Quote Originally Posted by Tridus View Post
I used the G keys on my Logitech keyboard to automate opening lockboxes in Eureka, and the keyboard driver is a third party tool. I await my ban.

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What's that? SE doesn't actually enforce that when it's not being used against another player? Huh. Maybe the actual enforced rules aren't quite what you think they are...
ACT automates an activity without user interaction, but by data present in the game client's memory or network buffer, just like a bot does. A Keyboard/Mouse macro is initiated by the user without any data from the game being used to trigger it.

People doing texture swaps aren't exactly being under the radar when they post screenshots of their characters with them in the screenshot threads. Your keyboard macro is not different from ReShade either. ReShade changes the shaders loaded on the GPU, not the game.

The rules are written so they can be enforced against people who are ruining the game experience. The people who say they're using mods or ACT on the forum are the ones mocking SE, on their own site. The way the rules are written, any macro software, regardless if it comes with the keyboard and mouse, or AH/AI which is what all the crappy spam bots are made with are considered the same, but you're not using your keyboard macro to spam "buy gil" are you? You don't go fishing and catch all the fish in the lake. Did you not see the large uptick in account bans recently? Consider that GM's seem to hand out temporary bans for swearing in the game according to people on Reddit.

The point I've been making throughout this thread is that people being careless is what causes a crackdown, and there are a LOT of people being careless on the forum right now. Don't cry victim if one day management at FFXIV decides they've had enough, I've seen it happen in other games. In the same comment that Yoshi-P said he knows about these tools, he also said to not put a spotlight on it. Que Sera, Sera.