Third party tools are a game design failing in a multi-platform game

[Jaquan]

I'm not putting words in your mouth. I asked you a question. This little symbol is called a question mark: ?
But since you're being so defensive about it I suspect I wasn't very far off.

You on the other hand have put very many words in vary many other peoples mouths to try and justify why plugins should be kept banned, by using arguments nobody ever made as reasons why the criticism is invalid.



A feature is something directly integrated into the game. That is not what anyone is asking for. Plus that's what makes them third party in the first place, if they were a feature it would be first party like the immersive sound experience ADDON that Square added. Bethesda is a good example of this, they directly integrated modding into their game and provided mod support, that makes it a feature that they are partially responsible for. Allowing people to just use mods without explicitly incorporating them into the game experience doesn't make it a feature or make Square Enix responsible for their use in any way.

Please understand that these arguments are not being made exclusively by people who want to be able to trash talk whoever they like, or cheat. They're also being made by players who just want to play the game with tools that improve their experience with no impact on other people, and you're essentially arguing for taking that improved experience away from them, for a reason I don't think you even truly know yourself.

First if all I apologize for jumping the gun. It was not justified behavior and I shouldn't have done this.

I do think your later part is going too far though. My personal perfect spot already existed here. "Fight Club" rules we adopted were good because they both prevented from mods becoming obligatory (got bad experience from WoW) while not actively going on a hunt for QoL/Fun mods. And I'm personally mad on all sides for breaking that status quo. At streamers for actively breaking the "Don't Show". At groups participating in World First race for doing the same and bringing SE attention. At 5chan "inquisition" for taking advantage of the situation to engage in pointless witch hunts. It's tiring, dumb and won't make anything positive for any of us