Honestly it's 2 parts haha one is that I got a little burnt out on the game myself between my own feelings about the story and pf grind being rough and the other is that I've been trying to really cook on my thoughts so I can actually add something new and interesting to the conversation and not just repeat what others say. A lot of people have made some of the complaints I have so I wanna make sure that I'm really in tune with how I feel since I don't match 100% and have thoughts on things some aren't talking about. I appreciate hearing that someone actually wants me to talk about the story! I have been working on that video (my feelings on the story...I could probably make multiple) but it'll be a longer one so I hope to get it out next month

@Sonicrida Thanks for the very thorough reply! Are perhaps some of your opinions on the Dawntrail MSQ the same as what others have expressed (significant dissatisfaction)? You almost sound as though you want to find a different, more personal angle that would make your take especially unique, when I as a viewer would rather just hear an honest one regardless of what it contains. Also you say you are burnt out, but aren't you still producing videos based around other content from Dawntrail? Are you just burnt out on the MSQ, was that how it left you? Of course you should process your thoughts clearly before you speak on them. I just noticed you were surprisingly open with your expectations BEFORE Dawntrail released despite none of us having any real notion of the state of the narrative (other than the track record of the writing staff), but now having actually played the game for about 6 months, nothing... Anyhow, I certainly look forward to hearing your views on Dawntrail's MSQ and always remember, the player base relies on honest critique from big content creators like yourself! Then hopefully Square Enix might take notice and make any necessary adjustments to the course they are charting for next 10 years of FFXIV. 🙏

@@GAF516 Yeah I guess what I mean is more like, it's not that I won't give an honest take! But I don't want that to be all there is if that makes sense at least in regards to what I did/didn't like? It's easy for me to see the things I did or didn't like about DT but there's deeper meaning in it in regards to the community and the "state" of things that I find just as interesting among other things. There are some broad level theories I have and I've been legit reading research papers on some topics to dig into some of those theories more and flesh out my feelings and provide extra insight into what I think about the whole situation. Could I just talk about my disappointments alone? Sure but most of my vids are very focused about the community and direction and I always like to leave a positive takeaway even if that's just my hopes and feedback for SE to take into account in future expansions and patches so I wanna make sure that I deliver on that part too. I'd say without spoiling a lot of it haha I prob am closer to the middle than most while still overall leaning negative (despite finding fun with it) especially with some of the major story beats (and I am pretty upset with krile getting like 0 attention and rushed at the end). Kinda like when you watch a movie and you like it in the moment but you sit down to think at home and it's like "wait that was weird....and that.....and that....." + some parts I got really bored too. And yeah I still *tried* to stay uploading but before this month I was doing like a vid per month which is a lot less than I'd like to upload but I've been better about it this year so far and hope to stay that way! I have a harder time with longer videos so I've also just been trying to improve my process to get more stuff out without getting drained because I do have a lot to say on a subject like this. Appreciate you asking also! I do agree that it's important for SE to hear from content creators and the rest of the community as well even if I wouldn't call myself big by any means :P

It's kind of sad that this isn't changed

Yeah sometimes I feel like the dev team seems seriously overwhelmed with how often they mention some of them being scared to touch parts of the code.

Yeah mods like this spit in the face of SE and I do expect them to comment on it. I hope so anyway

you should join some discords! (unless you don't want friends in game anyway)

Yeah honestly haha it is a blast but it can be rough in PF

Especially when it's a female character with a dude talking in a deep ass voice, always found that shit dumb lol

hahahaha SORRY I know it bugs some people :P I try not to overdo it in any case but I also want my WoL to be a little recognizable too

Just fear mongering they won't do anything at most will quietly revert how blacklists work

Yeah it's a big concern of mine

If they decide to do something about it they kind of have to go for all mods and plugins. Otherwise they would play favorites and basically say some mods are fine, others are not but at the same time its still against TOS. This is very deep and murky water.

Alts can be fun for different reasons but yeah, at the very least verify your trust in whatever you're putting on your computer. This goes for mods or any other app that you download tbh none of this stuff is approved by SE and they can do nothing if your machine gets compromised in some way

Yeah it's a complicated situation. Which creator was this who got a video taken down? I haven't heard about that one

@@Sonicrida @oohboy is the guy. he got 3 vids on clubs, and the 2nd one is taken down by SE. he even made a community post about it.

We were DOMINATING by the end of this match honestly hahahaha

Vanguard crashes my computer so yeah.....I hope we never get anything like that

Both the game and its community are in a bad state, it seems. These issues have been there from the start, just overlooked because of decent story, but even that is no more with 7.0 writing.

disagreed. while it sure is sad that these kinds of players exist, i wouldnt say that its that many people who act that way. to say that the community is the most fake positive community is a very far stretch.

Yeah exactly! For some people this is definitely all they have to do but some people still get bothered by the idea that they could be followed around. The bigger issue though is to fix the "alt tracking", they'd have to revert the change to the blacklist back to where it doesn't block their alts so it gets more complicated since you won't know as easily that you are being stalked. Even then the current blacklist isn't 100% effective cuz a stalker can always make a new service account if they are sadly determined enough :/

@@Sonicrida Since the alt tracking thing has already gained so much information it wouldn't even work on pre-existing alts probably to revert the blacklist system. I don't think it's really worth it either because providing a more powerful way to block seems ultimately better at stopping stalking. Like if they make a new account... just blacklist that one too. Eventually it will either eventually become prohibitively expensive, or if they really keep at it, you can probably get in contact with game moderators and get a more definitive solution like an ip ban. I don't know, maybe there's something I don't understand about it like I said, but at least from what I do know it seems like a major non-issue.

no you understand perfectly, this is all overblown clickbait nonsense

@@naruto-kun-ub6yz This video has 1.9k views as of writing this its obvious click bait, this modder "majority" that would just up and quit if mods where banned where are they? Xeno probably has the most views on this topic and hes barely pushing 32k views with the amount of drama he farms. Literal wow classic shenanigans with Pirate is the biggest mmo news this week that how irrelevant this drama is.

True lol

My ex in ff14 doxed me. I had to change my phone number and move. I got squaded. Because of my psychopath ex.

@@zhane6816 i bet they didn't dox you using xiv lol this is all overblown nonsense, you got a social media account or anything online you face the same risk of getting doxxed

@@zhane6816 thats your EX makes sense they would know the real you...

sometimes it's just one piece of the puzzle. It sucks when it feels like you can't escape someone and 14 means a lot for some people especially when they use it to escape the struggled they deal with irl. It's not cool when stalkers ruin that

Trust me there's no way the utterly incompetent engineers at square will be able to add anti-cheat lol.

Totally agree. This would be the smart approach. Gotta look at the root of the issue, rather than the side effects. The whole "TPPs are against ToS" policy is just a safety net for the game's visual identity to the public eyes and to protect console players, but that being said, actual harmful TPPs can only exist if the game's code allow them to exist in the first place. You don't "cure TPPs" by nuking them since they would just "respawn" in some way, you cure TPPs by carefuly crafting your game's code and making sure nothing hyper sensitive is accessible in it. 🤔 Everything too sensitive (so including accounts IDs) must be server-side and preferably encrypted. An anti-cheat would be a "cheap bandage" to do damage control. It would both alienate the playerbase (and make a bunch of people leave), cause trouble for people on certain specific systems, and not even resolve the core issues as I bet some people will just manage to bypass it and continue to exploit what the game's code allows them to exploit.

Anticheat wouldnt do anything here. The information being received to the client doesnt require any mods to be seen.

Even this is hard because a lot of tools like this can work without modifying game files at all. Someone could easily make an app like this that just runs outside of the game instead of within as a plugin

I have faith that we will probably hear something about it. Allegedly at least one forum post has been removed discussing it so it's on their radar it seems. SE is historically slow to talk about anything that isn't raid balancing and an issue like this is more complicated than it seems to us with whatever amount of hurdles they have to work through on their side to deal with a safety issue. I hope that it's sooner than later though but I also don't want them to rush to any decisions either

Right? There's even a plug-in called penny pincher which auto undercuts when listing items. So it likely wasn't even a personal attack on the mod developer XD just some random going about their business. Which to me makes it even more crazy....sheesh some people.

@@MrLightlike78 seriously!! i know of that plug-in, too, and i hadn't even taken that into account when writing my comment. if anything, that makes THIS plugin just that much crazier. i cannot imagine taking that sort of thing personally. like, at most, undercutting is a minor annoyance that anyone who has ever listed anything on the market board has experienced. beyond that... i don't say this lightly, but the users/maker of this plugin need to touch grass. ridiculous amounts of grass. god help the theoretical grass that these people need to touch. i almost feel sorry for said grass. gonna have to endure a whole lot of touching before these people come to their senses, if they ever do 🤣

first off, I'm sorry that you've had to deal with stalking at all in the game - it just sucks for anybody who experiences it. and yeah, I don't buy the undercutting excuse at all no way you need all these other features if that's all you care about

@ it's alright! it's been a few years since it happened now, thankfully. but thank you 💕and yeah, the maker of the plug-in is definitely telling on themselves if they think that that's a valid reason for making it in the first place. i totally agree!

Lmao literally me mate but on Ps5 instead of pc. Skill issues fr

not having noclippy is a huge issue, they will absolutely not do any anti cheats, itll cost them too much money

14 stalking has actually been involved in someone getting arrested IRL - it's usually just one part of someone's larger behavior to make someone feel unsafe

Exactly. It can't automatically pull all your characters as soon as it gets the ID. The plugin still needs ot have someone using it while an alt is present to match the two characters together. This means that if you have an alt that you only login to your house with, it won't be tracked. The moment it is around ANY PLAYER with the plugin, it will be added to the database and no longer hidden though

You say that like its the only game this shit happens on. ALL MMORPGs have stalker issues, and they have all handled them differently. You can't stop malicious people from trying to be malicious. It's that simple.

​@@jrtime228 exactly

I absolutely agree, everyone using this mod should be permanently yeeted out of the game. There is literally no good reason to use this mod.

It's already banned. LoL... Also, mods work on client side, which's why only people who talk about mods ingame get caught.

They would have to break the privacy laws of several different countries to take an active approach to enforcing that. It has been officially stated that people caught modding will be banned. But that obviously requires people to say something about it too. So if you want the modders to be punished, report them. But without a way to prove that they are modding (because mods are a client-side process) you are not going to get far.

With the bad state the game is in In my opinion currently, with less then a million players, the moment any strong measures will go in affect will bring FFXIV to the brink.

@@mrenigma6683 A lot of people talk about it tho.... Go back 4 years at it was rarely mentioned. Today even sprouts who started a week a go knows about it because people talk about it. "Dark magic/mare" No one reports it....yet. Even in ally raids can people mention DPS and if someone do a little bad. Some sit the way you cant on most servers and no one cares. Just takes 1 to screenshot it and report it to ruin it for players. But i'm just waiting for people to go crazy over this as well. Feels like we are getting closer and closer to that every week now.

@@HayamiHana13-137 how are mare users now a problem? i would dare to say that exactly *these* kinds of mods are the least harmful, if even at all.

Lmao

Yeah I hope the game never adds something like that.....these kinds of mods suck but Denuvo hurts everybody IMO

Yeah it's definitely a situation where people besides Yoshi-P can easily have a say in what happens here

Fwiw there have been major cheating scandals in all regions. I think most do but the west is much more careless about getting caught and discussing stuff in highly public ways. Also that's a good point. I do play throne and liberty and they update every week consistently so it wouldn't be hard tbh

I find it funny that Yoshi P is apparently babying the western player base, but correct me if Im wrong in remembering that the last two ultimates first place teams were found to be JP teams using third party tools. JP is no better and acting like its only one portion of the player bases fault is a terrible take. Let alone the western player base is not exactly happy with the current situation.

Wasn't the last 2 cheating scandals in the world's first Japanese or at least Eastern. It's a modding problem not just western problem.

@@Jiffles People LOVE to blame western players on everything, and sadly, sometimes they are right...but with this, they are not.

Weekly micro patches would do so much good to counter plugins and mods in general. Arguably that would be the most efficient solution if they wanted to crack down on mods. Even better than anti cheat imo. The game is playable without mods. It will lose some players, but it will recover!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Happy to provide some insight! Hopefully it helps more people to understand the situation

Yeah hopefully alternative solutions appear. If anything I can see them making a statement about it before going down that route but I feel like the community is at a point where they don't care which may end up forcing SE's hands

I think they are currently speaking with their legal team and maybe prepare cease and desists already. They carefully plan this and dont rush a statement.

@@TobinatorTx The problem is more the means than the offender in question. Anyone else can simply pick on where this skeezy dev leaves off. They need to fix the blacklist function or at the very least disable it, then consider a path of integrative services under the hood to better obscure player data, both on the game itself as well as the lodestone and any other official sources. From there, they can go after offenders after the metaphorical wound is bound an bleeding of player information security mended.

Yeah it's a really sad situation....

It's how your client know person b is person a on your blacklist. It's how they were able to achieve account wide blacklisting. Though their implementation left a LOT to be desired.

@chaous2000 They should implement that on the server side, not client side. They shouldn't even expose the character id preferably.

That's wild and yeah, I don't envy being square right now because they have some tough decisions to make assuming they don't just let things stay as they are.

that discord server was made up, seemingly. not that the rest of this is good!

This is completely made up nonsense lmao.