Official Statement: Regarding Mod Usage and Culture

[Hallarem]

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

[Crafoutis]

This guy has a seemingly unlimited amount of patience with this community...

This also confirms what I already knew. They do not have a problem with you using mods, so long as you don't use them to affect other people's game and play. As long as everything is only on your end, and you are not using it to abuse others, you're good.

Wrong. Sharing is also bad bad bad.

[s32ialx]

some people just can't read what they are seeing on the screen. and also looking for something or someone to be mad at lmao

and then some people can't tell a shitpost

[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]

in regards to the arguement of people using mods for mogstation items instead of buying them.

like piracy in general, if people would rather take the unofficial route to get your product/item, they either dont have the money for it, or dont think its worth the price and likely would not have purchased it anyway.

and i think this may have an opposite effect as people who may have used mod for mogstation items may well feel far less inclined to spend money on them now.

whereas up until now people would buy things like emotes and gear sets because mods were being made to work off those items, either by directly replacing them or improving/expanding upon them

Scruit_Bigtime ima give you some amazing advice free of charge hold for a second ima let the legend, the myth, the man himself tell ya
Gabe Newell famously stated that "piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem". He elaborated that the easiest way to stop piracy is not through anti-piracy technology but by offering a better service than what pirates provide, emphasizing that users are willing to pay if the service is valuable and convenient enough.
How about SE lower the prices on them outfits that one outfit costing 42.00 and your telling me you are ok with an outfit costing that much?

Look I buy from mogstation....but even I have limitations on that. Outfits costing 42.00 and its not even acount bound is WILD.

Also. If the outfit offers bigger boobas ofcourse ID do that. XD

Overall tho. I cant take what your saying serious. Like allot of you have the I play this game and I demand to control your account cause i Pay a sub and for that I demand all of you to bow to my playstyle or ill ban you for life mind set.

Idc if ppl wanna mod. Don't advertise it, don't let me know, don't even talk to me about it. IF im a drug dealer selling drugs. Am I just gonna straight up go to the police and be like eyo wanna buy some drugs....of course not. So think of mods like a drug and yoshi-p like a police officer. You dont want him to notice dont give him a reason to notice. To all the peeps with the remove mods for good mindset. Mind you, that be the stupidest hot take you all would do. Im sorry but the truth is. Remove the mods and this game would die faster than my hopes and dreams of ppl on forum actually being intelligent enough to understand how deep the mod rabbit hole goes. You be surprise how many ppl mod. Its not 1 or 2 not even a thousand.....its bigger than we think. Your telling yoshi-p to call how many ppl to unsub..... you literally are creatively bankrupt if you think that the smartest thing to do.
It is not.....

[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