Asmongold on NSFW mods

[xxmiamorecadenza]

Uhh, in Limsa Lominsa. There were people saying sexual things right off the bat...

It's Ul'dah for us. It's only been getting worse since we ran out of apartments.

Legit just go to the royal areas where the foot traffic is limited. There's a solid chance you'll find two naked bunnies or cats.

And then there's 'the wall.'

[CrystalPenguin]

It's Ul'dah for us. It's only been getting worse since we ran out of apartments.

Legit just go to the royal areas where the foot traffic is limited. There's a solid chance you'll find two naked bunnies or cats.

And then there's 'the wall.'

I'll make sure to avoid and travel quickly through Ul'dah. I wish they could just do this over /tell, linkshell, or their homes or apartments. I don't want to be seeing this stuff to be honest.

[Maulclaw]

Mods have been around for ages across all sorts of games and genres, and there's a considerable sized community for it. Some MMOs have even embraced that sort of thing; to some extent (like The Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2 with its officially supported addons). People are free to do as they please as long as it doesn't hurt anyone involved. Streamers and the media will always try to make a big deal out of these things, and it's best to just ignore it. It's not like all mods are bad, since the majority is still relatively SFW with a big focus on cosmetics and client-side fixes or QoL features.

Anyway, people acting lewd and out of line is something that would happen with or without these sort of things... I used to play TERA a lot back in the day. The game had chat moderation and the sorts, plus not a hint of a modding community by any means. Sexual harassment and blatant displays of public ERP happened all the time (even by people who just wanted to be edgy about it).

[Lenivy]

That's exactly the purpose of signing an agreement, wut.

Specifically here:

FINAL FANTASY® XIV
Materials Usage License
Effective March 24, 2021

(...)
Copyrighted and Trademarked Materials
This License applies to the following Materials:

All art, text, logos, videos, screenshots, images, sounds, music and recordings from FFXIV;
(...)
General Guidelines
These guidelines apply to any and all use of the Materials:
You agree not to use any Materials in conjunction with any of the following: unapproved Square Enix assets; counterfeit merchandise; pornography; unlicensed Square Enix music available for streaming or download, or links to unlicensed Square Enix music available for streaming or download.

Nudity is not pornography, nor is that "erp"untill parties start to fully describe actions wich include sexual intercourse.

[Rinhi]

"you're a pearl clutching puritan only in it to win moral points if you don't like that creeps create nsfw mods of underage characters and lalafells"
do some of you people even read what you type before sending it or do you not realize how effed up it is to defend actually illegal modifications that break the laws of several countries and subsequently blame the people that take an issue with it?
just because kids and teens can easily find porn on the internet, that doesn't make it okay for similar content being proudly displayed in-game by people who can't keep it in their pants for more than 10 seconds, like, what kind of backwards argument is that? even if it'd be an effing AO game it'd still break the TOS, unless it's stuff like SL, because developers and publishers usually do not want to be associated with pornography of it's characters, especially if they're underage

[Reap00]

One thing I don't understand about all of this modding is how blatantly people display what they are doing. Streamers show ACT/XIV launcher and say hey guys its ok as long as we don't blah blah. Yoshi has specifically said it isn't OK. People post all kids of lewd garbage of XIV characters all over the place as well. If you are going to do these things why not simply be discreet about it so you don't have to push their hand? I don't understand the need to keep pushing the boundary. If they do clamp down on it one day you will only have yourself to blame.

[Maulclaw]

This thread's such a trainwreck.

[Caurcas]

Never before have I seen such defense for illicit activity.

[Sclair0]

It'd be pretty hard to police cosmetic mods wouldnt it? You'd basically need spyware. But yeah giving out Cease and Desist orders to people making completely lewd mods of underage characters or lalas would be fine by me.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Every time I convince myself I have no faith left in humanity to lose, I see a thread like this, and I lose another notch I didn't even know I still had.