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

[Corrupted]

I think they could loose money from them. Ones could use them to swap Mogstation outfits for normal gear. That cost them because one's using them wouldn't be buying them then.

You underestimate people and their need to show off to others. Also, back when I took a look at said mods, most of them use mogstation costumes as the base for the mod (you have to own it in order to install the mod) so unless you knew how to edit the mod files you had to have the costume bought.

[Lium]

Honestly, this is the only way they'll ever do anything about mods, although it'll probably end up being an all or nothing situation...

I think mare will eventually push them into that situation though. Eventually it'll become a situation of why buy cosmetics on the mogstore when you can install mare, sync with a bunch of other people and have a lot more options.

I'm already at the point where I feel that mare has gone too far, and if all the people posting on the forums about inclusivity actually cared about inclusivity, then they'd probably feel the same way.

I have a hope that eventually mare will evolve to the point where there'll be public servers that people can join for all the cosmetic mods they're wearing to show up to others on the same server, and that it'll get popular enough that new players are advocated to use that instead of bothering with in-game glam. Then SE will definitely take action.

Yeah, I was gonna say, the only mods I can kind of see them going after would be Glamourer and Mare for pretty obvious reasons that could affect their bottom lines.

But at the same time, it’s not like they don’t know about those mods. And I’m guessing there aren’t enough people using them to raise any red flags. Which I imagine is because this a sub game and not F2P. So the cash shop isn’t the primary thing keeping the game running.

If this was a f2p game then yeah, those mods would have been eliminated a long time ago lol.

[Payadopa]

This aged poorly. lol

[Kyrj]

I don't take anything Yoshi says seriously when his attitude about 3rd party tools has been for the most part "just don't talk about it" and now they want to dish out punishments but they're more like a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile under Limsa we have a rat problem with hundreds of bots just sitting there.

[Kalania]

I don't take anything Yoshi says seriously when his attitude about 3rd party tools has been for the most part "just don't talk about it" and now they want to dish out punishments but they're more like a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile under Limsa we have a rat problem with hundreds of bots just sitting there.

All they need to do is make going under the aetheryte kill you; then we'll have hundreds of dead bots.