Quote Originally Posted by grinkdaboy View Post
i never understood why that square enix was so against mods. i feel like if they had their own curated mods (while of course maintaining their stance against nsfw mods/copyrighted material), this would help bring together the community.

and as for console users who might cry "not fair!", there could probably be a similar solution that allowed bethesda to bring mods to console

One major problem with this idea, quite apart from any potential legal problems, is that FFXIV is constantly developed and constantly changing. This means that mods will occasionally need to be changed when FFXIV is updated.
If there was a number of "curated" mods then the devs would have to retest each and every of those mods, each time FFXIV is updated. That's a whole lot of extra work.

Besides, why would SE want to support any mods? Extra work for them, and no upside as far as they are concerned.