Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
They do that only in non-network mode. And even then, that is not accurate. They either read network data, or they read the system's memory. They do not go off log files.
That's not how it works at all for any game that doesn't have a built-in plugin or support interface. A program cannot ping the game servers for data if there is no system implemented to give a response. It can only read the data coming back from the servers which is sent to that log file.