Quote Originally Posted by HyoMinPark View Post

SE won't do anything about mods or parser users because it will hurt their bottom line, or people will just find workarounds. Ban ACT > raiders quit or find alternatives. Ban mods > modders quit or find alternatives. Crackdown so much to install detection software that immediately destroys any sort of connection to third-party tools > people quit or find workarounds.

You talk about ceasing the spotlight, but you continue to shine it plenty yourself, so much so you brought parsers into a thread that had nothing to do with them. Perhaps take your own advice?
I'm not the one that created the thread. But everyone who jumped in to defend one violation, doesn't want their personal mod, tool, hack, bot, etc to get banned by someone putting the spotlight on what SE is letting slide. I'm just saying why.

You keep thinking that "SE won't do anything", because that is exactly what kind attitude makes people think they will never be punished for modding or using third party tools. I don't use any of these things, but I'm fully aware of what exists, and it takes no effort to find. Don't want to see ACT get banned, then quit bringing it up on the forums. Don't want your modified textures to earn a ban, then don't post screenshots with them. And your comparisons to photoshop are ridiculous, that's like trying to say every somehow every screenshot with X texture has been photoshoped with exactly the same textures from the 3D system. No, nobody would buy that. The fact that some people throw some ugly ReShade filters over top doesn't hide it either, and only throws cold water on "photoshop". Really, someone can photoshop freckles onto a Miqo'te but can't do a depth of field effect to save their life? Please. Those are texture swaps and a reshade filter by someone who doesn't know what they're doing. Do I care about mods like that? No. But then some fool will come along and post a screen shot of that texture as part of or packed with a lewd mod and now it's assumed both are part of the same mod.

If SE wants to, they can break all this stuff, I've explained exactly how they could a few pages back. Any other MMO game, a thread like this would be locked or deleted before the weekend. 5 Days have passed, so clearly SE hasn't done anything, so you're going to now try and tell me that this is SE endorsing modding because threads about it aren't speedily deleted.