Discussion: User Created UI Addons?

[Ryans]

You guys know that add ons are optional right? And the same people who are going to download/install and use them are the same people who would use them if they had to be in the background?

That's funny. Optional. If only that were true. Just like it is optional to not class stack. The community decides what people need to use to be accepted into groups. If the community decides that having a damage, threat, and boss timer addon are required, you have the option to accept it or not get groups. Sure, you can look for a group of like-minded people who don't want to use those addons, but that sure as hell isn't going to be the case for the majority, the casuals as many would call them. As it stands now, the only saving grace is that FFXIV doesn't easily support parsers so people have to go out of their way to get one. In 2.0, I suspect there will be websites dedicated to getting addons to the community.