Official Statement: Regarding Mod Usage and Culture

[Zackneifein]

I'm gonna keep saying it; a better take and action on square's part would have been to give personal accountability to people that were belligerent TOS breakers like the guy that got banned for using ACT on stream back in 2019 you don't see people using it anymore but they still claim to use it same thing for the ERP club mare advertisements in shout chat banning these people or at least punishing them would have cut down on a lot of nonsense and it would have padded them from the fallout of just axing the plug in out of the blue.

Do you realize how impossible it is ? It's extremely hard to prove the use of Mare. It would require a lot of time, investigations and peoples (and so money) to even slightly have an impact. And when advertising in Limsa would become too dangerous, they would simply rely on forums & discords. Removing Mare solve the problem entirely.

And you don't take into consideration two things that is said, and that is of implacable logic :
- Like it or not, allowing other players to see mog station stuff or difficult content gear is breaking the game mechanics and economy, why pay something you can have for free ? Why bother doing hard-content in a game where stats barely matter and glamour is all there is at the end ? What about those who already paid for this content ?
- You didn't even take into consideration what he said about other countries legislation going more and more strict. The day FFXIV is banned from a country or become 18+ killing it effectively, they will lose much more money and potential money that closing Mare will ever do. And players from those countires will only have their eyes to cry. If he talked about it, it's more that likely the legal departement of Square Enix warned them that it was a possibility to prevent at all cost.

Yeah maybe not the full 270k will leave but square doesn't want even 30k it's a lot of money to lose, they just got done begging us to buy cash shop items or sub costs would be considered for increase while putting a sale on the mog station. lol

Even 30k is too much. Those who will truly leave are far fewer than that. Most that will want to continue will simply do what was done before Mare existed : take more time to set up, that's all.