Another World First Clear got disqualified due to "Cheating"

[Zakuyia]

Ill put this here like or not. Where ever there is competition ppl will always cheat. Its just how it is. If this is surprising its pretty amazing were still shovked. Fool me once shame on me fool me twice shame on you fool me......Sorry its just how it is. World first should no longer be a thing. Its been proven time after another.

[TaleraRistain]

The red dot memes have been pretty hilarious. I saw a screenshot where someone cosplayed their character as the red dot. Even did the hill gradient on their leggings and everything.

[DynnDiablos]

If you have to use mods/plugins in order to play this game - I don't find you impressive. The game was designed that any fight/content can be done successfully without ANY of the things PC players love to tack on. I would be much more impressed by savage, ultimate raid clears by console players than a PC player using every plugin under the sun.

[Avoidy]

Imagine being favored by the devs in the way that raiders are atm. DT has been frontloaded with so much stuff designed to appeal to them; if you're not into raiding, you can basically pound sand for 8 months but if you enjoy being in a room doing the synchronized dance with 7 other people, you've got extremes, unreal, savage, ultimate, and chaotic soon(tm). And if you're obsessed with repetitively rerunning the same content over and over again for a bigger number, they've got your back there as well; they've meticulously standardized every job to the point where there's like a tiny difference in output between them and they all play in fundamentally similar ways. If there was a job that didn't bend to this meta, or had elements of RNG sprinkled in, they axed that real quick in the name of standardization. All this, all for you! Raiders eating good! Mmmm, yummy yummy! Game plays like bland oatmeal and everything feels repetitive af but at least the high end parsers obsessed with biggernumber are happy!

And then they cheat on stream
LMAO
probably won't even be banned
meanwhile, everyone else who just wants a foray or a relic or housing upgrades or a deep dungeon or a variant dungeon or something like that, please wait until mid 2025 or beyond! sorry! we spent so much time building content for people who can't play without viewing the arena from space while microsoft sam reminds them to apply their DoT. Story is garbage this time around too, but please don't retire! Have fun doing expert roulette for 8 months! Please run Jeuno again!

[IOwn92FCHouses]

Reading this thread is spicy! I'm enjoying it quite a bit. So many chipped shoulders. So many generalizations and exaggerations. I'd say a lot of hyperbole, too.

All to have it not matter at the end of the day, because Square is bleeding money, so actively doing something about it will harm one of their few bottom lines that is still in the black. I say, embrace it! Improve your gameplay experience with mods that fix things square doesn't or can't fix. Get a meter to help show you areas where you can improve in combat. Even get the small dot that doesn't actually do anything once you have learned the dance.

The world is your giga modded oyster. End of the day, you'll never know who uses and who doesn't.

[brinn12]

At this point, I believe leaks are done on purpose. It didn't start with TOP. TEA and DSR world first had players using third party tools, and VODs are still up on Youtube to prove it. Reality is, most streamers are using some form of third party tool to gain advantage in raid. They just don't show it on stream.

Square's stance on this has to change. If they're against every mod, start scanning for mods and banning people. Or would this be spending money to stop something that generates profit? I wonder.

[Schan]

Square's stance on this has to change. If they're against every mod, start scanning for mods and banning people. Or would this be spending money to stop something that generates profit? I wonder.

From my understanding in Japan it's illegal for companies to scan... "privately owned"? computers so there's that.

[brinn12]

From my understanding in Japan it's illegal for companies to scan... "privately owned"? computers so there's that.

At the very least we should have a definition for what's harmful to the game. Defining every mod as illegal and never taking any countermeasure to ban people, outside of leaked screenshots, is always going to cause the situation we have.

[Bellybell]

At the very least we should have a definition for what's harmful to the game. Defining every mod as illegal and never taking any countermeasure to ban people, outside of leaked screenshots, is always going to cause the situation we have.

If they did that, people using it will still twisting their words to suit themselves. It just doesn't matter.

[ReynTime]

Someone who complains they have to learn how to adapt to a challenge in a videogame like it's the most absurd expectation ever shouldn't be leading a raid party in the first place. Someone who is afraid of being pointed out by the leader if they under-perform again and again shouldn't be raiding either.

In all the statics I've joined in 12 years of playing this, we never needed ACT. It's not that complicated to clear raids without it if your party doesn't have anyone who thinks they need to yell at everyone nor any snowflake who thinks their heart will turn to dust if the party tells them to improve their dps. You know. All you need is a static of mature adults who don't expect a fast clear time.