Possibility to open FFXIV up to a moddable UI?

[Nabiri]

Blizzard does not allow any mod that plays the game for you. You're exagerrating immensely.

I don't believe Reika said it plays the game for you. Other people mentioned it. Re-read the post.

[Dreamer]

Blizzard does not allow any mod that plays the game for you. You're exagerrating immensely. They've had some close calls but quickly shut them down, like AVR. And since I'm seeing "healbot" mentioned all over the place, despite the name it is not a bot, at all. It does not do anything for the player, it just presents already given information in a different manner.

If you've ever coded with LUA, you can't do anything the game doesn't specifically enable you to do. Square could very easily disable whatever commands they desire if they want to shut down certain functions. UI mods are NOT harmful if moderated, period. UI mods have very rarely ever "played the game for you" in any game, because developers simply do not let that happen.

One word: Decursive (the original before Blizzard neutered it).

[Kaedan]

Blizzard does not allow any mod that plays the game for you. You're exagerrating immensely. They've had some close calls but quickly shut them down, like AVR. And since I'm seeing "healbot" mentioned all over the place, despite the name it is not a bot, at all. It does not do anything for the player, it just presents already given information in a different manner.

I beg to differ.

While few mods have literally played the game for you (botting), a vast number of the mods in WoW tell you exactly what to do and when to do it. This is why they have a bad name for "playing the game for you". If you have enough of them (like my friend who couldn't even see his character because he had so many mod windows open), you don't even need to think to play the game.

[Nabiri]

I beg to differ.

While few mods have literally played the game for you (botting), a vast number of the mods in WoW tell you exactly what to do and when to do it. This is why they have a bad name for "playing the game for you". If you have enough of them (like my friend who couldn't even see his character because he had so many mod windows open), you don't even need to think to play the game.

Wow... ; ; "push red button now.. " "Push green button now" "You win" lol ><;

[Nephera]

I'd dig an integrated monster encyclopedia.

[LlenCoram]

Great... So now on top of being turned away from parties because we aren't in their LS, or we don't speak a certain language, we can also look forward to being turned away from parties because we don't have this mod or that mod.

Yay?

[Jinko]

Woot, great news, keep up the hard work SE

[Alise]

I always up for open choice, whatever people will do with it are their own business.

[Elexia]

I always up for open choice, whatever people will do with it are their own business.

Till they force it on you, which ends up happening in every MMO.

[AngryNixon]

UI mods cometh! Make your time! The end is near!~

On another note, I hope we require LS members to have the most pointless mods in order to participate out of spite... like one that plays circus music when you engage a boss.

Those unwilling or unable to adapt to change will be unhappy with mods becoming standard place, such is life. If you don't get invited because you refuse to install a mod, you're in the wrong LS, go find a purist LS somewhere that insists on having all its members type out every command they wish to perform manually while walking around mumbling latin prayers and flagellating themselves. I'm sure after the UI apocalypse is upon us there will be a few.