Integrity matters

[Hanzz96]

Achievements in game mean literally nothing except for the weight that you give them. I spent 2 months progging Kefka ultimate in all my spare time and what weight does the "Cruel Legend" title have to me? That I did it with my friends and we pushed through together. People can assume paypal legend or botting but whatever I know I progged and cleared it and how others value my achievements in a pretend video game doesn't mean anything.

If what other people are doing bothers you so much or devalues how you see in game achievments that you earned than thats a you problem. That being said though I can promise that at the highest level of game play people aren't botting their rotations because especially in ultimates the fights are deisgned to shatter your rotation, step on it and then challenge you to piece it back together with sticky tape. Anyone botting a rotation is doing bloody awful damage I assure you.

When it comes to "modbeasts" as you say well who cares? You can't see their character, it doesn't effect you. Let people be happy because this whole thread screams of you taking some moral high-ground for some unknown reason.

Do you want to know the real reason SE won't address mods? Because on 80 ping+ you cannot double weave in this game without 3rd party assistance because of the games bad netcode. SE has repeatedly refused to fix this and it puts players who aren't close to the data center at a disadvantage to those who are physically close. SE have chosen not to fix this because people use mods for it and they can be lazy and save money.

So if they kill plugins tomorrow 90% of raiders would leave because most cannot double weave in a game designed around being able to do so, just because of their location. And no it's not as simple as living closer to the server or playing on your own DC because regions like South America and SEA don't have their own servers and players from those locations will never get under 200 ping on NA/JP data centres. I should also point out that many of these raiders already have to pay subscriptions to expensive VPN's like exitlag in conjunction with tools to allow double weaving just so they can play at the same level as someone who lives on the US west coast for example.

If cosmetic mods that don't bother anyone at all except for the user (who once again is the only person who can see them) are gone overnight than thats 90% of casuals and raiders gone. Because everyone likes expressing themselves through a character they may have invested a decade into and many use harmless mods to do it. Losing something as simple as a modded hair style that brings someone joy in a game that they pay for would suck. Especially if it's just to appease busy bodies on the forums.

So then who's left to play/financially support this game while you sit on your high horse?