Quote Originally Posted by Rinuko View Post
ACT is starting to become the standard 3rd party app it feels like, the devs are going with turning a blind eye on it.
Idk what the number of users but in XI we had Windower and nobody ever got banned to my knowledge from using it and it was probably used by large marjority of its PC playerbase in its glorydays.

Now the small dev team that maintains XI has implemented the core features (that most people wanted) into the XI client so of course they could add a in-game parser if they chose too, difference is they are "too scared" people being picked on which is a lame excuse imho.
I played Neverwinter Nights before getting into modern MMORPGs and that game exposed all of the dice rolls to the player. When I encounter people who react like, "YOU PARSE!!! I'M TELLING ON YOU TO A GM!!! *foaming at mouth and vibrating uncontrollably*" I am kind of stunned. My first reaction is to think, "Um, you are playing a game that revolves around numbers and has roots way back in dice rolling RPGs. You can't be serious." But they are serious and some people are really offended by the idea that their toon's abilities can be measured with numbers. My second reaction is to think of some way to find a compromise where SE might give a little and maybe we can calm these paranoid people down a bit because I do think that they are making a mountain out a mole hill.