Letter to MR Yoshi: Why parses system is destroying the ffxiv world.

[SaitoHikari]

I am not too sure about another healer main giving their two cents on something that is primarily the only consistent measurable form of accountability for DPS classes either.

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"

Oh. I had forgotten about that. Although that was probably because this still isn't directly related to parsing at all, other than using the same tool to do that.

Even so, I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone that will actually argue that this isn't actual cheating. Parsing at the end of the day is still just reading numbers, it doesn't give any outside assistance on how to actually solve mechanics like the above.