Let's talk about placing markers during fights.

[SaitoHikari]

The thing that gets me is that this is in response to a third party program. It's not just that, they basically designed their own system with the presets that can more or less replace it. Or well, it would have completely invalidated any reason to even consider using that program in the first place, if they didn't gut the ability to move markers mid-fight.

Taking options away from players to combat third party programs is a bad move in most cases. The best move is to incorporate what it does in official ways or make other, less restrictive adjustments so that they're no longer necessary. SE just stumbled at the last critical step for reasons that I can't find any logic in. If they simply let people move markers mid-fight with the presets, this wouldn't have blown up at all.

SE actually successfully killed off a third party app with this type of concept about 3-4 years ago, although they did have to restrict something since there was no reasonable alternative solution when dealing with bots. There was one called Guildwork that many PC players used, that had the ability to block chat messages sent to the user in-game if they contained certain key words or phrases. Many used it to combat the literal deluge of gold selling RMT tells during that era. Any *legitimate* reason to continue using the program died when SE stopped trial accounts from being able to send tells. The creator of that program stopped updating it at the beginning of Stormblood, and it's no longer in use.

(I say 'legitimate' because it had another feature that's unrelated to the RMT situation. It also called out positions of hunt mobs. *That* nobody should condone, and does indeed cross the line into actual cheating.)