A simple solution to combat all the cheating!

[Ranaku]

rather this not turn into another WoW where you end up spending more time updating QoL mods than you do updating the game.

they do need to hard ban the cheaters. but the 4 person team doing it, is not up to the task

That's why i suggested to implement a gamemaster team for EVERY datacenter and let them be able to actually ban people. Cheaters have to get banned that is for sure. But it is a double edged sword when you do it with anti cheat. One that would burn all goodwill they have left and all the fun communities players build around the game. Housing, roleplay, gposing and even people who create guides cause they won't have access to data anymore. There would be not much left to thrive in this hostile environment and in the end that would affect everyone cause SE would lose money and that would affect of course the budget of the devs and content.

Edit: Also what the heck are you talking about, players develop the mods and stuff like plugins not the XIV devs. So idk where you connect the devs updating the game and independent players developing mods but yeah maybe think again. xD