Mods and cheat engine

[Apeachs]

I see many using the Cheat Engine so they can make their characters sit anywhere they want, even the /doze emote on surfaces. Isn't it time to implement a system so such things can't be used? Also make it so the game files can't be modified.
And if Square Enix do allow mods, then they also should open the PlayStation for using mods so it's fair for more players.

[Sathona]

How does that affect you in a negative way exactly besides "im on PS so i cant do it".

Mods are a grey area, they dont care as long as you dont harm others, officially they will obviously say to not use them ofc.

Personally i dont even go through the effort to report ppl ledge sitting cause it doesnt affect my gameplay at all~

Most importantly, Yoshi P doesnt want to get in the way of ur privacy and know what you have installed on ur computer, so hes against anti cheats.

PS: Ledge sitting should become an actual emote at this point, but alas.

[NishaSetsuya]

How does that affect you in a negative way exactly besides "im on PS so i cant do it".

Mods are a grey area, they dont care as long as you dont harm others, officially they will obviously say to not use them ofc.

Personally i dont even go through the effort to report ppl ledge sitting cause it doesnt affect my gameplay at all~

Most importantly, Yoshi P doesnt want to get in the way of ur privacy and know what you have installed on ur computer, so hes against anti cheats.

PS: Ledge sitting should become an actual emote at this point, but alas.

It's not like they don't want to if the possibility is there, they just can't because of japanese law

[Sathona]

I dunno, I never see house sized breast here. Nor female Au Ra packing heat. Or man roes with literal man boobs. Twitter is a cursed, blighted land.

Twitter is blighted by weird mods and questionable fetishes, OF is blighted by misinformed folks or ppl who can but wont read.
Im not a fan of either honestly.

It's not like they don't want to if the possibility is there, they just can't because of japanese law

Well Yoshi P said they dont want to, im not denying the JPN laws, just saying what he said.


Also random thought, an NPC near the Sharlayan Marketboard is ledge sitting aaaa

[Saranade]

How does that affect you in a negative way exactly besides "im on PS so i cant do it".

Mods are a grey area, they dont care as long as you dont harm others, officially they will obviously say to not use them ofc.

Personally i dont even go through the effort to report ppl ledge sitting cause it doesnt affect my gameplay at all~

Most importantly, Yoshi P doesnt want to get in the way of ur privacy and know what you have installed on ur computer, so hes against anti cheats.

PS: Ledge sitting should become an actual emote at this point, but alas.

It's people with your attitude that make this game ruined with third party tools. This translates into end game content, which is so toxic you're lucky to find a "TOS friendly" clear even on youtube. I had to take a break for a while from this game because the third party people such as yourself are everywhere and obnoxious.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

It's people with your attitude that make this game ruined with third party tools. This translates into end game content, which is so toxic you're lucky to find a "TOS friendly" clear even on youtube. I had to take a break for a while from this game because the third party people such as yourself are everywhere and obnoxious.

not all tools are evil just depends on who uses them. Some make the game more eye pleasing and can change the vanilla aspects like decorating

[Saranade]

not all tools are evil just depends on who uses them. Some make the game more eye pleasing and can change the vanilla aspects like decorating

The tools aren't evil in and of themselves, its completely dependent on the personal conduct of the user. Not to mention some of these "tools" are "free" - you have to ask yourself what information you're giving to some third party to run them. I'd say Square Enix has your best interest in mind in regards to that. Also - its not a grey area - its a full blown TOS violation regardless of platform, and yes it does make it unfair for those who play by the rules.

[ForteNightshade]

The tools aren't evil in and of themselves, its completely dependent on the personal conduct of the user. Not to mention some of these "tools" are "free" - you have to ask yourself what information you're giving to some third party to run them. I'd say Square Enix has your best interest in mind in regards to that. Also - its not a grey area - its a full blown TOS violation regardless of platform, and yes it does make it unfair for those who play by the rules.

Yoshida has literally said parsers are a grey area because he knows how much the high-end raid community values them. He may not like them but in a game entirely centered around DPS, they're not going anywhere. The raid scene as a whole would die overnight if all these third party programs were banned and the dev team is well aware of that. Hence why they do nothing about them unless it's made blatantly obvious.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

The devs have stated they do not want to start running system monitoring software on people's machines.

[KageTokage]

They don't need invasive monitoring software to punish people if they're doing things that are blatantly impossible and easily observable.

Granted, this particular instance is really harmless, but I don't think it's necessarily something they should be allowing to slide if someone does decide to report it as it would be actively refusing to enforce the ToS.