Please stop destroying the playerbase + fix blacklist

[CidHeiral]

Seems questionable whether someone actually liked the game if they're quitting solely because they can no longer do something that was strictly prohibited in the Terms of Service to begin with.

[TBerry]

It's infortunate, but not a game-breaker. It was just a tool to see others, and add flavor to a character, at least for sane RPers.

Honestly I don't have much sympathy for modbeasts.Mods don't solve everything especially not in RP. If you exclude others because they didn't see how Ultraawesomesupercalifragilisticexpialidocious your character looks then that's a you problem and shallow. Probably the kind of crowd that sits in an Onsen with full armor because they didn't even bother changing glamour plates.
That said, the anti-mare crowd gets on my nerves with gloating how much better they are.

[Heavenchild]

Today I heard that they’ve actually started suspending people in-game for actively talking in public chats about mods. Maybe at this point they just want
to see how many players are still around for how the game really is. I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I think they’re moving in the right direction.
The rule also always was: Be quiet when you use the stuff. It was broken like it was not there anymore.

This game can never heal or truly improve if such a huge part of the playerbase is basically playing 'another game' inside the game. Whether they’ll
really take the chance to improve things themselves in the near future, I don’t know, and honestly my hopes are low. But I do believe the shutdown
of Mare is important to create a foundation where again all players can actually come together in this game.

[Nero-Voidstails]

a yes please keep breaking the ToS that you all agreed to good idea yes. overall I think it's a good thing for the RP community because now everyone is on the equal field meaning no more discrimination on people who play on console.

[TBerry]

a yes please keep breaking the ToS that you all agreed to good idea yes. overall I think it's a good thing for the RP community because now everyone is on the equal field meaning no more discrimination on people who play on console.

Purely relying on mods is just lazines and bad practice, IMO.

[Nero-Voidstails]

Purely relying on mods is just lazines and bad practice, IMO.

I do agree yes because oh god it was hostile >~>

[Antharaes]

All this drama over an illegal mod...really.

[Kohashi]

While I understand that the TOS was technically broken, I still think this was a bad decision. I've heard assumptions that Mare was removed because it collects player data in a similar way Playerscope did. But this issue will persist until player IDs are properly protected from within the game itself. Everything else is just a bandaid, and deep down, I think we all know that.

It's pretty clear that SE showed they are simply incapable of addressing the issue without probably going towards either more drastic changes or breaking even more stuff in the process.

Rolling back the update on how the Black List function does not seem to be a solution for whatever reason.

[Kaurhz]

The number is not so big as to destroy the player base, but when coupled with already dwindling numbers, that have dwindled significantly enough as to raise questions in meetings.. Not exactly the brightest of ideas.

On the note of 'healing this game', like... Simmer down, seriously LOL... This game probably relies on third party, just as much as what the community inhabiting this game do.