Official Statement: Regarding Mod Usage and Culture

[DivineP]

Overall, I consider Yoshi's statement to be a win. Sure I find it lame that one of SE's reasons for banning the mod was because it reduced the profitability of the cash shop. But the fact is that the mod enabled users to show adult content to anybody else using the mod including minors. Unregulated pornographic content distributed nearly without limitation is bound to encounter certain legal obstacles depending on location, so good on you SE for stepping up and taking the laws of customer countries into consideration.

Completely agree with this.

This mod has been in circulation for what 3 years? It shares mods that ppl use to run around with massive breasts, arse and genitalia? What is this game rated again?

I bet many dread to think.. but you've most likely used this mod with a MINOR. That is the sad truth.

Oops..

[Yumarox]

Personally I do not find anything wrong with what was said around the cash shop, like a few others on this thread. If you do not want to support it don't buy from it, but do not try and have your cake and eat it too by modding those items for yourself for free. Making cash shop items an off limits thing for even mods seems like more than a reasonable request also things like ultimate items add to that list as well. These both seem fair and I know I have experinced a few people say smugly how ultimate weapons don't matter if they can mod them in. Having these things as off limits is fair and reasonable.

[Batbrat]

I don't understand the cheering coming from either direction, he didn't say anything he hasn't already said before. Nothing happened. This is like the third time he's made this exact statement-the last time word for word, this time broken down for those without access to hooked on phonics. We already knew all this.
Good reminder, I guess???

[Boblawblah]

Let's be honest here

[ZXN]

Yoshi-P's statement is good and logical, yet also really funny just because I know the community is going to fuck it up on purpose somehow down the road. Some players read this statement, that was pretty much written in a way for 5 year olds to understand, and already somehow genuinely came to the conclusion that Yoshi-P just gave the green light to both freely use and freely talk about any/all mods they want as long as they don't "infringe" on anything.

Reading comprehension and FF14 really don't mix for some players and this really seems like it'll be the situation that keeps on giving down the road.

[JadeCurtiss]

Yoshi-P's statement is good and logical, yet also really funny just because I know the community is going to fuck it up on purpose somehow down the road. Some players read this statement, that was pretty much written in a way for 5 year olds to understand, and already somehow genuinely came to the conclusion that Yoshi-P just gave the green light to both freely use and freely talk about any/all mods they want as long as they don't "infringe" on anything.

Reading comprehension and FF14 really don't mix for some players and this really seems like it'll be the situation that keeps on giving down the road.

Everyone is glossing over this sentence.

Of course, from my position leading FFXIV, I still feel that it is vital for players to follow our user agreement and other rules.

First rule of Fight Club. Same as it always was.

[Wingale]

The only rule of the Fight Club
Do not mention Fight Club

And if you can't do it, consider yourself no-no brain

[Sunhwapark]

Is the phrase "fight club" the most used words in the forum this past week ?

[Alice_Rivers]

Is the phrase "fight club" the most used words in the forum this past week ?

It might just be...

[Shinku_Tachi]

Is the phrase "fight club" the most used words in the forum this past week ?

I mean, it's a well known line from a well known movie, and it gets the point across succinctly.

One could also say, "don't fly too close to the sun."

At the end of the day, players need to be judicious and exercise a bit of common sense when it comes to mod usage. As Yoshi-P, the GMs, and community team has always had more of a "don't ask, don't tell" approach regarding this; rather than blanket, to the letter enforcement of the ToS.