Official Statement: Regarding Mod Usage and Culture

[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

[Crafoutis]

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

You know what else the United States is bad with? Their players not heeding the wishes of the creator of the game and minding propriety, betraying the social contract put forward by the devs.

[Crafoutis]

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



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

I'm an advocate of an accelerationist stance:

I want modding to get so bad that Squeenix is forced to implement a kernel-level anti-cheat and completely obliterate any and all mods.

[Commander_Justitia]

I'm an advocate of an accelerationist stance:

I want modding to get so bad that Squeenix is forced to implement a kernel-level anti-cheat and completely obliterate any and all mods.

After they tried to invent their own cryptographic methods for blacklist, and general JP stoneage in IT security, I rather not let them make spyware. xD But they can make it hard to mod and waste a lot of peoples time. Which would make modding like work. And then we are in a loss loss situation.

[Crafoutis]

After they tried to invent their own cryptographic methods for blacklist, and general JP stoneage in IT security, I rather not let them make spyware. xD But they can make it hard to mod and waste a lot of peoples time. Which would make modding like work. And then we are in a loss loss situation.

If people don't want that then we'd better hope the community wisens up and stops modding and sharing.

[RedLolly]

The rule was "Keep it to yourself."

That was still too hard for people to follow and it was overwhelmingly because of porn or thirst-traps.

[Crafoutis]

I say good riddance and let them all leave, this space, like any space, is only made better by their absence.

[SasukeUchiha81]

I've read it, watched a video dissecting it, then read it again. Honestly, we took it too far, dial it back. Yoshi P is a rockstar from my POV, for the way he handled and explained it. I agree.

[Swordsman]

You know what else the United States is bad with? Their players not heeding the wishes of the creator of the game and minding propriety, betraying the social contract put forward by the devs.

Yup, no argument from me on that. Like others have said, modders did it to themselves.