Possibility to open FFXIV up to a moddable UI?

[Ostia]

It's not about Progress...not even in the slightest.

Mods like Bartender, Fubar or w/e made browsing your inventory and using abilities in WoW a lot easier. It is the possibilities of all kidns of mods that makes it less appealing, because it can pretty much destroy the whole purpose of some stuff.

Just consider WoW here...when Blizzard is developing new raid instances now, they already develop them with the thought in the back of their minds, that stuff like Boss Mods etc are being used.

I'm sorry...as far as I'm welcoming modded UIs for easier navigation and stuff...I am completely against stuff that "tells you what to do and when to do it" like Boss Mods etc. Would you like to know that you have to stun the mob in 3 seconds, cause the script tells you that he will use "so and so" ability in 3 seconds that needs to be stunned?

This has nothing to do with progress or "modern" UIs...this is just taking away your own effort and turns it into a trivial task.

People who are against modded UIs are not against the positive stuff that comes with, they are against the negative stuff that comes with it, which outweighs the positive easily IMO. If modded UIs come(which requires SE to make the code public) it's free for use for whatever mod you have in my mind and it WILL end up in stuff like Boss Mods or similiar things, and no matter how much I'd like an optimized UI, I'd rather pass on it if it means things like boss mods will come as well.

Name me a UI mod in wow that plays the game for you......

I'll wait here dont worry :P

[TirionCrey]

Name me a UI mod in wow that plays the game for you......

I'll wait here dont worry :P

Stop trolling Ostia, seriously. Read my post and think again before you act like a smartass. I never said the Mods play the game for you, I said mods can take away your own effort and make it a trivial task(Boss Mods)

Boss Mods doesn't do things for you, but they tell you what to do at what time...that's already way more then I'd like to see in XIV...

If you like to play XIV and fight boss' as if you are mentally retarded, that's your choice.

[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 ><;

[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

[Jinko]

Who knows? It could turn into that if Modding gets out of hands and people make mods that pretty much play the game for you, all you have to do is press the right key (healbots). say X healer doesnt have the newly developed healing mod, and misses a heal by 1.4 seconds. there WILL be that person that goes psycho when he/she finds out that person didnt use healbot...

The party list is basically heal bot anyway, you just press the skill (number 7 in my case) and click the name, it wouldn't take much to use an external program to configure 7 to the left mouse button for example.

It seems like people are getting UI mods and botting confused... "heal bot"? "Playing the game for me"?

Healbot is actually not a bot, it just allows you to configure healing spells to the click of the left and right mouse buttons.

[Elexia]

Im talking about mods that help players, not doing things instead of them lol ...

That's what mods will be made, become standard then be forced onto players if they want to partake in x,y,z event, therefore, as Dr. Cox would say, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Simple UI design mods would do just fine, no gameplay tweaks.

[Alise]

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

[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.

[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.