Thread: 5.2 Info thread

Originally Posted by LastRavenX

I think your overreacting a bit. Most people who raid only use act most of them don't depend on stuff like the trigger call outs and the marker placer one is really like the lowest priority one. Since most of the time someone just places markers normally anyway xD or we all have different marker setups. I feel like this was just cause of the twitch incident where a streamer got banned for targeting x player with harassment on stream.

It isn't Arthars that prompted this but the World First group. People noticed the marker placement program, which became increasingly prevalent on streams. I think it's a bit silly how they're reacting to it since most used that program for convenience sake. It's annoying to have readjust markers constantly. Ironically, they made their own version of it.

Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

Exactly.

They know it, we know it, yet they continue to pretend it's evil and no one parses and the game is all rainbows and sunshine. Meanwhile low dps players are kicked with zero input, the raiders have to work with clunky third party tools that the devs have little input on, ps4 players are excluded entirely and you have to sneak around like a naughty child pretending you don't use it just to maintain this illusion. If abuse over dps is harassment, you can enforce that rule even with parsers. They're in denial and have their fingers in their ears. It's frustrating. They won't even consider a parser strictly limited to EX content upwards or adding one to SSS.

It'd be interesting to see what would happen if thousands of raiders came together at once and openly posted to Enix "I parse in savage, ban me, I dare you".

We essentially do. Raiders watch streams of Savage and Ultimate where ACT is prominently displayed. It's actively talked about on reddit and even on the forums themselves.

Their stance is silly but not unsurprising. They want to ensure a hugbox where no one feels bad, which is ironic considering as you put, people will simply kick without saying a word. I suppose the logic their is the person can easily dismiss said kick as not their fault. My own theory is they don't want to deal with having to actually police players who will legitimately harass people. So it's easier to let it stay a third party tool they can blanket ban you on. Less work on their end.

I notice he just used an example of one pluggin/trigger their are others not just markers. I'm surprised they just realized this they might want take a look under the hood abit more often. Not against DPS meter but where trigger/plugging are concern they might want to check out that some more. Imo

Originally Posted by Raiya

From reddit but the whole 3rd party statement might not be simply down to "rule 34" mode mods but down to a rather high profile case that popped up a while back

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ter_months_of/

After Arthas or whatever called got banned they seemed to be more aggressive towards Mods and 3rd party tools, to be fair they dont mind if ure using dps meter for the improvement of yourself and your group. But if ure calling out someone else and in a non costrunctive friendly way IT IS harassment and it should be punished. As others stated before ACT helps determine what went wrong in the progression of harder content and people to learn/figure out proper rotations, its an important part of the game, but those that use it to harass will probably get punished and they will deserve it imo. telling someone "hurr durr your dps is trash git gud" isnt constructive nor helpful its toxicity xD

Originally Posted by Vahlnir

From what I've read from a few translations? Yeah, basically. I think my only bone to pick with all of that was this bit...

"If you call out someone for low DPS, the problem isn't even just using a 3rd party tool, its harassment"

I'm not entirely sure what he means by that, especially since he mentioned parsers right before this, but I know how it sounds to me. Does that mean that we can't call anyone out ever, even constructively? If so that's...kinda bull. I've never used a parser, but we don't need parsers to be able to tell when someone is underperforming. At the end of the day though I am glad that they have finally drawn their line in the sand on the matter of mods and 3rd party tools like parsers.

People have been getting banned regularly for criticizing other players for anything, if they hadn't said anything before they are just being vocal about it. I think SE and companies nowadays just don't want to deal with the mass report mentality of the past 10 years anymore.

Originally Posted by Liam_Harper

Exactly.

They know it, we know it, yet they continue to pretend it's evil and no one parses and the game is all rainbows and sunshine. Meanwhile low dps players are kicked with zero input, the raiders have to work with clunky third party tools that the devs have little input on, ps4 players are excluded entirely and you have to sneak around like a naughty child pretending you don't use it just to maintain this illusion. If abuse over dps is harassment, you can enforce that rule even with parsers. They're in denial and have their fingers in their ears. It's frustrating. They won't even consider a parser strictly limited to EX content upwards or adding one to SSS.

It'd be interesting to see what would happen if thousands of raiders came together at once and openly posted to Enix "I parse in savage, ban me, I dare you".

Why would I pretend I don't play on PS4? I am very open about it, and I play just fine. I've never been abused for it either. I prefer to play this game on my gorgeous 60 inch 4K display, not hunched over a computer.