Increasing number of players using 3rd party tools

[Goji1639]

I'd say it's a legitimate cause for concern.

SE doesn't support add ons and they're not actually legal to use, but that won't stop the community at large from requiring them if they become a common crutch for high tier content.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I'd say it's a legitimate cause for concern.

SE doesn't support add ons and they're not actually legal to use, but that won't stop the community at large from requiring them if they become a common crutch for high tier content.

They've been in use since coil.

Nothing has changed.


The only ones people got real up in arms were the radars for hunts. That really pissed people off, and rightfully so.

[KageTokage]

The only ones people got real up in arms were the radars for hunts. That really pissed people off, and rightfully so.

Those still exist and are arguably more disruptive now because they're part of the basic functionality for some of the most popular botting programs, which means that if a S rank spawns in the same zone as a bot, anyone who has access to the associated discord its relays are being sent to will immediately know about it.

[Catwho]

Those still exist and are arguably more disruptive now because they're part of the basic functionality for some of the most popular botting programs, which means that if a S rank spawns in the same zone as a bot, anyone who has access to the associated discord its relays are being sent to will immediately know about it.

There's actually a bot free way for a team to predict where an S rank will spawn. It involves killing the B rank in every possible spawn point you can find (and ignored the A ranks if they're up since they also share a spawn point.) If there's a place the B rank doesn't respawn, that's the spot reserved for the S rank when the conditions for the spawn are met.

Thing is, it's a LOT of leg work, so there's a reason usually a whole Discord channel is involved in the process.

[Goji1639]

They've been in use since coil.

Nothing has changed.


The only ones people got real up in arms were the radars for hunts. That really pissed people off, and rightfully so.

They've never really been a big part of this games culture.

Add ons are a MASSIVE part of WoWs culture, though, and the WoW community is transitioning to FFXIV in not small numbers. Since there's nothing really stopping the use of add ons in this game, besides some mild inconvenience and an official/unofficial stance against them, I could see a culture shift happening.

[Caitlyn]

They've never really been a big part of this games culture.

Add ons are a MASSIVE part of WoWs culture, though, and the WoW community is transitioning to FFXIV in not small numbers. Since there's nothing really stopping the use of add ons in this game, besides some mild inconvenience and an official/unofficial stance against them, I could see a culture shift happening.

WoW got tons of add-ons. FFXIV only have... a hand full?
I wouldnt make a big deal about people who using ACT for themselves. Live and let live.

[Sotaris]

This is more of the line of fearmonger to me. ACT, UI mods, Reshade etc has been a thing for nearly a decade.

WoW got tons of add-ons. FFXIV only have... a hand full?
I wouldnt make a big deal about people who using ACT for themselves. Live and let live.

This. The fact SE don't even offer us a proper parser to guage our own performance is why many use ACT. Not to exploit or get a upper edge over others.

Last few seasons of Feast introduced many physical ranged players that are using some kind of 3rd party programs that automatically interrupt opposing sides melee/ranged limit breaks within milliseconds. Players cant even see their LB animations/cast bars start and they are already interrupted by those players

That's a botting application. This thread seem to me just be about client side changes (UI mods) and ACT.

[Ayuhra]

They've never really been a big part of this games culture.

Add ons are a MASSIVE part of WoWs culture, though, and the WoW community is transitioning to FFXIV in not small numbers. Since there's nothing really stopping the use of add ons in this game, besides some mild inconvenience and an official/unofficial stance against them, I could see a culture shift happening.

Extremely important difference here is WoW has had addons since forever, it's always been compatible with them. And starting around Wrath of the Lich King nearly everyone had Deadly Boss Mods which Ion has said he now designs around since top guilds will of course have DBM.

In other words WoW's encounters are designed with DBM in mind (doable without but much more doable with). That sort of thing will never happen here.

[kaynide]

They've never really been a big part of this games culture.

Add ons are a MASSIVE part of WoWs culture, though, and the WoW community is transitioning to FFXIV in not small numbers. Since there's nothing really stopping the use of add ons in this game, besides some mild inconvenience and an official/unofficial stance against them, I could see a culture shift happening.

While FF devs have mostly been hands off as long as plugins aren’t disruptive, there is a clear stance on use of 3rd party stuff. Since the majority of SE’ JP players are console based, they will absolutely protect that plug-in free environment if necessary.

Not to say there will be some massive threat or whatever… just that WoW players could very well be in for a rude awakening if they get too carried away, especially streamers who might not even realize their breaking rules. (As in they didn’t really read ToS or just think FF doesn’t care about 3rd party apps)

Like they don’t care if you alt tab to use google. They similarly wouldn’t care if you did texture swaps (like replacing your map files with highlighted areas, but if you started showing it off on a stream….could be bad.

[Penthea]

They've never really been a big part of this games culture.

Add ons are a MASSIVE part of WoWs culture, though, and the WoW community is transitioning to FFXIV in not small numbers. Since there's nothing really stopping the use of add ons in this game, besides some mild inconvenience and an official/unofficial stance against them, I could see a culture shift happening.

I do wish more WoW players would try to use the ui that is given to them instead of going straight to using add-ons. Sure if someone uses the base ui a lot and feels something is missing then go ahead and get it. However I have seen quite a lot who search for add-ons when they barely have started the game, complaining it looks too different to what they're used to...of course it looks different. IT'S A DIFFERENT GAME. I was a hardcore player in WoW and I can use the base ui of FFXIV just fine. All I had to do was get used to a new game. It's not complicated.

The worst is when I see someone who has add-ons that actively hide important things in the ui. I saw an ex-WoW player streaming and their ui was set up in a way that they could only see three buffs/debuffs on each party member...if they ever heal they will quickly find out what a terrible idea that is. Sigh. I saw someone else hide their enemy list and then complain that they can't see the castbars of anything that isn't their target lol.

I just want players to give the ui a chance and give themselves a chance to get used to it instead of immediately thinking something is wrong with it for the simple fact that it looks different.