Final Fantasy 16 Producer Asks Fans Not To Make 'Offensive Or Inappropriate' Mods (ign.com) 51
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IGN: Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida has asked fans to please not make "offensive or inappropriate" mods upon the game's PC release tomorrow, September 17. Yoshida wouldn't comment on any specific mods he wants to see in Final Fantasy 16 in an interview with PC Gamer, though made clear what he doesn't want to see. "If we said, 'it'd be great if someone made X, Y, Z,' it might come across as a request, so I'll avoid mentioning any specifics here," Yoshida said. "The only thing I will say is that we definitely don't want to see anything offensive or inappropriate, so please don't make or install anything like that."
Mods allow players to create custom content for games, often resulting in incredibly useful gameplay changes such as the ability to play Elden Ring with friends seamlessly, or major additions such as an entire new expansion for Fallout 4 or the ability to play as custom characters in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Due to the nature of the internet, however, many mods are also, as Yoshida put it, "offensive or inappropriate." While cheating is one thing, fellow publisher Capcom expressed concern in November 2023 that "there are a number of mods that are offensive to public order and morals" which cause damage to the property itself.
Mods allow players to create custom content for games, often resulting in incredibly useful gameplay changes such as the ability to play Elden Ring with friends seamlessly, or major additions such as an entire new expansion for Fallout 4 or the ability to play as custom characters in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Due to the nature of the internet, however, many mods are also, as Yoshida put it, "offensive or inappropriate." While cheating is one thing, fellow publisher Capcom expressed concern in November 2023 that "there are a number of mods that are offensive to public order and morals" which cause damage to the property itself.
Good luck with that (Score:4)
And remember, kids--don't stick beans up your nose!
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Rule 34
Sorry mate
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Re: Good luck with that (Score:2)
How does other people getting their jollies in their own homes effect you? Yeeesh
Proposed mods for societal benefit (Score:2)
Add NPC characters who give hours of dialog, examining detailed topics in history, philosophy, biography, nature and science.
Changing FF forever from hack and slash, puzzle solving, ever bigger boss battles to a lifelong journey in education, self fulfillment and beneficial discovery.
Sounds like a good challenge for FF to become an educational tool. Think of the puzzles, There's a sign a the bridge which says "To pass the bridge troll, which CFR regulation concerns the interstate transmission of electricit
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The could be playing BG3 and fucking bears and vampires without any mods.
So *only* create offensive and inappropriate mods? (Score:2)
This seems like the best way to ensure that every mod on day one is offensive and inappropriate — mods that give you a button to open your cloak and flash your opponents, weapons that look like giant phalluses, flying billboards that look like the 'f' word, and so on.
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Some people exist for the sole purpose of degrading other people's lives. It's all they are, because they have nothing else to offer.
Hey, there are thousands of invented by women (Score:2)
There is a group of women verbal and cultural entrepreneurs in inventing new things to be offended by, with the ultimate goal of making anything they want, shifting sands as offensive.
So a FF NPC that says 'Hello . Welcome to the town.' would be considered as too forward for certain players and oppressive.
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If your hobby is being an asshole, you're what I'm talking about.
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> It's all they are, because they have nothing else to offer.
I'm sorry you don't understand the purpose of hobbies.
Why would I want to spend thousands of dollars that I dont have and hundreds of hours to make trash?
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Degrading the life of a person that's just sitting around pressing buttons on a controller and watching colors flashing on the screen, seems like it'd be a difficult feat to perform.
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This seems like the best way to ensure that every mod on day one is offensive and inappropriate — mods that give you a button to open your cloak and flash your opponents, weapons that look like giant phalluses, flying billboards that look like the 'f' word, and so on.
Also opens the doors to developers to lock down parts of the game that they don't want modders to F-UP and make offensive to others. Just sayin'
Crappy DRM (Score:2)
Unfortunately the game comes with Denuvo anti-tamper. I don't buy games that use my resources to treat me like a criminal.
There are so many other games that don't. I play those instead.
Think of DRM as a bonus game :P (Score:1)
Defeat the DRM [archive.org] to get to the real game.
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Same here. Denuvo is something crappy developers put in.
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I suspect the decision to add the strong DRM is not made by developers (or development teams) but by publishers and people outside of the development teams who are afraid of piracy.
Where's the fun in that ??? (Score:4, Insightful)
Really, isn't that what mods are for ?
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Indeed. Mods are for fixing game defects and bring in the sexiness the developers did not dare to put in.
Cyberpunk mods (Score:2)
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... Of the first 40 mods on last updated on Nexus, all of 4 are female specific, and one of those is specific to scarves and masks. This is contrasted with 9 for Skyrim, 9 for Fallout 4, and 4 for Baldur's Gate 3.
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Skyrim mods are awesome! You can get anything you want. One of over 50,000 is called Bathing Beauties of Beefcake Luxury Suites. For some of the other mods, the developers catered to whatever sexual thing your heart desired.
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and my disappointment with the single mionded focus on hot chicks.
The only chicks that they get in their sorry lifes
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You do know that virtue-signalling does not speak well of you, right?
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In my current domestic situation that could be a life threatening pursuit for someone
I will leave the rest to your extremely fertile imagination
Increase the TTP (Score:2)
This might increase the TTP (Time To Penis) from one minute to two!
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I don't know about that... Some might take it as a challenge, thus lowering the TTP.
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Oh you sweet summer child. You think the mods weren't ready to go before launch?
Is there a law against it? (Score:2)
Just wondering.
If not, this dude is SOL.
Just imagine something that *can* have pr0n NOT having pr0n.
I'm sure that him saying "please" will make all the difference! Lol.
Test (Score:2)
Test post please delete
Due to the nature of the internet (Score:2)
cause damage to the property itself (Score:2)
Reputational damage (Score:1)
How exactly this causes damage to the game
Things like this can cause reputational damage to the game/brand/franchise, i.e. the "intellectual property."
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Two words: Streisand effect.
Remember the Hot Coffee [wikipedia.org] mod for GTA? It made the game MORE famous not less. Same thing here.
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Take your pick:
Incompetence.
Crappy Content Creation.
Furries.
Adult themes and/or maybe weird fetishes.
The intersection of Adult Themes and Furries along with the rest of the The Geek Hierarchy [fanlore.org]
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Fee fees and 'fendies (Score:3)
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It's a poor translation, not what he meant.
In Japan there is a strong culture of people adapting other people's works, particularly for porn. Take any popular game or anime and there will be massive amounts of porn for it. The original creators don't seem to mind and never sue. That includes this guy and Square Enix, who tolerate the massive number of pornographic works featuring Final Fantasy characters.
The issue with game modding is twofold. First, the mods can look like they were an original part of the
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I am getting sick of this ever growing and oppressive culture of being expected to walk on eggshells and even that's becoming not enough. Look lady, people are going to make content that offends your eyes and goes against YOUR values. Deal with it. That is one of the few non criminal releases people have left in this shit pot, eat you up and spit you out world we live in. And don't worry, only some people are going to make phalluses and whatnot and move on after they had their jollies. The rest are serious players who won't be engaging in such nonsense. I'm mighty tired of people trying to monster ME into walking on eggshells because of THEIR hangups, and them being offended at every little thing. Who the hell made them God? They need to piss off, the lot of them.
What did we expect? I mean, really. When people began the whole PC marching brigade, it seemed harmless but a bit over-the-top. Then, at some point, we as a society decided that the ultimate super-power was being offended. So, some folks saw that and took advantage of it. Now, the industrious and attention seekers know that all they have to do is say that they are offended, and it's instant gratification. It's led to an entire generation of people that believe if someone calls them by a pronoun they didn't
Time arrow reversed, confirmed. (Score:4, Funny)
upon the game's PC release tomorrow, September 17.
Posted by BeauHD on 2:00 18 September 2024 from the pretty-please dept
All those time research scientists have nothing on BeauHD.
subjective (Score:2)
Sorry, but "offensive or inappropriate" are subjective. What is offensive to you might not be offensive to me. Who is to judge?
Sorry, I can't hear you (Score:2)
Over the swishing sound of of my modded characters giant FUTA cock.
Funny (Score:2)
It's been banned in a couple of countries do to offensive content.
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I didn't do it (Score:2)
Hey, FF designers are the ones who created Fran and I thank them for the fantasy:
"a dark-skinned Viera with long white hair and black-tipped leporine ears, and wearing armor that resembles metallic lingerie, and stiletto heels with claw motifs."
I've heard from reliable sources that thousands of game servers exist solely for the purpose of providing a place to hang out with scantily clad Viera NPCs in VR.