Yoshi-P "definitive" answer on third party tools from today's 14 hour stream

[caffe_macchiato]

Oh can it with the sob story about the game and parsing, will you? Nobody will play the violin for this, you can curb the drama. The community's always been passive-aggressive

Times like these need a firm hand. If the playerbase is unwilling to change—and why should it when it’s not a single person?—then we must have safeguards. We cannot trust all players to act in good faith, and rules are necessary to keep them in check.

The simplest choice that SE could make is to disable logging to a readable file. Either encrypt the log file or disable the battle log entirely. It’s a relic from FFXI and 1.0. With that removed, ACT and FFLogs immediately stops working. It’s a very simple change to implement. It could be as simple as devs remapping the default log directory to a non-existent directory thus disabling the file from being generated.

Sure, toxic behavior could continue afterwards, but on a much smaller scale. FFXIV is not some stone monument that can never be changed. It is a video game with updates. We don’t have to be like this.