Proposal: A Solution to Third Party Tool Problem

[hotakako]

I believe that is what the Lodestone article is sharing about.

Guess they would be priortizing on upgrading and changing the in-game UI.
Pretty sure they already know what are the popular ones being used, I think some others have opened threads to showcase the third party UIs.

My ultimate guess is that they want to ensure that the console players won't lose out in terms of UI usability.
Currently, the console players do not have the ability to tap into these tools to modify their UI like the way PC players do.

[Reelos]

Guess they would be priortizing on upgrading and changing the in-game UI.
Pretty sure they already know what are the popular ones being used, I think some others have opened threads to showcase the third party UIs.

I mean yeah, What I am mostly going on about is stuff like lists for crafters which count up whenever they gather a certain material for their current craft.
So an external organise tool that use ingame data to keep track of stuff, so stuff that currently is widely used and in regard of reading data breaks the terms of service.
I know that Square has tried to impement some functions, but they aren't close to the third party stuff, from what I gather.

Why not allow those kind of tools by giving them an interface to do so?
As in, they already exist, are more advanced then what is given ingame rn, while not impacting gameplay itself and are more adaptive cause they are not bound to patches from square itself.
And implementing an interface is less time consuming and complicated than to respond to small little tweaks that are sometimes needed when something new is implemented or an idea from a player is rather nice.