Originally Posted by
TessaJalloh
no dear.
A third party tool is ANY software that interacts with the first party program that isn't officially sanctioned and created by the first party. Parsers read information that is logged by the first party (the game) but allow you to then use that logged information in a way that is not usable by those without the parser.
It's third party, no matter how you swing it. Don't be naive about these things, if you're using a parser, don't talk about it. fight club.