Quote Originally Posted by Alucard135 View Post
SE won't bother with this issue because they know it will open up a huge can of worms on them regarding parsers and bots. Furthermore, it doesn't negatively affect their sales from mogstation (the fact that they started modding the demonic and angelic attire from release day indicates that they already purchased it).
Are you sure about that? How do you know they didn't just swap the models?

Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post
The only way SE could actually identify modders if is they install a client-side detector that can detect when game files are read/modified. This would also get rid of ACT and ReShade, and, at that point, SE would be hurting their bottom line.
That's very wrong. SE doesn't need to install anything like Hackshield or GameGaurd, or VAC, or Warden, etc. Those tools are defeated. What would be needed is hook rejection code (which would also break tools like nVidia Experience, AMD ReLive/Raptr, MSI Afterburner, OBS, etc) that requires static compilation (no third-party libraries, no CRT/CPPRT DLL) to avoid CRT patching, and encryption of both the game binaries and the assets so that tampering with either prevents the game from running.

And thus increases support costs.

However as stated, many times, the game client can never be perfectly secured unless it's simply a video stream from a secured location. So why bother with the extra complication when it would mean having to re-download the complete game every time the protection system is broken.

No, at best, SE has not cracked down on modding, third party tools, etc, because up until relatively recently people were not putting a spotlight on it. SE can continue to ignore modding at it's own peril, and then when they finally decide to ban everyone, they will get a PR blowback because they hadn't enforced their ToS at all before. Either SE starts cracking down on known ACT users, or it's going to have to live with the lewd mods proliferating and ruining the game's reputation further.

I don't expect SE to do anything, really. Not till someone carelessly shows them on a twitch stream that SE staff are watching.