Square Enix needs to make a add-on detector!

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I already know I'm going to get vitriol for this post, but I don't care because I will speak facts. If you use add-ons, Square Enix needs to implement a detector for those add-ons and you need to be penalized for cheating because that's exactly what you're doing.

Sadly, your prediction was correct. Because Square looks the other way, it’s up to the community to self-moderate, and it seems like more and more players embrace and deeply appreciate the value that plugins and addons bring to the game. And because raiding is run almost entirely by community pressure, there’s nothing we can do but yield to those who have more power and influence than us console/vanilla players. Anything that has a competitive advantage will be propagated quickly over the internet and any attempt to downgrade it, other than bySquare Enix itself, will fail to work.

We also need to realize that FFXIV is nine years old. This is no longer a new game where the code has yet to be explored and people find the vanilla experience refreshing. FFXIV is aging and addons are the most significant upgrade to the game’s backend since patch 2.0. Square Enix has deliberately refused to upgrade the backend or add significant QOL features. Whenever there’s a development void, players will fill it with third-party tools.

It happens to all aging games on PC. It’s sad that our favorite game has fallen by the wayside, but SE has put the power in our own hands to fix it. Maybe it’s time to be like WoW and pick up the slack. After all, with the three(!) new farm simulators that SE just announced for the Switch, they’ve got their hands full and don’t have time to maintain QOL for an old game like this.