Quote Originally Posted by Lieri View Post
You missed something here. When you said you dont want the game to turn into WoW, it is not WoW. Using 3rd party tools are against the rule and XIV has no official way of making those tools work other than programmers with a lot of time on their hands injecting something into the game illegaly. Yes it is illegal but there are so many ways and believe me there will always be a way to modify game clients.

WoW on the other hand is completely different, they added LUA in the game that lets devs to build addons on top of their game. Yes. They provided it, encouraged it. So you can never compare the two when it comes into addons/mods although there will always be addons and mods.
The other thing that people ignore is that WoW is PC/Mac only. Every player has equal ability to download and use the third party tools if they choose.

FFXIV also supports PS4/PS5 in addition to PC. Those players do not have the ability to use the third party tools and that creates an unfair environment when PC users can. Perhaps it would have been better for SE to segregate the different platforms into different servers and prevent players from using both platforms on the same server, though certainly I would have missed out on making a lot of friends with those using the other platform.