Cheaters and Add-ons

[Masekase_Hurricane]

SE hasn't done anything about cheating since FFXI released, so it is nothing new. FFXIV v1 had a much worse problem the it does currrently but they did nothing then either. Instead they just deleted 90% of our gil at relaunch. So I am never surprised when cheater cheat.

I still think that games need to crack down harder on ppl who buy things with real money instead of those who sell things for real money. RMT can always make new accounts with throw away characters but actual players are much more invested and a perma ban would be a much more impactful deterrent that would help curb the problem much more efficiently.

LMAO flowerpot ban says otherwise

[Elizabetha]

The banal acceptance of many of these responses is so depressingly on point for FF14 right now.

I hear James Gandolfini in my brain on repeat: "Wha' kin y'do, uh?"

[Daralii]

The banal acceptance of many of these responses is so depressingly on point for FF14 right now.

I hear James Gandolfini in my brain on repeat: "Wha' kin y'do, uh?"

Addressing it would require time, manpower, and money. SE will not put any more than the bare minimum of any of those into XIV, so there's no point.

[Swad]

XIV and XI would be dead with anti-cheat.

[VeyaAkemi]

Honestly, my take on it is, I don't care, most of it doesn't affect me at all, and if it makes the game better in any capacity to some, then it's a net positive, so who gives a hoot?

[ACE135]

A question I was thinking about is, if there will ever be another Final Fantasy MMORPG in the future and the devs say they will activly work against cheaters, do you think many players will play it? At least of those that are using cheats and add-ons in XIV?

[Canadane]

There's plenty of players who play without cheats and if everyone who has an add-on got banned today, the game would go on just fine.

[caffe_macchiato]

Now I've also heard that the devs can't implement an anti-cheat or any program to check if someone is using something they're are not suppose to because of a certain japanese cybersecurity law that prohibits them for using anti-cheats in their game

unfortunately japan has laws against anti cheat software, specifically putting programs on your PC to track what you're doing

A lot of Anti cheat are essentially Root-kits and they are illegal in some jurisdictions.

This is patently incorrect. The source for this claim is this forum, specifically this post. There is no law against anti-cheats in Japan. In fact, several Japanese companies ship games with anti-cheat.

As everyone here knows, FFXIV is the most modder-friendly MMO on the market because of Square Enix. Mods and plugins can do everything from replace game assets to manipulate server packets, cheat game modes like Fall Guys, and automate the entire game from start to finish. In fact, every piece of PvE endgame content can be fully automated without any player involvement, including savage and ultimates. While regular PvP is mostly unaffected, the Fall Guys event has been completely overrun with cheaters. Square Enix has zero enforcement of game integrity. This is the only MMO where modding, botting and cheating of this scale is widely accepted.

And yet, for some reason, this is okay. The only sensible explanation is that FFXIV is just simply a lower caliber of game than most online games. The devs treat FFXIV like an indie GitHub project more than a AAA MMO.

By the way, check out the official FFXIV Community Hub on Steam for some great examples of our fine video game! And search "FFXIV screenshots" on Twitter for even more! No particular filtering here, this is just what shows up when you search for screenshots of our game. This is what you like.