They are actively working against the modding community by disabling family share preventing people from playing the game on alt accounts to avoid having their primary account banned for using mods that add more content to the game (like "Champion's Ashes" which adds a lot of cut items and bloodborn content to the game for PVP or "Cinders" which overhauls and rebalances the game. They might try to pass this off as something done to stop cheaters but they have been able to get other players banned without the anti-cheat tagging them for a long time. The choice of making this change right after a sale really makes it obvious that their trying to force players to pay full price if they want to use mods without banning their main account.

and to rub salt into the wound, if a hacker adds illegal items to your character and gets it banned, it is permanently blacklisted from the servers, not even rolling it back will do anything.

They are actively working against the modding community by disabling family share preventing people from playing the game on alt accounts to avoid having their primary account banned for using mods that add more content to the game (like "Champion's Ashes" which adds a lot of cut items and bloodborn content to the game for PVP or "Cinders" which overhauls and rebalances the game. They might try to pass this off as something done to stop cheaters but they have been able to get other players banned without the anti-cheat tagging them for a long time. The choice of making this change right after a sale really makes it obvious that their trying to force players to pay full price if they want to use mods without banning their main account. and to rub salt into the wound, if a hacker adds illegal items to your character and gets it banned, it is permanently blacklisted from the servers, not even rolling it back will do anything.