Yoshi P, the Game Director of Final Fantasy 14 was rather disapointed in the recent World first Race.
The usage of addons is ruining his vision of the game.
If we keep adding addons that are intrusive, games will eventually become nothing but a mobile game playing it self.
Accolonn discuss about the ins and outs with addons in FFXIV.
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0:00 – FFXIV BEWARE, a WoW Player’s WARNING!
14:38 – Outtakes
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CBU3 always had a "Don't show, don't tell." rule about add ons. So long as you werent openly advertising them and you werent being a dick to other people you were fine. This changed because WF raiders decided to abuse that rule with DSR and had shit like Cactbot and ACT on full display for their clears. It was akin to holding up a sign to a security camera that reads "Im definitely cheating." while flipping off the cameraman. They abused CBU3's trust and are fucking things over for the rest of us.
The one issue with damage meters is fixed by banning assholes. A thing Square was already doing.
In resume: add ons are dildos.
Great video thank you so much
Well reasoned arguments. Also love the outtakes
I'm kind of curious when you were saying FFXIV's UI could use an update @1:51, are you talking the HUD layout? Since you're able to basically resize everything and move it around to your desired location, the only thing I can think of is changing it's look/theme. Currently I think they only have 3: Dark, Light and Classic. If that's what you meant, then I do agree. It would be nice to have more themes or at least be able to customize the colors, font/text and borders.
NGL, I would like Bethesda to go out of business. 100%
I enjoyed the background music, very nice.
Outtakes on all future videos please
As long as the game is cross platform (and it’ll continue to be) mods and addons outside of cosmetics, like gshade or whatever it’s called, will be outlawed.
As for those saying dps meters being a good thing for the game, I just don’t see how. The only thing that could come out of those is breed toxicity due to epeen measuring and creating more of a meta than there already is in the game lol.
The base ui already tells us who the top dps are and who the bottoms are. I just don’t see why more than that is so desired outside of measuring the said epeen which inevitably leads to toxic behaviors and metas.
So the conclusion is: addons are dildos…
One day I hope we get a entire 29min video of just acco outtakes
Aren't people expected to know the boss fight and do studying before the boss fight for raids (via the RL or a external website) anyway for WoW though?
Im no fan of your intro comparison but hey, must be me… Addons. Hate them. Away with you! When I started FF14 over two years ago it was "dont show, dont tell": it was offence against ToS, everyone knew it, and everyone knew they could get banned. Still we use them: shaders, speechbubbles, grafic mods… dmg meters, apparently the equivalent to DBM, cheat codes for PvP, smart buffs… Seriously, just ban their a**es -.- I was always like "if its no gameplay advantage like shaders or speechbubbles, Im fine with it" , but Id rather have them ban all of it than allow this strange limbo.
YoshiP has asked the design team played WoW in past, he actually understand how mod/plugin will affect a MMO.
There are addons in FFXIV which will allow you to autoplay the game. There are all sorts of cheats and mods that affect the game files as for example some mods allowing you to use skills without global delay, some will tell you or even walk your character out of the mechanics with 100% success rate and other addon will lets you have your entire 30 skill rotation on a single button.
Those addons works both in PVP and PVE in a MULTIPLAYER game, they are equivalent to cheating and modding in GTA V for example or CS:GO.
In WoW the raiding scene and hard content is only available to the modders who refuse to play with people who dont use any of them, and this removes you as a player from the activities essential for the game.
SE can't rely on add-ons as long as FFXIV is cross-platform. Blizzard could design WoW encounters around add-ons because everyone had access to them. They became a crutch for features Blizzard was too lazy to implement themselves. Add-ons should stay what they are in FFXIV. Personal, cosmetic, UI accessibility, just an extra bonus to playing on PC. They should not be a central supported feature of the game. Let SE know what you want improved, they listen better and lie less than Blizz.
There have been several concerning things happening at SQEnix. Selling off Beloved franchises such as Tombraider to focus on NFTs and now this. Pretty soon I fear FF14 will be an NFT based web 3 rpg.
I'm of the mind that if someone wants to do aesthetic stuff, go ahead. Don't really like the idea my character might be running around with tits out on someone else's screen, but whatever. Stuff that affects the gameplay? Naw. No not even for "accessibility." They've been working on a lot of stuff for that over the years, and I believe most people making that argument are doing so in bad faith (not everyone, but enough of them).
Acco speaking of add-ons making raids totally not fun and destroying casuals, the LFR system in WoW is very much the same now. Is used to pretty much be the guaranteed one-shot pretty mucn intro to raiding for for those who just wanted to kill the bosses to get to the cutscenes. Now LFR is on a level almost to what Heroic raiding was at LFR's inception. Spending hour wiping on final bosses when it used to be a guaranteed day 1 max 3-pull fight. They've upped the ante so far on tuning that your average players are completely left in the dust on what's supposed to be toned down content. I shouldn't have to deal with a 15-hour wipefest to down Zovaal in LFR. Should be max like 45 minutes to an hour to get it down. LFR never used to even require learning mechanics cuz it was so undertuned that nothing even hurt but that's no longer the case. LFR raiders know exactly that it means they chose the easy road, but it's almost easier now to just jump straight to heroic cuz you'll down every boss faster than you will in LFR
Accolonn once again puts it out there and folks are melting down…
I think this whole addons drama affect only streamers, im not an expert but from my understanding SE has no way to know if you are using an addon as long you let people know.
Anyways, If you are streaming and doing a raid/whatever using a third party tools is pretty obvious you will get some sort of ban.