Absolute frustration at not being able to see my own DPS (ps4)

[Gilraen]

It's against human equality to allow one group of people access to self improvement and the other group isn't.

You're confusing a video game with basic civil liberties. A video game is, first and foremost, someone else's property. MMOs especially. All you buy, if you are buying a physical object, is the object the game is on. You can stomp on that object. You can run that object through a dish washer or clothes dryer. You can even use it in your game console to play said game! But the game itself does not belong to you. You have no right to any of that game's code. All buying the game did was give you the privilege of playing it. The reason third party software can get you banned is because it interfaces with the game in a way Square doesn't allow. Again, it's all laid out, in legally binding print, in the EULA (or TOS, same thing). Civil rights do not apply.

[UBERHAXED]

You're confusing a video game with basic civil liberties. A video game is, first and foremost, someone else's property. MMOs especially. All you buy, if you are buying a physical object, is the object the game is on. You can stomp on that object. You can run that object through a dish washer or clothes dryer. You can even use it in your game console to play said game! But the game itself does not belong to you. You have no right to any of that game's code. All buying the game did was give you the privilege of playing it. The reason third party software can get you banned is because it interfaces with the game in a way Square doesn't allow. Again, it's all laid out, in legally binding print, in the EULA (or TOS, same thing). Civil rights do not apply.

It's worth noting that your argument is based solely on interfacing with the game. If we have a dps meter which does not interact with the game whatsoever, then it cannot be considered third party for purposes of the EULA. Otherwise, SE can ban players for having arbitrary software, like Itunes or Internet Explorer, on their machines. That being said, what ever software you guys call a "parser" (largely inaccurate considering the name is based on legacy methods) can use network traffic, for example, to accomplish the same task. And practically everything from your OS to your ISP has records of your network traffic, so...