Going on 2 hours of radio silence after logging in to find my character in GM jail

[van_arn]

Now I’m about to ask a question, just a question so I don’t want a big fight or anything, but how many bans have to happen because of parsing to make people not do it, or is this a hill to die on?

I mean personally if someone is parsing I think they assume the risk that they know it’s against the TOS(if they agree with the rule or not)and could be banned.

The problem with parsing is in its widespread use of players flagrantly ignoring the TOS. Square can't ban enough people to make a difference without hurting their bottom line, their community, and their content.

This is why prohibition fails; if enough flatly ignore a law, it becomes unenforceable due to the logistics of policing so many people at once. Same with TOS violations: if it would hurt Square more (in subs, retention, or participation rates) to enforce their TOS to the letter than just let it slide, then it slides.

Seriously, can you imagine how much damage content creators like Happy or Work to Game or Larry could do to this company if Square straight-up banned them all for using a parser? Square might be "justified" by their TOS, but there's still significant extralegal risk for them in going up against people that are this important in the community. And that's just three off the top of my head, not all of which I personally consider important.

Of course I would never parse, myself. That would be naughty.