Time to Quit

[Deo14]

The thing with your example, even if we assume the 20% is accurate, is that not everyone who comes to the game is concerned about housing.

There are enough people outside the 20% who want housing and can't get it, that they are frustrated by the current system. That is undeniably true. But it doesn't mean that every player feels the same way.

I had a house on my old server before I moved to Materia. It was fun to put together, but that was prettymuch it. Once it was done, it was nice to go into, like looking back at an artwork I'd done – but I also didn't feel like there was anything to actually do with it once it was done. I couldn't bring it cross-server with me and I'm not feeling like I want to do it over again.

Other people aren't going to want to do it at all, or they'll find that a private chamber in their FC house is enough.

In short, maybe only 20% can get a house, but that doesn't mean the whole remaining 80% are wanting one. It's certainly not what I expect out of a fantasy RPG, which is what the game is primarily marketed as.

When it comes to housing, there is serious problem with scarcity-induced demand, and I'm personally guilty of that. I wasn't interested in housing back then, but since I've heard how hard it is to get one, I jumped to new EU server when I had the opportunity and bought nice M house in Mist. I wasn't really doing much with it, since I wasn't really interested in housing at that time. So there are people that are interested in housing, but they cannot get one, yet there are plenty of people with houses that do not use them, but don't want to lose them either, just in case they'll like in it future or because they don't want to lose something so valuable.

[Jojoya]

That's odd. Since when is it illegal to not allow modding? Are you telling me that WoW is also banned in Japan? Are you telling me that FFXIV's own TOS opens them up to lawsuits? Are you telling me there's no way they can find mod users?

There's a big difference between detecting use of mods and installing software to a player client that would block those mods from launching.

They can detect if they choose to. They've stated that they're not interested in doing so for now because of privacy issues.

Blocking the mod from launching could leave them tied up in the courts for years and it probably would not end in their favor. They have no legal right to interfere in user agreements between other parties even if one party is violating their agreement with SE by using of the mod. Not even Blizzard attempts to block unauthorized mods from launching and their legal team dwarfs anything SE could afford to field.

Detect then ban? Yes. Block? No.