Why graphical mods are bad for PvP.

[MiniMel]

This post is bad and you should feel bad.

[KageTokage]

Other tools already exist to cheat in PvP and you don't need to make the effort to mod your game to use them.

Basically this.

People aren't going to resort to graphical mods that provide little benefit when they can get away with far more blatant forms of cheating without being punished.

[Asmrran]

pvp bots are still an issue, this on the other hand is not really an issue. What really wrecks havoc on my pvp experience is being on a team with 7 other bots lol

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Yeah, but if you were a sniper in a FPS game and you relied on being hidden, knowing that someone out there could alter your character to be bright green would heavily reduce your chances of staying hidden. Again, that's a FPS game and not FFXIV, but it's an example. Just because you don't look green on your screen doesn't mean your enemy can't use that to their advantage.

And this is why most FPS games have built in checks to ensure players can't do that. In fact, this very discussion came up with Mass Effect 3 due to the prevalence of modding BioWare games. Their servers checked your PCConsoleTOC.bin. If it were in any way altered, you were likely going to get suspended or banned outright depending on the circumstances. As FFXIV does not have such concerns given how PvP works, this is a non-issue.

[JackHatchet]

I almost wonder how Elder Scrolls does it. I never looked into it, but I remember Skyrim having a vibrant modding community.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I almost wonder how Elder Scrolls does it. I never looked into it, but I remember Skyrim having a vibrant modding community.

Easy, its a single player game built with mods in mind.

[JackHatchet]

Someone said Mass Effect 3 was having issues, because people were used to modding single player games and then there was a multiplayer component. I was mentioning Elder Scrolls as in the actual MMO part of the franchise. If people playing the MMO are conflicted because they're used to modding in Skyrim.

[Enlial]

uh, the only thing that might be an issue I could think of would be that ppl might mod the walls in feast to be semi transparent ... maybe? Thats been an issue in other games. That pales in comparison to what people are already doing with parsers, though.

[JackHatchet]

Are you talking about how parsers can call out mechanics similar to Warcraft or are they capable of doing other things now?

[Enlial]

Are you talking about how parsers can call out mechanics similar to Warcraft or are they capable of doing other things now?

Sort of, more like tracking enemy cooldowns. Its always been a big problem