Would you be opposed to SE implementing a program to scan for addons/parsers?

[elioaiko]

The day SE does this will not only kill raiding, but any meaningful combat content. I refuse to play a game where I can't even see if I'm doing well or bad. I like self-improvement, and the devs haven't added anything that would allow me to see so. And SSS is a practice dummy not a tool for improvement.

Also adding invasive programs like this is pretty much cancer for everything on your PC. You will affect anything you do. Take a lot at Valorant's anti-cheat program, it'll detect things and prevent them when it's not even for Valorant.

So no thank you, I would drop my sub the instant this happens and this is not because "I wanna mod, I wanna cheat, blah blah." Anti-cheat that scans your PC everytime you wanna play slows down your PC, gives more errors that you don't even know how to fix. It's way more trouble than it's worth.

It's invasive and counterintuitive.

[HikariKurosawa]

If you actually become familiar with your job instead of parses, you can see how close you are to the limit by how fluent your rotation is. It's all based on ilvl beyond that, so you're not actually increasing in skill. Just perceived skill because the number is going up with your gear upgrades.

Parses do not really give you good information. Knowing what you are doing does. If you need external metrics to measure your performance, maybe you should just practice your rotation better.

[HikariKurosawa]

You use and defend addons so almost every position you might take is invalid. Really out here publicly shaming someone for their natural performance and gloating about breaking tos lol.

People like you are why these games can't be taken seriously anymore. Go on, feel good about yourself for shaming me for a parse in a video game. It helps you get by. You need it.

There is huge irony in mentioning parses in a game where people use addons to get by. You are carried by third party addons, and the results of these addons skews the parses to make legit players like me look worse. Good for you? It's an invalid metric because it is spoiled by cheaters. ToS is what it is. You have not accomplished anything in this game.

[Corrupted]

I'll echo what the others said in here, since if SE really did decide to go after this they're not gonna pick and choose it'll be everything and that, will hurt the game more than help it. A friend of mine uses 2 mods for their frame rate and delay plus one for their connection stability.

Both do not alter the game, but they provide them info that they need with their slow internet in order to function. Many times when we try to pvp or que for frontline, they drop out due to being able to see their ping spikes and an unstable connection.
Point is, SE isn't gonna sift through all plugins & mods and either OK them or add them as a crappier feature in 5 years... They're gonna block all of it and that would plainly suck. So yeah, would be against it, heavily.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

honestly, I just did the content twice for the experience. Of course my parse will be bad. Especially in a game where I have to compete with people using addons. Every single good parse is paired with liberal addon usage. How could I compete with cheaters when I'm unwilling to break ToS and they are just so their parse is better?

You can be unhappy with your performance, but don't blame others breaking ToS for it, maybe they just tried harder, have more experience, or whatever. You can't just run around and say everyone above 25% is a cheater...

With that said : Although I do think SE would be legitimate scanning computers, and I wouldn't protest it, I also do think that whoever, in the playerbase, cares about what other players do and use is someone that gets his nose where he shouldn't. Why do you care ? Your neighbor bought his ultimate clear/got assistance from addons, and so, seeing his title angries you ? That's an issue on your part. If you need to feel validated in having a title only few people have, or worse, in not having a title so nobody else should have it, you should touch grass and focus on yourself.

[HikariKurosawa]

What I can say is that everyone above 90% parse is cheating, and probably even everyone above 80%.

Good luck competing with people who cheat when you don't. Parses are based on the community's performance, it's not some hypothetical. It is based on the state of reality. The reality is that cheating is widespread in this game, so much that people feel entitled to defend breaking ToS on the official forums openly.

[Vahlnir]

It's not something I would take on and it's not my concern. If I were on the square enix team, I would actively try to address the issue and crack down on cheating pretty hard. I'm not, so it's not my problem. I can only voice how the impact of addons makes this game feel extremely illegitimate, and how parses are no longer a valid metric of anything meaningful anymore with the prevalence of cheaters. Every legitimate player gets a significant tax to their parse when the majority of the "elite" playerbase is abusing addons to inflate their parses. It has a really foul impact on the greater picture of performance metrics. If you respect or take parses seriously, you might as well be complicit with cheaters.

@Iyrnthota everyone knows dot uptime should be 100%, and that the gcd should be constantly rolling. If you need an external source to tell you this, you have deeper concerns.

At the end of the day, this entire discussion and situation isn't as black and white as you want it to be, no matter how much you want it to be so. I've seen some harsh opposition to add-ons and mods through the years, but you are incredibly hostile. More than most I've seen. Perhaps you should take a step back for a moment and collect yourself.

[HikariKurosawa]

At the end of the day, this entire discussion and situation isn't as black and white as you want it to be, no matter how much you want it to be so. I've seen some harsh opposition to add-ons and mods through the years, but you are incredibly hostile. Perhaps you should take a step back for a moment and collect yourself.

I don't really agree and I think that your position on addons is influencing your emotional response a bit more than you might like.

[Vahlnir]

I don't really agree and I think that your position on addons is influencing your emotional response a bit more than you might like.

You wouldn't agree because you can't see it. I have no horse in this race other than perhaps advocating for SE to add certain features to better the game. I'm not the one with a problem here, trust me.

[HikariKurosawa]

You wouldn't agree because you can't see it. I have no horse in this race other than perhaps advocating for SE to add certain features to better the game. I'm not the one with a problem here, trust me.

There is no problem, I am criticizing the state of the game and voicing my perspective as someone who refuses to break ToS.