Official Statement: Regarding Mod Usage and Culture

[CidHeiral]

More than reasonable post from Yoship all around.

And it's not just "don't talk about fight club." He's pretty explicitly saying that they're not ok with mods like Mare at all. Mods that are limited to your client only are fine.

[Ghost_of_Ebina]

Yoshida-san's comment makes perfect sense for me. The onus is on folks who had to be loud about breaking rules -- he really didn't have issues as long as things were kept underground.

[Hallarem]

Though in regards to money. Its still in their ballpark to make that money with making a good game that treats their subscribing customers well.

You do NOT make money by doing sideprojects and telling people to "go play other games cause we got nothing here for you"

The goodwill needs to be earned back with meaningful hard hitting story, dialogue, gameplay and QoL innovation in 8.0 or we will keep running in circles or to an inevitable dead end

[Hallarem]

People will support them through cash shop if the game is good.

[Zakuyia]

Nice to see he has a much lenient stance on mods. The problem are mods that use players ID for malicious purpose. Apparently Mare had some bad actors who were using it to stalk ppl. Again folks if your that mentally twisted to engage in stalking, harassing, and other nefarious acts just stop. Look ppl making plug-ins to stalk ppl bad enough, ppl taking a mod that was meant to be for fun and doing that with it.....come on. Yoshi-P is actually be nice for once about this. The least ppl can do is not be idk weird for a few minutes. If someone bothers you that much dont engage them. Defiantly dont be making a plug-in or mod that allows you to reverse engineer the game in order to stalk them. Cause ima call ya weird like the rest of peeps.

Overall looks like Dalamund and certain others are safe for now until ppl get weird again and go on an obsession to look up ppl in rp community they blocked in order to stalk them or stalk ppl for under cutting them.....

[Vanfrano]

They know perfectly well that the game and many of its players are way past very deviant behaviour and SE has been capitalizing on it for years now. They are trying to avoid a scandal and legal actions against them for things that could basically shut the game down and hurt SE badly.
A whole part of the game is deeply disgusting and disturbing, SE knows it, they don't mind as long as it brings money and doesn't go overly public.

[Zakuyia]

They know perfectly well that the game and many of its players are way past very deviant behaviour and SE has been capitalizing on it for years now. They are trying to avoid a scandal and legal actions against them for things that could basically shut the game down and hurt SE badly.
A whole part of the game is deeply disgusting and disturbing, SE knows it, they don't mind as long as it brings money and doesn't go overly public.

Bro if I could Hi-five you I would. Like this right here ^ you get a like from me for this. Money Money MONEY is the reason why. Mods = Subs = MONEY SE knows that.

[Swordsman]

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..

Yeah lol, a game that's rated for kids 13+ having mods showing adult content that could make Hugh Hefner blush is probably not ideal.

[DPZ2]

Yeah lol, a game that's rated for kids 13+ having mods showing adult content that could make Hugh Hefner blush is probably not ideal.

What parent is allowing their 13-year-old kid to run any unvetted mod for a video game? Probably the same parent that thought Cyperpunk 2077 or Grand Theft Auto V was appropriate for a 13 year old.

The United States is particularly inept with ESRB ratings. Even the European and Asian ratings for FFXIV start at 15+.

[Commander_Justitia]

players need to be judicious and exercise a bit of common sense when it comes to mod usage

they are not thinking with their head I fear, or we wouldn't be here

Xenos interview with Mare Dev is 100% clear there are freaks out there.

I can't wait for the day to come, and I hope I'm wrong.

You aren't wrong. You really think the freaks would let slip away their sacred g0.0ner paradise parade? They would be better off touching grass for now, and the community to avoid whatever replacement mods are released atm. Or SE is forced to make modding harder - hurray, even less content.

I hoped in the past SE would go the way of WoW, and create a guideline for mods - at least from ethical standpoint, the user will still be responsible for what they use.
But once you give the community some rules, I feel they are more likely to respect them, than something vague they cant fully grasp.

Example of what Blizzard did once