FF14 Twitch numbers suck for a reason

[Ilisidi]

How many are using GShade?.

Zero, find a different gotcha.

[Kaurhz]

The problem with a specific list is when you get banned for a reason that falls outside the scope of the list, that would still constitute an infraction otherwise, then people will only complain and moan that they still got banned for no reason, and that the reason they were banned fell outside that particular list. -- In a sense, they would be following the list, not the terms of service. Edit: They should only serve as examples and not an inexhaustible list.

The only thing they need to do is exercise more in the way of wording. e.g. "Third-party tools that interact with or modify in-game assets, resources or memory are strictly prohibited.!

Further, I feel like an issue such as a UI mod should not fall under an immediate ban or suspension, but should instead fall under a warning (minor infraction).

[Jojoya]

Why do people consider Twitch numbers important? Not every game is interesting when you're only a spectator and FFXIV isn't designed to be an eSport.

[Canadane]

Twitch is lame, twitch chat culture is the worst I've ever seen, and cheaters need to get permanent bans not slaps on the wrists for a few days.

[Neoyoshi]

Why do people consider Twitch numbers important? Not every game is interesting when you're only a spectator and FFXIV isn't designed to be an eSport.

It's a convenient visual metric for some folk to use i guess, but as other's have pointed out -Twitch is absolutely not representative of FFXIV; I personally find it akin to the Steam folks looking at the in-game user numbers that the steam client tracks; it's a metric for people to use in discussions, or arguments.

[Insertusernamehere]

It is not bad SE used to ban hammer every streamer (same level with Nintendo) with no apparent reason..
Later they noticed it is not helping advertisement and created "Materials Usage License": https://support.na.square-enix.com/r...la=1&tag=authc

I don't know what direction they are going this time and I don't care I am not streaming, I watch a few streamers but they rarely play FFXIV for various reasons.
If SE want to harm themself again with ban hammer it is their problem :3

[Faafetai]

It is not bad SE used to ban hammer every streamer (same level with Nintendo) with no apparent reason..
Later they noticed it is not helping advertisement and created "Materials Usage License": https://support.na.square-enix.com/r...la=1&tag=authc

I don't know what direction they are going this time and I don't care I am not streaming, I watch a few streamers but they rarely play FFXIV for various reasons.
If SE want to harm themself again with ban hammer it is their problem :3

This reminds me of the time the steam deck released and Gabe Newell gave them an endorsement for free I am pretty sure. He just enjoyed the game with his son and said it was fun. Right as the steam deck was released they pushed the update that broke the log in for steam users, and people were saying the steam deck is 'bad' and unsecure and all those russian hackers who only use linux will take over the game. buzz word buzz word using even the smallest add on that just increases the size of toast text and cooldowns on a hot bar will allow for those people a direct trip to satan himself.

Everytime recently at least final fantasy gets any increase in views or attention they do something financially suicidal. This time if you find the numbers for active players somewhere, as well as twitch viewer ship for when Ultimate dropped it spiked. Which would mean more people might want to come back and subscribe after seeing someone really digging into the hard end content. Some people I know like to watch prog streams while sitting with their characters in game and speak over discord having a good time. This is free PR and people will be more active as a result. What they did, go on a ban wave and find people on twitch to ban while they are in the middle of progging.

If I wasn't invested and seen that, I would have wondered what was wrong with that mmo, and never look back. Allowing people to mass report someone popular on any platform and call people out who have even the smallest of graphical modification. It just looks bad. I would think that game will just ban me if an entire fc of people who are just trolls could find people they just don't like the look of in game and get what they want by mass reporting. They will wait until you say something that could be misinterpreted or like has been done before to sprouts banned for spamming chat because they don't know you can hide emotes and are just testing them out at the very beginning when creating a character. I had to warn people getting into this game about disabling the chat dump emotes could create. People will look for reasons to be jerks and this is another one.

I don't even want to get into how dumb that material usage license sounds. It is like when google was trying to claim ever google document as their own property. They had to get rid of that clause I don't know if I saved it, but I remember not wanting to write anything for fear of them claiming copyright on my own works. I think deviant art was doing that as well unsure if they still are.

[VerdeLuck]

Why would you want to watch someone play this game when you can just play it yourself?

[Insertusernamehere]

Why would you want to watch someone play this game when you can just play it yourself?

For same reason watching / listening random person on TV / radio, entertainment. Game they play usually not important.

[CaptainLagbeard]

From the announcement

We have received requests from players asking that we define what tools are and aren’t permissible, but to do so would require an assessment of all third-party tools available on the internet, as well as all gaming devices and their functionality. Unfortunately, such an undertaking is physically impossible, which is why we decided to simply prohibit the use of all third-party tools and software.

Though personally since as I do imagine one of the more common ways people use addons is XIVLauncher's Dalamud, It probably wouldn't be too hard for them to look through their limited list of addons and for them to consider making a simple listing of what addons are allowed, everything else not on said list would be prohibited.

There are definitely things in there that fall under the category of "Use of tools that allow players to more easily complete content."

But on the other hand, there are other completely nefarious things like adding concept art to loading screens instead of having just a black screen.