SFW modding should be officially allowed.

[Kes13a]

It'd be great, but as we saw with many of the people in here... they'd rather have spyware to ban modders than to actually find common ground (like The Elder Scrolls 2, Guild Wars 2, TERA, World of Warcraft, etc).

I would rather have spyware to ban botters. not concerned about people who use mods, though in all fairness, I think inclusion of mods leads to lazier development focus since at that point, why would SE have to improve anything if a mod already takes care of it? ideally, SE should deal with textures etc, which I am sure they would love to, to an extent.

what they should consider is a low res and high res install, start to separate out the potatoes. Once they do that, and more people start moving to high res, they can easily determine who is on what and start phasing out the low rez software.

[Steelbreaker25]

I wish SE would enforce the policy instead of playing it softly softly. There lack of enforcement has simply resulted in people assuming that's it's fine to use them.

That's because people play telephone with what's been said.

[TheMightyMollusk]

it would be nice, but highly unlikely.

not just SE but any game company would be unlikely to straight out tell parts of their player base "sorry, you have no choice, upgrade your computer"

You mean like when Stormblood launched and they told PS3 players they had no choice but to upgrade to the next console to keep playing?

[TaleraRistain]

it would be nice, but highly unlikely.

not just SE but any game company would be unlikely to straight out tell parts of their player base "sorry, you have no choice, upgrade your computer"

If they do anything, be released in small stages to try and pressure the potato with a monitor crowd to seriously consider moving into the 20-teens

MMOs will do this periodically from time to time by raising their minimum requirements. Most just try to keep a wide spectrum so they're never going to focus on just what is bleeding edge. And SE already cut PS3 players off, so they will do that even with console players.

[DPZ2]

Reshade is allowed. A community rep answered that question a long time ago

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...11#post1408111

It would be hard not to allow it, since it affects Direct X's interpretation of what's actually being sent by the game, and not the game messaging to the Direct X drivers itself. Graphics drivers like nVIDIA's FreeStyle do pretty much the same thing.

Neither of them actually change what's seen onscreen, just how the pixels are presented. Kinda like using an HDR package in real-time.

[Kes13a]

You mean like when Stormblood launched and they told PS3 players they had no choice but to upgrade to the next console to keep playing?

yes, and its highly likely that they had data showing that with the PS$ being out, that number of PS3 players was relatively small. lets face it, MOST console players upgrade relatively fast compared to pc players. PS3 came out in 2006, PS4 came out in 2013 and Stormblood was 2017. I think there was a reasonable expectation that the PS3 should be able to be dropped since it was outside a 10 year date AND that the PS4 had been out for 4 years. I think they should drop support for Windows 7 and earlier. In fact, they gave out Win 10 for free, so drop everything prior to Windows 10. at the VERY least, announce their intention to. Thankfully Endwalker is dropping Win 7, so hopefully we DO get changes. (that will affect Steam users with almost 9% still using Win 7, I smh)

[wereotter]

yes, and its highly likely that they had data showing that with the PS$ being out, that number of PS3 players was relatively small. lets face it, MOST console players upgrade relatively fast compared to pc players. PS3 came out in 2006, PS4 came out in 2013 and Stormblood was 2017. I think there was a reasonable expectation that the PS3 should be able to be dropped since it was outside a 10 year date AND that the PS4 had been out for 4 years. I think they should drop support for Windows 7 and earlier. In fact, they gave out Win 10 for free, so drop everything prior to Windows 10. at the VERY least, announce their intention to. Thankfully Endwalker is dropping Win 7, so hopefully we DO get changes. (that will affect Steam users with almost 9% still using Win 7, I smh)

Console launches are always a slow upgrade process as players tend not to upgrade until there are titles on the system they want to play. It took me a couple years after the PS4 launched before I bought one because there was nothing worth playing to encourage me to purchase the console. Even now, while I have a PS5 because I got contacted directly by Sony offering me to buy a unit directly from them, if not for that and the global shortage, there would be nothing on that console worth upgrading to it. FFXIV is currently the only game I play on my PS5. And to the Stormblood launch, I know at least a half dozen people from my FC at the time who had to purchase the new console specifically so they could continue playing FFXIV.

As to the original post topic, I think "SFW" is too subjective for the developers to go with. While the original poster says that it would just be graphical updates, there will eventually be someone who thinks that one mod is completely fine while another thinks its lewd or vulgar. Think maybe a mod that dramatically increases breast sizes. Or many a mod that adds blood to weapon hits. Square, in a smart attempt to avoid having to define where that line is, simply states all mods are against the terms of service.

[Riardon]

Funny thing how some SFW mods actually FIX some of the game's issues.
Like for example some poor textures.
Or giving actually interesting hairstyles and facial hair options.
SQEnix should copy some of them and make them official.