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Harvey Randall

In the wake of shutting down a highly popular mod, Final Fantasy 14 director Yoshi-P shares deeply earnest blog about 'mods, their use, and the culture surrounding them'

Portrait of Japanese video games developer Naoki Yoshida, photographed in London on November 21, 2019. Yoshida is best known for his work on the Final Fantasy series of games.

In case you're unfamiliar with the Final Fantasy 14 community, recently, a mod named Mare Synchronos—which had many thousands of users at its peak—was sent a cease & desist order. The mod in question allowed players to share their modded appearances with each other, either via an individual code, or by allowing players to join 'syncshells'.

From a community standpoint, Mare was used in two ways—either for innocuous roleplayers or outfit enthusiasts to customise their character, say, by giving a human model pointy ears—or, and I say this without judgement, smut. There is an enormous underground modding scene in Final Fantasy 14, covering both adult and non-adult content.

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