Quote Originally Posted by Veis_Alveare View Post
You're ignoring the pick-and-choose mentality SE is using to enforce a (completely stupid and pointless) rule.

Imagine you're driving and the speed limit is 65mph. You do 70 because everyone is doing 70, not doing 70 would literally be impeding the flow of traffic. You're harming no one, in the middle of a big pack of cars all going the same speed with no issue... and you get pulled over. Just you

Does that seem unfair? If you've got any common sense at all the answer is yes.

Punishing people for things that just plain aren't enforceable is dumb. Punishing people for things that don't impact the game or other players of enjoyment of the game is dumb. Punishing people for picking up the slack and implementing a system to cover an obvious gap left by SE themselves is monumentally stupid.
Long ago I was driving down a residential street. I was last in line of about 3 cars making their way down, and we were all going about 40 MPH in a 35 zone. Guess what happened? Motorcycle cop was behind a bend, and he pulled me over as the 3 of us drove by.

I told him that I had just been going with the flow, but I still got the ticket anyway. Was I annoyed? Yes. Do I still remember it 15+ years later? Yes. lol. We were all breaking the speed limit, so it was well within the cop's position to give me a ticket.

There are rules stated that we all signed off on to play XIV. SE isn't going to be able to catch every last person who uses a parser, and perhaps they don't care to, but if you bring attention to yourself and end up getting a report? Well, that's on you. Just have to suck up whatever punishment you get. Doesn't matter if everyone else is doing it without getting caught. It's still a third-party tool, and still against the ToS.