SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Amberyl]

Whatever Sega did during the beta stages of the game is irrelevant to how that clause of the ToS is treated now, which is identical to how Square has treated the ToS with regards to parsing

One boils down to being unable to apply a ban consistently due to the game being FTP, and the offending player being able to roll another account without issue. The other boils down to the server being unable to detect the exploit in the first place. They are not comparable issues. If SE rolled out a gameguard system, you can guarantee parser players would disappear overnight.

Only someone who's on shaky ground with their statements grasps at semantics. Dig?

Relating a cultural failing has little to do with grasping at semantics.