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FF14 devs have historically been anti modding, arguably the most anti mod stance of all the major mmos, so i dont know why theyre complaining now.
they do so pretty publicly as well
They have a reason? And by devs, do you mean Square Enix, or have the actual programmers gone on the record saying it?
the director himself is usually the one who comes out and explains it and whats happening behind the scenes. Hence when they address it, he will be talking as himself as rather the team in official blogposts. Theyve been litigious against mods early in the year so youd be hard pressed to think they want it there.
generally speaking, most mmo companies have a similar clause and they take mods on a case by case basis. FF14 is the only one that constantly reminds people Moddings Bad Mkay, don’t do it, and actually acts (bans) on it.
The community is being dumb and spoiled. They did this to themselves by publicly talking about the mod even on fucking shout ingame.
Mods are not allowed (we can argue about this but that’s not the point now) so everyone using mods knows (or should know) that talking about mods ingame and in public places like the fucking Square Enix forums is not a thing you should be doing.
And what did they do? All of it. So many times that in events they were even flooding the ingame chats about the mods.
You dumb assholes brought this to yourselves by breaking the TOS and talking about it freely.
What’s there to mod in an online game? The UI?
You’d be amazed what a third party 14-Launcher could mod. All sorts of automation was the major draw for me.
There’s… so much you can mod in the game. And a lot of it is classified +18.
You gain 18 years of age by using the mod? :)
When I played a couple of years ago everyone in the community knew that modding could get your account banned. SquareEnix said it all the time, so it has always been use at your own risk.
