Third-party Tools Can Negatively Affect Players Not Using Them

[Saraide]

When you are so resistent to nuance you arrive at 'hroth and viera dont deserve hats, actually'. Incredible.

[Ivtrix]

When you are so resistent to nuance you arrive at 'hroth and viera dont deserve hats, actually'. Incredible.

Real talk hands down the hardliners like this are worse than the modbeasts

[HikariKurosawa]

When you are so resistent to nuance you arrive at 'hroth and viera dont deserve hats, actually'. Incredible.

Deserve? It just doesn't make sense for them to wear hats when you look at their head model. There are options that work for both races, just not the ones that don't make sense.

There's no nuance whatsoever, it just doesn't make sense for them to be wearing certain head gear options. Funny how you can twist the meaning of words though, doesn't make sense =/= doesn't deserve. Or maybe you can just only think in terms of entitlement since you mod the game to suit your desires?

[Mosha]

Deserve? It just doesn't make sense for them to wear hats when you look at their head model. There are options that work for both races, just not the ones that don't make sense.

I'm going to blow your mind! they can just cut earholes into the hat.

[HikariKurosawa]

I'm going to blow your mind! they can just cut earholes into the hat.

Even if this ever becomes a feature in the game, it's such a whataboutism you're trying to pull here that wouldn't even make sense most of the time. Most helms if you cut earholes into them, the ear is still going to be halfway in the helm which would both look and feel stupid for the viera. Hrothgar helms just don't make sense in most cases, when they do make sense they work as is.

It is part of the problem with cosmetic modding that people are doing this, but we're talking the smallest part of the problem. You act like it's not 0.00001% of modders that do it for helms on hrothgar/viera alone. Most of you are making insane changes to the aesthetic of the game and completely avoiding any reason to engage in the game world for the purposes of appearances. Most are using it to avoid to cash shop even if there are a small amount that use mods that are tied to cash shop purchases that solely exist as a whataboutism to make modding seem less harmful than it is.

It's not good, it will never be good. With AI coming into prevalence, you're not going to get away with it for very long. I'll tell you how anti-cheat could and will easily work without intruding on our privacy at all too: 1) game developers get an AI system that scans the internet for ffxiv related cheats and compiles a database, 2) anti-cheat references the database while you are playing the game, 3) computers detected using any program on the list are denied access to the game connection. 4) have a staff that oversees the database and makes sure it is only adding tools or files that actually mod the game.

That's just one way of doing it, and there are probably way smarter more efficient ways of doing it. This game is on a decline because of cheaters and square enix has to step in sooner or later before the game dies. If the game dies due to cheating, then it's all the same if there was no way of modding the game. It's like you selfish people would rather not play the game at all if you can't have your pathetic mods in it. So entitled that you should literally just be banned.

[Mosha]

It is part of the problem with cosmetic modding that people are doing this, but we're talking the smallest part of the problem. You act like it's not 0.00001% of modders that do it for helms on hrothgar/viera alone. Most of you are making insane changes to the aesthetic of the game and completely avoiding any reason to engage in the game world for the purposes of appearances. Most are using it to avoid to cash shop even if there are a small amount that use mods that are tied to cash shop purchases that solely exist as a whataboutism to make modding seem less harmful than it is.

yeah, that's fundamentally wrong lots of mods are tied to cash shop items and people don't use mods to avoid paying in the cash shop.

It's not good, it will never be good. With AI coming into prevalence, you're not going to get away with it for very long. I'll tell you how anti-cheat could and will easily work without intruding on our privacy at all too: 1) game developers get an AI system that scans the internet for ffxiv related cheats and compiles a database, 2) anti-cheat references the database while you are playing the game, 3) computers detected using any program on the list are denied access to the game connection. 4) have a staff that oversees the database and makes sure it is only adding tools or files that actually mod the game.

If it's detecting programs on a PC it's violating that person's privacy its invasive and YoshiP has been very clear that those types of anti-cheats are a no-go.

[ZiraZ]

The absolute state of femzen, stinky giraffes need to break the ToS and use illegal 3rd party cheats to look presentable

[Boblawblah]

The absolute state of femzen, stinky giraffes need to break the ToS and use illegal 3rd party cheats to look presentable

Not taking any prisoners tonight I see

[Stormpeaks]

Jesus this dude still ain't done screaming and arguing that the game is dying because of modding lmao

[HikariKurosawa]

I mean you can kick and scream all you want about anti-cheat but it's coming eventually. Technological advancements are inevitable with AI and square enix 100% does not want cheaters playing their game. There's no debate about it, whether you're cheating cosmetics, cheating in raids, cheating in pvp, cheating quests, cheating in fall guys crossover with movement speed hacks, you are not wanted here.

The gall you all have to openly defend cheating in the official forums is cute though. Just enjoy it while you can, because it is inevitable that people who cheat will be disabled.