Quote Originally Posted by KisaiTenshi View Post
Refer to this
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._bad_news_for/


As much as I'd love to see Yoshi-P deliberately break all the tools, It would take elliptic-curve cryptography to prevent the FFXIV ACT Plugin from being able to record that data in the first place (as opposed to the fixed key to access the lobby). Yet it's likely they'd just use an off-the-shelf crypto, which would just add more latency and increase the minimum CPU requirements. The only reason it works at all is because the existing plugin only needs to use zlib, and not for very much.

The irony is, Yoshi-P is clearly aware of the kinds of cheating going on, and hasn't cracked down on players doing it, which ends up giving the impression that nobody will ever be punished for ANY kind of automated play.

The very definition of cheating is "to violate rules or regulations"
If Yoshida is fully aware of these 3rd-party tools and isn't doing anything to punish the users then clearly he doesn't care, so why do you care if Yoshi-P doesn't care?