Third-party Tools Can Negatively Affect Players Not Using Them

[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.