Quote Originally Posted by Avoidy View Post
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What I find so amusing about the "ban all third-party tools! ban everyone who uses them! give us anti-cheat software that detects it and BANS EVERYONE!" is that many don't realize just how many people use third-party tools. I'm fairly sure that modding your appearance is far more common than parsing. Way more common. Every day I see tons of screenshots with modded hairstyles, clothes, fatcat fairy and whatnot. There's a gigantic community that is really into this sort of thing and I'm not just talking about the RP scene, also that one is filled to the brim with people that use addons for chat bubbles in addition to appearance as well.
Then there's also people with visual impairment that use them to adjust colors or change the shape of markers or the UI.
Thinking that "third-party tool users = parsers = bad, we can ban them all without loss" is so incredibly stupid and naive.

You ban all 3rd party tools and anyone using them and you'd lose far more casual players than raiders and people that parse. But of course, when speaking about banning third-party tool users they usually mean people that parse. Not all people