Quote Originally Posted by Rolder50 View Post
One of the newer plugins lets you sync your modded appearance with other people who have the plugin + have you as a friend on it. So not *everyone* can see you, especially not console players, but you can share to some degree.
I have no personal beef with mods like this, as they do not affect me or the game, but people should be aware of the risks they bring that the usual local-only mods may not subject them to.

For example, imagine a relationship with a glam-mod "friend" goes south, and they frame you (easy enough to do) and report you to SE for using a mod with FFXIV to distribute not just naked pictures but child porn.*
SE probably won't bother with an in-depth investigation, they'll just ban you for life.

And the risk may be worse if the mod allows the "friends" to load images you may never see onto your computer. Of course, local-only mods could do that too -- as does SE. But in the case of SE, it is probably easy to prove they put the offending images on your computer without your knowledge or consent.

*N.B. Where I live, the criminal penalty for possessing child porn is a mandatory 10 years in prison per violating image/video, run consecutively, with no possibility of parole.