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

[Saraide]

At this point it seem SE really only cares about addon usage in world first videos and when it makes the news. There was a prominent member of the parsing and raiding comunity in NA who got caught red handed both using and developing cheats for other players and nothing happened. They even admitted to it and a whole lot of nothing happened, they're still allowed to keep their omega weapon and spot in the world first race.
I guess at this point I have to change my mind about 3rd party addons, this situation seems like a full on go ahead to put whatever you want on your game as long as you aren't a world first raider and don't get caught, cheat all you want.

What's the point in me progging Ultimates for dozens of hours for a clear when I can just installl automarker, cactbot, and splatoon and clear in a day and a half? I get the same result, SE won't punish me, they sure don't even punish members of the press circuit who get caught using and benefitting from these, so why should I adhere to playing vanilla without addons? I wouldn't be opposed to having anticheat but without it and in the current situation why would anyone not install everything they can? it's not like there will be any actual consequences.

Is the only drive for you to do content to have something to show off with?

[Rhael]

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.

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 poor performance is widespread in this game, so much that people feel entitled to defend their own poor performance on the official forums openly.

[Kazhar]

What's the point in me progging Ultimates for dozens of hours for a clear when I can just installl automarker, cactbot, and splatoon and clear in a day and a half?

Fun. Personal satisfaction. Does it matter if people cheated or bought their clears? If you feel the title you got mean something to you, this is all that matters. If you only want the title because of other people's perceptions, you're in the wrong mindset to even tackle this content in the first place.
I highly doubt you would clear any recent ultimate in a day and a half even with all tools available though (unless you're botting outright). While it's undoubtedly a huge benefit, people seriously overestimate how much callouts and such could help you in Ultimates, or even just Savage.

[HikariKurosawa]

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 poor performance is widespread in this game, so much that people feel entitled to defend their own poor performance on the official forums openly.

Yes, so when the majority of the community uses addons that increase their parse, this distorts the bigger picture. Inflates the heads of many small gamers, while also making the achievements of real gamers less impressive.

What do you want? A cookie for cheating?

[HikariKurosawa]

Fun. Personal satisfaction. Does it matter if people cheated or bought their clears? If you feel the title you got mean something to you, this is all that matters. If you only want the title because of other people's perceptions, you're in the wrong mindsight to even tackle this content in the first place.
I highly doubt you would clear any recent ultimate in a day and a half even with all tools available though (unless you're outright). While it's undoubtedly a huge benefit, people seriously overestimate how much callouts and could help you in Ultimates, or even just Savage.

It 100% matters and until you are banned square enix will continue to suffer losses and damages to their image.

[Rhael]

Yes, so when the majority of the community uses addons that increase their parse, this distorts the bigger picture. Inflates the heads of many small gamers, while also making the achievements of real gamers less impressive.

What do you want? A cookie for cheating?

I don't use addons. I don't need them to push my buttons in the right order.

[HikariKurosawa]

I don't use addons. I don't need them to push my buttons in the right order.

I'm sure nobody posting in this thread uses addons

Let's clear a few things up too. I haven't been playing this game since long before dragonflight came out. I stopped playing in the first savage raid tier when I realized that P3S was a bit too much to take on in PF at the time. People were hardstuck on P2S and it was hard to form groups.

I was only brought here because of what happened with the world first scandal. I didn't know how bad the addon problem was, and I had already been losing interest in this game because the content rolls out so slowly. Now that I know the addon problem is as bad as it is? Why would I ever subscribe to this game of sanctioned cheaters? It's different in WoW because it is officially supported and I don't have to download sketchy unsupported addons that are hidden in the dark web because they are against the ToS.

Why would I support a company that supports cheating directly? All the ultimate weapons used to look so cool and I'd actually feel respect for the players holding them, now? It just feels cringe to look at. 99% chance they abused cheats to get the weapon.

You cheaters are the reason we will be under surveillance, and for what? Because you didn't want to achieve things without cheating in a video game. That is why we will be brought under surveillance: because you can't help from CHEATING IN A VIDEO GAME.

[Vahlnir]

one extremely vocal and toxic minority of the community

Pot, meet kettle.

[Kazhar]

No clue what you're talking about. Anyone can be better than someone who is playing this game for story.

Stop talking to yourself too, the only people who suck so much at this game are the ones using addons to cope with how bad they are. Every single thing you do is invalidated because you are a cheater.

I'd say true losers are those who blame their own failings on an increasing numbers of excuses instead of trying to get better.
You're not bad, it's the fault of those dirty cheaters who uses dps meters and chat bubbles!
By the way, while your gimmick is certainly cute, there's probably a more interesting story beneath all that. You said you cleared P1S and P2S at some point, and that you consider savage content the true RPG experience. But they were released more than 6 months ago, what made you stop?

EDIT: Oh, you edited your previous post right as I asked. Nevermind then. More self-righteousness, who would have thought.

[Vahlnir]

what made you stop?

Something something toxic minority. Something something 3rd party tools. Calling it now.