Can we take action against Bard Macro Player yet?

[Xhanth]

There isn't any real way to actually ban them because FF14 doesn't have malware etched into it to see your running programs like other MMOs do. It would be based on manual reporting and people that were actually playing might get banned for being too good, although it is painfully obvious to tell when a program is being used.

Really the only solution would be community driven. The other day I saw a bunch of people hyped up about someone playing a Dragonforce midi saying "Omg they're so good", and me and a few others explained it they were using a program, but there are people that are actually good. If someone's using a macro I just walk away but will stay and listen if they aren't.

[AlyCat]

do you have this same attitude outside of the game? the elitism is boring. let people have their harmless fun in a game we all pay to enjoy in various ways.

[Puremallace]

do you have this same attitude outside of the game? the elitism is boring. let people have their harmless fun in a game we all pay to enjoy in various ways.

I mean if you wanted to show some serious skill then play original songs on the whatever instrument then tell people in shout chat to come listen. Why people are not doing this by now is amazing to me.

[kaynide]

I mean if you wanted to show some serious skill then play original songs on the whatever instrument then tell people in shout chat to come listen. Why people are not doing this by now is amazing to me.

Because generally speaking actual music skill does not translate to FFXIV’s music system without specialized equipment that converts an actual musical instrument input into keystrokes. Which is itself a third party tool.

There will be some who actually put the time and effort into learning how to play the computer keyboard as an instrument, but those people are pretty rare.

[Awha]

There isn't any real way to actually ban them because FF14 doesn't have malware etched into it to see your running programs like other MMOs do. It would be based on manual reporting and people that were actually playing might get banned for being too good, although it is painfully obvious to tell when a program is being used.

Really the only solution would be community driven. The other day I saw a bunch of people hyped up about someone playing a Dragonforce midi saying "Omg they're so good", and me and a few others explained it they were using a program, but there are people that are actually good. If someone's using a macro I just walk away but will stay and listen if they aren't.

It might be painfully obvious at times but I have a friend who was playing music people accused them of using a program so let a mans use my twitch and we streamed them playing and gave those that were saying otherwise the link. I told them not to let it bother them but unfortunately many put tye validation of others as an important benchmark for success or even happiness.

With that as you mentioned people generally do not understand what they are asking for trying to enforce such a standard would lead to many false positives and people getting strikes for no reason.

Though even have a community driven effort has potential to back fire and may even lead to some getting harassed. In the end as other said people should just let people be not like we have a competitive boarding.