Quote Originally Posted by StealthPaladin View Post
Only thing I'd counter is Discord DOES break the current ToS as a 3rd party tool, though true I don't believe that is the intent of the rule at all. However Discord does interface with the game process to provide overlays and show status especially. Currently that is bannable, but they look the other way as you point out for many types of mods.

Ok... please show me the EXACT sections of the ToS you are refeering to that would make discord "a bannable 3rd party app" if you are refeering to the "prohibited action" lists of "behavior that affects game balance"

"- Modifying, analyzing, integrating, and/or reverse-engineering game software or data.
- Creating, distributing, using, or promoting utilities that interact with the game."



You are grossely misinterpreting what "interacting with the game" means
interacting with the process to get its name and runtime(aka discord status) isnt "interacting with the game" its "interacting with the process" if interacting with the process itself is illegal then... litteraly any program ever would be banned as almost any programm interacts with the process list, and by extension FFXIV


The overlay is similar, it dosnt interact with the game, at MOST it interacts with the process directly(and at that point we need to REALLY talk definition of "interacting"), it interacts with OS level features and hooks into the DirectX/OpenGL calls




"the game" is not identical to "the process"


~~what is interesting tho, i saw a lot of people(not here) argue that ACT is "technicaly fine as long as its not used to insult people as it just reads the network logs and not anything in the game itself" however, by the definition of "prohibited actions" ACT 100% analyizes Game data(however it technically dosnt interact with the game or process itself)~~