World first Final Fantasy 14 raid team embroiled in cheating scandal - Polygon

This reveal, which documented the use of an illicit tool in worldwide challenge, has touched nearly all ends of the Final Fantasy 14 community, from regular players to top developers at Square Enix.

Director and producer Naoki Yoshida responded candidly to the matter by saying the use of third-party tools was “extremely disappointing.” Developers and moderators took swift punitive action by stripping all members of the team of their achievements and titles.

“It is extremely disappointing for me personally to see this commotion surrounding third-party tools once again in the wake of what happened with Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate),” Yoshida wrote.

Dragonsong’s Reprise (Ultimate) was a similar incident in which developers grappled with the use of third-party tools on the part of players clearing content.

On Jan. 30, about a week after the boss launched, members of a Japanese team called Unnamed_ shared screenshots documenting that they had been the first to clear the challenge.

However, video evidence uploaded just hours later showed that at least one of the players used third-party tools to adjust the camera angle of the field so that it was more zoomed out.