Quote Originally Posted by Packetdancer View Post
There are a handful of exceptions; they did actually more-or-less greenlight ReShade (and its derivatives). This forum's search engine is godawful, so I don't want to go try to find the thread right now, but there's a thread here in the English forums from several years back where they detailed their position; I've linked it before, so presumably it can be located again if anyone's really determined.

Admittedly, it wasn't so much "we give this our blessing" as they said that while technically it would be against a strict reading of the TOS they would never enforce it, since ReShade provides no gameplay advantage -- save maybe "increasing contrast to help colorblind folks see mechanics" -- and generally just gets used artistically, and so to feel free to enjoy it.

And they actually gave Nvidia's ReShade fork (Freestyle) the blessing officially; if you go to the Freestyle page on Nvidia's site, you'll see FFXIV listed in the officially-supported games for Freestyle. So if you have Nvidia Experience installed, you've already got ReShade -- or Freestyle, anyway -- active while running FFXIV right now; just hit Alt+F2 to bring it up in-game!
That's true, though in context of this thread specifically we would both agree it's not the case aye?

I mean if we were going for most accurate I probably should have mentioned reshade, I do recall they said that 'one' is fine lol, but certainly in case of this thread saying you use any one of the tools mentioned is grounds for punishment.