Quote Originally Posted by Krylo View Post
From what I understand, they need to make them against ToS because they want to make datamining patches and what not against ToS and there's no real way to word 'you can't mine this data but you can mine that data', PLUS it makes it much easier for them to punish people harassing other with the programs. Yoshi P himself has stated he understands the importance of parsers and they've posted world first clear videos/screens with parser overlays.

It's basically a DADT situation with parsers where they're technically not allowed but everyone knows people are using them and are fine with it as long as it isn't abused.
Data-miners spoil the game. The entire reason "data-mining" is even possible is because of people hacking the game with a goal to make bots, and this "information" is shared widespread. It doesn't matter that the same software's intent was to be a DPS parser, the exact same software also enables 90% of the RMT activity in the game.