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

[Midareyukki]

Also, I'd like to know how cosmetic mods are cheating?
Also, I'd like to know how colorblind accessibility mods are cheating?
Also, I'd like to know how the mod that fixes ping for a TON of people (I think it's called Alexander?) is cheating?

I'd just like to add onto this and give examples.

I know there are mods that change the waymark's font. And I'm on record for saying that I struggle to figure out the weirdly-stylized font sometimes, and the 4 sometimes looks like a weird C or a G. A more standardized font would help with faster recognition. Would this make people suddenly get 90% on parses?
I know there are mods that add hairstyles and hats to Viera and Hrothgar. To the point where they're presented as examples for hairstyles people want to be officially implemented on those races. If someone uses a hair mod, does it automatically make them get purple parses?
And I know that there are people on my server playing from South Africa. Nevermind EU players playing on NA or the need to open OCE servers. South Africa is give-or-take 11870 KM (7377 miles) from the European continent. Does that ping tool instantly give them a purple parse for fixing the ping they'd get for being in over 7K miles away from the datacenter?

And if the answer is "B-But Playstation people can't use mods", well, a) Blame Sony because SE actually wanted to go for it, and b) It's not PC players' fault for others' choice of console.

[Ransu]

What I can say is that everyone above 90% parse is cheating, and probably even everyone above 80%.

Good luck competing with people who cheat when you don't. Parses are based on the community's performance, it's not some hypothetical. It is based on the state of reality. The reality is that cheating is widespread in this game, so much that people feel entitled to defend breaking ToS on the official forums openly.

I know several 80 and 90% parsers that play on console, so your statement is kind of nonsense. God forbid some people are just actually good at the game and pay attention to mechanics and what their tooltips say for their rotations.

[Rhael]

What I can say is that everyone above 90% parse is cheating, and probably even everyone above 80%.

Good luck competing with people who cheat when you don't. Parses are based on the community's performance, it's not some hypothetical. It is based on the state of reality. The reality is that cheating is widespread in this game, so much that people feel entitled to defend breaking ToS on the official forums openly.

Parses are based on the community's performance, it's not some hypothetical. It is based on the state of reality. The reality is that poor performance is widespread in this game, so much that people feel entitled to defend their own poor performance on the official forums openly.

[HikariKurosawa]

Parses are based on the community's performance, it's not some hypothetical. It is based on the state of reality. The reality is that poor performance is widespread in this game, so much that people feel entitled to defend their own poor performance on the official forums openly.

Yes, so when the majority of the community uses addons that increase their parse, this distorts the bigger picture. Inflates the heads of many small gamers, while also making the achievements of real gamers less impressive.

What do you want? A cookie for cheating?

[Rhael]

Yes, so when the majority of the community uses addons that increase their parse, this distorts the bigger picture. Inflates the heads of many small gamers, while also making the achievements of real gamers less impressive.

What do you want? A cookie for cheating?

I don't use addons. I don't need them to push my buttons in the right order.

[Kazhar]

No clue what you're talking about. Anyone can be better than someone who is playing this game for story.

Stop talking to yourself too, the only people who suck so much at this game are the ones using addons to cope with how bad they are. Every single thing you do is invalidated because you are a cheater.

I'd say true losers are those who blame their own failings on an increasing numbers of excuses instead of trying to get better.
You're not bad, it's the fault of those dirty cheaters who uses dps meters and chat bubbles!
By the way, while your gimmick is certainly cute, there's probably a more interesting story beneath all that. You said you cleared P1S and P2S at some point, and that you consider savage content the true RPG experience. But they were released more than 6 months ago, what made you stop?

EDIT: Oh, you edited your previous post right as I asked. Nevermind then. More self-righteousness, who would have thought.

[solimiano]

Buying a clear it's not against TOS, you can recruit other adventurers to help you clear xyz content and pay them in Gil or other services, you can even advertise that you need another 7 adventurers and pay them 1 million gil ot whatever to clear xyz content.
Any mod is against TOS and you should be banned for using it

[Vahlnir]

It's not something I would take on and it's not my concern. If I were on the square enix team, I would actively try to address the issue and crack down on cheating pretty hard. I'm not, so it's not my problem. I can only voice how the impact of addons makes this game feel extremely illegitimate, and how parses are no longer a valid metric of anything meaningful anymore with the prevalence of cheaters. Every legitimate player gets a significant tax to their parse when the majority of the "elite" playerbase is abusing addons to inflate their parses. It has a really foul impact on the greater picture of performance metrics. If you respect or take parses seriously, you might as well be complicit with cheaters.

@Iyrnthota everyone knows dot uptime should be 100%, and that the gcd should be constantly rolling. If you need an external source to tell you this, you have deeper concerns.

At the end of the day, this entire discussion and situation isn't as black and white as you want it to be, no matter how much you want it to be so. I've seen some harsh opposition to add-ons and mods through the years, but you are incredibly hostile. More than most I've seen. Perhaps you should take a step back for a moment and collect yourself.

[HikariKurosawa]

At the end of the day, this entire discussion and situation isn't as black and white as you want it to be, no matter how much you want it to be so. I've seen some harsh opposition to add-ons and mods through the years, but you are incredibly hostile. Perhaps you should take a step back for a moment and collect yourself.

I don't really agree and I think that your position on addons is influencing your emotional response a bit more than you might like.

[Vahlnir]

I don't really agree and I think that your position on addons is influencing your emotional response a bit more than you might like.

You wouldn't agree because you can't see it. I have no horse in this race other than perhaps advocating for SE to add certain features to better the game. I'm not the one with a problem here, trust me.