Would you be opposed to SE implementing a program to scan for addons/parsers?

[Rhael]

Encryption of the data does exist as a feature as for packets and the likes.

The client still needs to decrypt them into a readable format.

[Absimiliard]

Encryption of the data does exist as a feature as for packets and the likes.

They would have to rebuild practically the entire engine to make this work, not to mention the servers and several other things. It would require a significant investment of time, manpower, and resources. SE has none of these three things at the moment.

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

They would have to rebuild practically the entire engine to make this work, not to mention the servers and several other things. It would require a significant investment of time, manpower, and resources. SE has none of these three things at the moment.

Not that much, actually, but why would they do that, really ? They encrypt some models already, especially second phases for savage or ultimate (not actually encrypt, but make them unreadable until you get some packets, so yeah, kinda), but that matters because part of the excitement from savage/ultimate is seeing what comes next before the others.

Encrypting damage numbers ? Yikes. At best, they will lose time for a feature that won't change elitism (elitists will go back to say "your SAM has less aggro than my MNK, you're just bad"), at worst (and most probable) they will lose most of the PvE playerbase that won't care because they miss QoL, that QoL being a parser.

[SassyAssassin]

Since I can’t understand crap about pcs, had to read what else such a program would impact, so yeah definitely against.

[Tetsujin]

No thanks. Cheating is already more than obvious enough, especially since people can't help but snitch on themselves on twitch of all things. As for non-cheating mods? A "mind your own business" attitude should be the standard.

[SillyCrow]

Scrap ultimates then and reallocate the ressources to make other fights more epic. Better that than having something intrusive like Punkbuster or Easy Anti Cheat.

People give too much worth to ultimate fights anyway for the little amount of people actually trying out that content, let alone those that actually manage to finish them.

[TomsYoungerBro]

Scrap ultimates then and reallocate the ressources to make other fights more epic. Better that than having something intrusive like Punkbuster or Easy Anti Cheat.

People give too much worth to ultimate fights anyway for the little amount of people actually trying out that content, let alone those that actually manage to finish them.

Ultimates garner a lot of publicity for Square. Yoshi P even said (paraphrasing) that the content isnt for everyone but please be sure to tune in to streamers in the last live letter.

[CaedemSanguis]

Scrap ultimates then and reallocate the ressources to make other fights more epic. Better that than having something intrusive like Punkbuster or Easy Anti Cheat.

People give too much worth to ultimate fights anyway for the little amount of people actually trying out that content, let alone those that actually manage to finish them.

scrap housing and pvp first, before scrapping ultimates

[PetThisMiqo]

Not at all. Square Enix has done a marvelous job of taking care of our game so far. Everything we have so far is thanks to them. Unfortunately some people choose to misbehave and it's time for Square Enix to correct that poor behavior. This will not affect the majority of players though. Only the small angry groups of elitists would truly face any consequences.