Modders did it to themselves

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As this person says, not only are credit card companies tightening their restrictions on adult content, but restrictions on adult content targeted at minors are also being strengthened worldwide (for example, the UK's Online Safety Act).

FFXIV's CERO rating is "C."

Therefore, in order for Square Enix to comply with FFXIV's CERO rating, it is obligated to regulate Mare, which has a mod sharing function and poses the risk of adult mod users sharing adult mods with minors in the game, in order to prevent minors from coming into contact with adult content.

Not only that, adult mod users seem to have no qualms about posting images of obscenely modified FFXIV games on Twitter and Instagram with the tag "#FFXIV."

People who don't play FFXIV would likely assume that images tagged with "#FFXIV" are provided by the official website.

By this logic they would need to regulate THEIR OWN GAME and start censoring content in it.





All in-game offical items, zero modding required. Minors can see it, anyone can tag it #FFXIV. In fact someone in another topic mentioned that the Reddit post linking to these images was BLOCKED for them because they were in the UK.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFXIVGlamou...tfit_did_i_do/

If this is blocked for anyone else here, the UK law is already technically cracking down on Square-Enix's own content.

For further irony, the Reddit post is from 3 years ago, roughly around the time Mare came out and yet, you wouldn't need it at all to see any player running around in this glam back then or right now.

So if this is a case of Square-Enix going prude and resorting to nannyism because payment processors or the UK demanded it, then I guess they're obligated to clean their own house even as they go after mods, unless their goal is again, to be wildly inconsistent and hypocritical. And keep in mind, it's not just limited to VISUAL sexual content, the things being banned by payment processors or the UK also includes sexual references in WRITING so even the game's script would need to be scrubbed to comply.