Use of tools that allow players to more easily complete content. Discord?

[Grebeny]

Discord is obviously allowed. We all agree on how stupid it would be if it wasnt. The point of threads like this is not to argue that discord should get you banned, it's to prove that just pointing at the ToS and go "well read what's written" is meaningless. Rules need to be interpreted for the goal they are trying to achieve, not followed to the letter. The ToS are not meant to enable malicious brigade reports, they are meant to solve actual problems. No one who report brigaded had an actual problem with the first streamer they hit, it was just to try it out.

It is pretty clear what they mean. Third party tool is something that interacts with the game in a way. Changing files, packages, collecting online data and so on. There is no need for Square enix to explain you that, go to any IT in the world and ask them what third party tool attached to another tool is and they will tell you, your claim "it is not clear if discord is third party tool or not", is a joke.

And a lot of mods/third party tools dont have a negative impact or provide more upsides than downsides. In the case of ACT it's already covered under harassment if you decide to be a toxic person with ACT.

ACT is not covered by the harrasment, but by the no third party agreement. Yoshida claimed they can't catch you if you are using one, but they will ban you if you try to use ACT to harass people, interviews are not ToS, they are just a conversation, do you understand the difference?

I reject this notion that if SE would do nothing after mass reports it would harm their reputation and make them look incompetent. It proves the opposite. It shows that they wont just cave in to some stupid demand just because a lot of malicious people yell about it. Instead they commit to their current approach. What makes them look incompetent is at the same time admitting that the UI features in this game are lacking and then banning people for fixing it.

This is really bad argument. First at all, not all of the mods that were on the banned streamers were "quality of life", if I have "aura" around enemy players in a shooter even when they are behind wall, it is just UI, do you still call it quality of life or cheating? Square enix told that they will look into it and decide what to add, that does not mean they will add the exact modification the streamers were banned for. Even if they do so, if they decided this is giving the players advantage at this point of time, at this point of time when the ban is taking place, those people have advantage above the players without the mod, even if it is added to the game later on, it is still cheating at the moment when it is used.