Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
Thank you for attempting to categorize speech bubbles in the same vein as the other 3rd party tools that the overwhelming majority of the playerbase regularly denounces. In any case, wielding the ToS as a weapon against people you don’t like is still behavior that I’m not willing to put up with.

The FFXIV community already has a strained reputation for being insular and hostile to those who do not tow the line like everyone else, and this is just another example of that. The more takes I read that stem from this controversy the more I want to go off and play FFXI or single player titles because I have very limited patience for the kind of behavior that this situation has let out of the woodwork.
For real. I don't know what happened to the XIV community or where these people came from. I am from XI and have been in XIV since it's beginning and I just don't understand how we arrived here. Even in FFXI, damn near everyone used Windower. Nobody batted an eye at that plugin. It was the same secret handshake, "don't ask, don't tell." Streaming mods isn't a good move and will only bring attention to you, but the witch hunting and the desire to see people who use effing chat bubble mods or want to wear hats on their Vierras, screaching that they are cheaters and must be banned is gross. Like on a RL scale, y'all suck and need to really evaluate yourselves. Bots and Hacks can go to hell. We all agree on that, but let Tiffany77 wear a hat. Who cares?