Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
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Honestly I don't know, the initial stance was don't tell, don't get caught, and everything is fine, then the mods kept evolving and all these debacles started happening, it's now the second time Yoshi had to intervene and have a blanket ban on all mods because of some black sheep...
I also can't go into details about shaders since I only have what the ps5 can output, it's not the same as having options in a pc.

Because of a few, now everyone suffers, blanket statement saying all mods are forbidden, and to those that go on about witch hunts and stuff, that was related to the first debacle were the community started mass reporting all the streamers using mods... Streaming with mods visible after the director of the game makes an official post stating all mods are forbidden, what do you really expect.
Same thing now, blanket statement with supporting evidence so noone can say there are grey areas, all and any mods are forbidden.
The best resolution would be to engage with the creators of the mods that serve as qol, and integrate them as part of the official game.
That would without a doubt remove all the excuses to use mods besides cheating.
On the other hand they might go the route of FFXI absolute virtue, wich was impossible to clear when it launched, and if anyone clears it... Well you know they were cheating...
At the end of the day the game belongs to square, they put a statement all mods are forbidden, if they implement some way of checking for said mods and start banning people it won't be pretty.
In terms of the financial side, you also have to take into consideration their culture and how honor is present within it, if it starts making headlines in Japan about overspread cheating, it might actually hurt them more than losing the money from the subs.
To many things for a console peasent like me to consider, but I do hope they move in the right direction