SFW modding should be officially allowed.

[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?

[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)

[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.

[Arrhin]

I'd be down for an "official" HD texture pack. But we know it isn't happening. I'd still be down though <.<

[Payadopa]

Yeah! And i should be allowed to modify the Mona Lisa! I mean...i paid the entrance fee to see the painting, that should give me the right to do whatever i want with it!

A painting is not a digital good that can be reverted back to it's original state...

[Maulclaw]

It'd be great, seeing the amount of content out there that's been created with good intentions and over the sake of creativy and such... but as we saw in that debacle of a thread before, there's plenty of people who disagree and would rather have spyware to ban modders altogether than to actually find common ground (like The Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, TERA, World of Warcraft, etc).

[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.

[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.