you're slipping. Slipping hard.

I don't care about people using mods but if someone is deliberately trying to take and show others pictures of your character with nudity to antagonize the person that most certainly is harassment.

[Vhailor]

I don't care about people using mods but if someone is deliberately trying to take and show others pictures of your character with nudity to antagonize the person that most certainly is harassment.

In fairness, based on what OP presented through the first four or so pages of this thread, there's no evidence whatsoever of people using nude character mods in this fashion. That said, obviously you're right - but I'd also point out that nobody needs an ERP mod to harass someone. There are any number of ways to antagonize another player, and the general resolution for all of them is enforcing rules of conduct the relevant platform has, be that the official forums, Reddit, your FC's website, or FFXIV itself.

The feel I get from this thread is that people are attacking a mod because it's a potential avenue for harassment. It's a misguided approach, akin to saying we should ban profanity and other words that can be used in a derogatory fashion.