Quote Originally Posted by Kerii View Post
Contrary to popular opinion there is no such thing as a gray area in ToS agreements.
I would actually argue there is and name parsing as example. From your link:

The following activities are also prohibited in FINAL FANTASY XIV.
•Modifying, analyzing, integrating and reverse engineering game data

It is very clearly prohibited to analyze the game data. Also, using third party tools is strictly prohibited. As such, parsing is a very clear cut case of cheating/prohibited activities. Despite this, Yoshi-P himself made a post on the PvP forums in which he considered changing log data for PvP in order to prevent parsing there, rather than acting against the violation as a whole. I'm very much inclined to argue that grey areas exist if the lead developer actively tries to protect a certain form of ToS violation.