So apparently FFXIV-App is banworthy now?

[KaiKatzchen]

There's an earlier post about the use of other apps (post1802194), but there are also other threads like this one.

I had also thought that there was dev confirmation that FFXIV was planning on supporting third party addons in the future, and I'd love to hear an official response from SE in regards to parsing apps and whether or not they are in violation of the ToS >.<. Fingers crossed that there'll be a dev response here, or that maybe they'll reply to this Gamerescape post: Confusion Regarding Parsers and Third Party Applications For FFXIV Players.

I have an honest question, (and sorry it’s not directed towards you specifically, more so the info you linked to.) since I do know about programming but I’m not going to claim to be an expert:

I see a lot of people using the info above and that quote from the Dev to say that SE said parsers are approved in game with this information. But that quote was specifically towards the player asking if tunneling software was ok. Now from what I understand:

Tunneling software/VPN: has to do with incompatible or insecure networks and either stabilizing or creating a safe and/or secure path.

Parser: takes (or reads) damage data that players are doing in the game and puts it into an easy to read format to see who is doing damage.

Now if I am understanding it correctly, a tunneling software wouldn’t do anything to the game, it has to do with securing or working with the connection. Where parser, in a way, is taking info from the game (be it data mining it out or reading it) to show that info in another way.

So to me it doesn’t seem that the two are in anyway alike or related. So if the Dev said the tunneling software, which doesn’t even touch the game in any way, would be ok to use at his own risk; it can’t really be used to defend a parser which does read and/or pull data from the game so is working with the game in some way.

If this is correct, then it seems to me people are using that quote in an inappropriate context or misleading way to try and validate a point

Or am I missing something?