Would you be opposed to SE implementing a program to scan for addons/parsers?

[Simple_Barghest]

I don't need to scream the psyop word games you and other plays are loud enough

Ah yes, visual mods and disability mods are "psyop word games."
I sure hope nobody related to you has any major disabilities. You seem like the type of person to scream at them to "get over it" when it comes to things like a crippled limb or visual cataracts.

[Semirhage]

The seething about parsers continues in this week's new form.

[solimiano]

I already have an anticheat on my game, its called PSN or playing on a console, lol.
From my point of view all mods are illegal and everyone using them should be banned, end of story.
If we are talking about qol improvements get a request put in, get enough of the community behind you and it will be added to the main game. And no, none of the options of act or whatever you guys/girls use will be added to the main game....
But I'm only a console peasent.
Cheat while you can soon enough you won't be able to play the game and I'll keep laughing

[ForteNightshade]

I already have an anticheat on my game, its called PSN or playing on a console, lol.
From my point of view all mods are illegal and everyone using them should be banned, end of story.
If we are talking about qol improvements get a request put in, get enough of the community behind you and it will be added to the main game. And no, none of the options of act or whatever you guys/girls use will be added to the main game....
But I'm only a console peasent.
Cheat while you can soon enough you won't be able to play the game and I'll keep laughing

People did that. We've been asking for years to have buff timers and damage types displayed. The last time someone brought up the latter, Yoshida gave a long winded excuse why it wasn't possible. Funny how after a plug showed it was quite possible they suddenly found the time to implement it into the game.

As for ACT. People want a way to track their damage, especially with a game design centered around enrages. Otherwise, we have no means of determining what want wrong or who's struggling with DPS. Not to mention, FFlogs gives life to the raid scene by essentially being a leadership board. Without it, BiS is literally meaningless unless an Ultimate is scheduled. Come 6.4, who cares about getting Savage BiS when none of the content released will ever demand anything remotely close to it? Parsing is what keeps people playing. They might not parse at a competitive level but it's still an individual achievement for a decent amount of raiders.

Considering "cheats" like ACT have been around for nearly a decade. I doubt very much people are worried about it.

[solimiano]

There is no reason whatsoever to use mods, if you need a feature or qol, put in a request to square, any and all mods are banned, it doesn't matter what they are or not, they re banned and so should be everyone using them

[Oldschoolegamer38]

There is no reason whatsoever to use mods, if you need a feature or qol, put in a request to square, any and all mods are banned, it doesn't matter what they are or not, they re banned and so should be everyone using them

Hear hear preach it!!

[Oldschoolegamer38]

The amount of BS i see from people on the threat to justify cheating is mindboggling and no one is buying it anymore...

[Absimiliard]

Japan has several laws that would prevent them from doing so even if they were so-inclined. Beyond that? Yes, yes I would mind. Anything designed to detect addons and the like would need to be unacceptably invasive. Moreover, while I don't have any need for them regardless, the vast majority of addons and third-party tools utilized by the playerbase are completely harmless. Barring someone just outright hacking (which the gil sellers seem able to do with impunity, though their activities do require a lot more than mere mods or harmless tools), nothing third-party tools do should be of any consequence to anyone.

Killing ACT will kill the raid community. Killing textools and similar things will kill the lion's share of the RP community, and it will take a sizeable chunk out of the general playerbase as well. There are plenty of hills out there to die on, but anti-mod sentiment is not one of them. They are the reason the game has lasted as long as it has, and eliminating them will not do it any favors.

[caffe_macchiato]

Killing ACT will kill the raid community. Killing textools and similar things will kill the lion's share of the RP community, and it will take a sizeable chunk out of the general playerbase as well. There are plenty of hills out there to die on, but anti-mod sentiment is not one of them. They are the reason the game has lasted as long as it has, and eliminating them will not do it any favors.

I just wish that FFXIV was good enough for people. I know we're not the best MMO and that WoW has more raids, features, etc. than we do. I know that this is only a side game for most people in between breaks for their main game. I know we don't deserve much and Square Enix is a struggling company.

But...for a brief period of time, people actually had faith in FFXIV. They didn't scoff at our lack of features, or trivialize our hardest content. They didn't trash the art style and replace it with imported abominations from Second Life. They enjoyed the game for what it was. They had fun. And some people on consoles still have fun! But that group is getting smaller as PC players get louder and more numerous. PC players seem like they hate large parts of the game, since they replace everything with third-party solutions. Are they really enjoying FFXIV, or are they enjoying what someone else made in Blender?

Maybe someday Square Enix will realize what made FFXIV good in 2013-2020, and rekindle that magic for the next MMO. But for now, I guess FFXIV is past its prime. Maybe the rest of us should put our time in a game that's actually respected.

[Raikai]

WoW has more raids, features

Maybe in a 'current' expansion, but although it might not be everyone's cup of tea depending on what it is, XIV usually keeps features from old expansions relevant all the time. I'm not playing anymore so maybe that is changed in Dragonflight, but afaik WoW used to discontinue every previous expansion's features as soon as it was over.