Quote Originally Posted by Xlantaa View Post
I don't think so. People who use mods is a very small percentage of player base despite what people in this forums says. Even the people who uses it will shrug and continue playing without them. You also should count the people who plays on consoles, which cannot use mods even if they want. I would say only very small mount will actually quit if they can't mod.
ffxiv active playerbase according to a quick google is roughly 0 -

One of the simple tweak plugins has 3.3 million downloads, chat bubbles half a million, unsure on mare but going off how regularly people have it in their adventure plate probably somewhere of that order.

Taking a modest 50,000 as active users and a generous 1,000,000 as active players, that's still 1 in 20 or 5% minimum who use mods. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was 1 in 5 or 20% or as high as 1 in 3 or 33.3% using a more realistic set of values.

Of course I don't know how central this is to their enjoyment of the game, but it definitely looks like everyone involved including SE is playing with fire.