Please add something to FFXIV that disables 3rd party software interactions.

[Enla]

Most ppl who parse don't ask and don't tell. They just Kick you.

I'd like to see statistics on that, given that most people I know who parse use it as a personal measuring stick. I've never seen someone kicked for low numbers. I have seen people kicked for constantly failing mechanics and being rude however.

[HWalsh]

For bot programs? Yes. For parsers? No, Yoshi-P doesn't consider them cheating. He just doesn't like the toxicity they bring, hence the don't ask don't tell stance SE has kept for the past few years. So long as you don't out yourself as using one and use that to harass people you won't get in trouble. Yoshi-P has himself even admitted to watching World First streams for content where parsers are clearly displayed in the video.

I don't care what Yoshi-P thinks. The ToS is the ToS.

[Vaunhause]

Sure, just disable 3rd party software. Like the ping enhancer I need to play the game.

That's one way to get me to unsub.

[Avidria]

I don't care what Yoshi-P thinks. The ToS is the ToS.

And SE gets to decide how and when to enforce it.

They know when and how and why parsers are used. They know what the consequences would be if they actively sought out and banned everyone who uses a parser, or found some way to stop them from working for tood. (if such a thing is even possible). And they've decided not to do that.

[Alucard135]

I don't care what Yoshi-P thinks. The ToS is the ToS.

He gets to choose whether to enforce it nor not. Their game, their rules.

[EaMett]

The vocal minority of the anti-parser groups flare up every once in a while, especially at the start of new content.

Especially when this tier has pretty decent dps checks (in savage).

[KageTokage]

There is no magical way to stop programs reading and writing memory. It's fact. They could implement something that would stop the current programs, but would only be a matter of days before that is circumvented. It has been and always will be a losing battle. Only way to stop botting is to shut off the servers.

The RMT bots, maybe, though even they exploit very obvious flaws in the game's design that could be fixed if they actually wanted to.

It takes way too long to level DoL/H bots for them to be difficult to control with a half-way competent enforcement team.

[NessaWyvern]

It would also affect those who have graphical mods in the game, which wouldnt be a huge loss, we wouldn't get people posting screenshots of naked Ryne models anymore.
TBF, lots of people post their modded screenshots in the official forums, and they have never gotten in trouble for it, so GMs probably don't care much about it.

[Callinon]

Most ppl who parse don't ask and don't tell. They just Kick you.

Most people who use parsers don't tell you about it and don't particularly care when you're talking about leveling dungeons which I believe the OP was. Like seriously... I don't care what your Sastasha dps is or your Rabanastre dps for that matter. Your dps matters when there are dps checks you can reasonably fail. So we're talking about current content only, EX trials and savage raids where your dps actually matters. Leveling dungeons? Nobody cares but you.

[Granyala]

It would also affect those who have graphical mods in the game

Yup I would certainly miss my Re-Shade plugin. The white veil and crappy Anti Aliasing of the base game are so lame.