I haven’t been active with ffxiv’s screenshot community in a long time and I just want to rant somewhere.
I kind of think this is a taboo subject, since there’s so many people who 100% support it; but I think modding ruined the screenshot community for me. Feel free to unfollow this me if this bothers you. My time has come and gone, and I’m just feeling sad. Around the time I started screenshotting my character, gpose had recently come out and had become an easier way for us as players to screenshot and be creative with our characters. Finding emotes, timing, reshade and shaders to improve the quality was all there was.
However, a few short months after we started to see the *drastic* modding. Such as whole new outfits, whole new hairs, complete redos of our characters, custom posing, tools to cheat fantasias, and so much more. This was when I really started to feel out of place. The community used to feel like a place to just share screenshots, but it began to feel like a place to showcase the new shiny mods.. In the end it’s probably just wasted breath, since I know I could of just joined in and downloaded mods to enjoy the same benefits. But it’s really lost that spark for me.
