Is Square losing Money due to 3rd party tool usage?

[CelestiCer]

" No " Think of the following tools being denied... If you know you know.

• Mare/Pen/Glam plugins for character modding
• Anam posing and anything NSFW ERP nudity
• Non-combat QOL plugins
• Universalis and the Marketboard plugin
• ACT stops working. FFlogs activity drops
• All QOL Raid tools. Raiding activity drops
• BurningDownTheHouse for Housing decoration
• Technically Gshade approved by Yoshi

And many more tools, if Square made a mandate to truly put their foot down and deny all of it instead of shaking their finger? Square could lose subscribers who love using them and Square knows this.


Players create upgrades and fixes " That Square Won't "
It costs money to fix or implement anything, letting players do it themselves is free. Think of the recent " 6.31 Ninja Mudra bug Fix ", made in less then a week vs Square not implementing a fix in weeks. XIVAlex or NoClippy, to help players with bad pings. Hrothgar hair issues, customized glamours, Body modifications etc... players will fix and upgrade any part of the game themselves. Square not tackling all of this? is a sign that they aren't losing money at all to Third-party tools which is the bottom-line of a Company.


What matters more to Square is " Losing Face "
Blatant usage/advertisement of third-party-tools gets hammered. Raiding-tools, addressed with a public letter, yet the Billboard debacle nor the continuous sharing/selling/usage of Mods and NSFW material isn't addressed as directly and openly ever. I'm sure for good reasons, because this all could sadden the Yacht owning NFT promoting executives, passionate Developers and Yoshi. Having players clear Ultimate content that was so hard to make through cheating? obviously sucks.


What should Square do about " Third-Party tools? "
Denying is a loss of subscribers and money. Denying 1 part over another? creates division in the player-base due to favoritism. Then again if that division isn't costing them money? the Executives probably wouldn't give a S*ht. The best thing they could do is to implement as many QOL changes to upgrade the FFXIV experience without it going against how they intended the game to be played. Both Square and the players know playing FFXIV with third party tools is like playing it on crack regardless of what content or what activity the players decide to do.

-- Then again this is my Hot-take --
Do you think Square is losing money
due to 3rd party tool usage?