Concerning recent developments of third party addons, and SE's DADT stance

[JunseiKei]

Why is it so hard to admit that certain programs equal to cheating?

Is auto waymark placement much different from aimbots in shooter games?

Is it even fine to predict incoming mechanics several seconds before they actually happen in the game? Yeah, human raid leaders can also do these, I'm sure. Heh.

When SE does not provide an opinion on this matter, it just escalates until it cannot be left alone, as SE has been doing until now.

Auto skill rotation performing and auto movement incoming, fellas. This won't be a simple joke at this rate.

The thing is, SE has provided an opinion on them. It's in the ToS - third party programs are a reportable offense that can lead to the termination of your account. However, they also turn a blind eye to users because it's a don't ask, don't tell policy. Basically, don't lead on to the fact that you are using a parser and you'll never have to worry about being reported (or don't be an absolute moron and demean someone on stream, especially if you have a large following).

I don't like these third party applications. It removes a huge element from the game that is known as human error. It's just always come across to me as taking a test with a sheet of answers next to you; all that you need to do is place your name and make sure you're providing the correct answer to the correct question and showing work where needed. For things like the placing marker addons, it can be done mid-fight, too. Someone with a dive-bomb marker, or can mark a single safe spot on the fly, also removes a huge part of difficulty and human error. This includes this newer add-on, as well as things like a bot in Discord can tell you, say, where Titan is going to slam his fist down well before his animation starts. I am being all inclusive here.

The actual parsing part? I don't see a need for it either. Most people seem to use it for seeing how much damage they, or other people do or don't do. People that go to the lengths to find the program and improve are already better players than those that simply don't care at all and just hit buttons. They've probably read their skilltips, researched rotations, etc. People that don't do that? A parser isn't going to make them better. The other benefit of the add-on and site, being able to analyze what went wrong, is hardly ever talked about with those that say why they use it. Those that want to quickly analyze something often just pull up a clip of a pull and quickly look through it. The triggers being another huge reason as to why they use it. XIV isn't exactly a hard MMO to begin with, so I really have a hard time being persuaded by the crowds that continually say these tools are needed.