Quote Originally Posted by Melorie View Post
Look at the community built around g-shade, and creating their original characters exactly like they would want... There's a lot of room for creativity with these things, so acting like they're all bad isn't doing anyone favours. Seems over the top imo.
GShade (and other ReShade variants) is kind of an odd duck with regards to third-party software, since the devs have explicitly said—on these forums, even—that they have no problem with it, though they have asked in the past that folks not include the copyright line that the game usually includes in images, just so folks don't mistake it for the stock game. Nvidia's ReShade variant—Freestyle—even lists FFXIV on the officially-supported-software page; if you've got an Nvidia card and are running an even remotely recent version of GeForce Experience, Freestyle's already enabled in-game and you can pull up that particular ReShade variant with Alt+F2 (unless you've changed the keybinding, obviously).

So those are less "unauthorized third-party software" and more "authorized third-party software". I mention this only because that renders them (mostly) irrelevant to the topic at hand.

(Though in the interests of full disclosure, I'm also a contributor to GShade; I write shaders that are included with it and have made bundled presets that are also included. So where my interest in most of the tools folks have brought up in this thread is academic, that one I'll confess to having some actual direct relevance to me.)