Re: Regarding the Use of Third-Party Programs and Player Safety

[Kazuke_Miso]

Honestly I don't think the weird-ness is actually exclusive to XIV, some other communities are just as bad... The only major difference is that Yoshida's stance on third party tools, etc., just allows for these things to go utterly unchecked in broad daylight because heaven forbid we risk upsetting players by taking a hard stance on topics that should have a hard stance. If there were a backbone and if they actually enforced their own ToS, then people wouldn't dare try this stunt, just as they wouldn't in many other games.

They do enforce their ToS, it's just against players using Ungarmax, someone saying "your DPS sucks", or people posting an ERP party under Other on PF.

Oh, but against the big boys? No, nah, never.

Just based on the fact that it wasn't a priority for them to fix it ASAP, it was always clear that this wasn't really a concern for them. And it sucks, really. I hate that I'm talking like this about a game that I used to love dearly.

This game genuinely feels like maintenance mode in all but name. The content might as well be pumped out of an AI with how regurgitated and formulaic they are. They're just going through the motions.