Quote Originally Posted by Goji1639 View Post
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.