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

[Raoabolic]

Anybody want another billboard incident?

Yes, that was incredibly funny!

The future looks bleak.

But it's the future we chose. Just sit back and enjoy the descent, though it wouldn't hurt to crack a joke or two on the way down~!

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

Nope if they can't trust me and need to scan my PC every time then goodbye game. I'll go elsewhere. They can't even fix bugs correctly or even make the game way better like UI changes. I still figure out why I still play it

[Midareyukki]

But it's the future we chose. Just sit back and enjoy the descent, though it wouldn't hurt to crack a joke or two on the way down~!

*Cracks that Miqo'te*

[Wyssahtyn]

Anybody want another billboard incident?

i hope that's fake

[ForteNightshade]

The more competitive game the more anti-cheat systems it has. Don't expect online games to "value your privacy" if you are afraid of anti-cheat systems. And there is nothing that affects your privacy if the game checks if its own files and runtime were modified. That's the basics it can do to block plugins and mods.

And the worst thing that can happen is all world first race players would start using addons, everyone would know it, and as nothing would leak SE would do nothing aside from making fights harder and harder because players clear them "easily" thus ending up designing fights that require add-ons to clear. Then any new player wanting to join any non-basic content would be flooded by the list of "unofficial" mods to even play the game. How "fun" would that be?

This is doomsaying as Yoshida has come out and specifically said they have no intention of designing any encounter above that of Dragonsong. While Omega is certainly pushing the very edge of that statement, it's more a matter of opinion which you find harder. Ironically, Omega has seem some degree of criticism already because of how precise mechanics are relative to previous Ultimates and how said precision can be frustrating due to this game's very poor latency. Regardless, we will never see anything require addons in this game nor will Ultimate push beyond what's been released. Very few of the already small Ultimate playerbase would even want something harder than Dragonsong or Omega.

[Absimiliard]

Very few of the already small Ultimate playerbase would even want something harder than Dragonsong or Omega.

The burnout rate on it is pretty high already. Anything above those two - or releasing Ultimates more frequently, for that matter - would run the risk of driving a significant portion of that already miniscule portion of the player-base away from the content entirely.

...But you know, I feel like Dragonsong and Omega Ultimte in some ways might actually not be as ridiculous (relative to player skill at the time, which has definitely increased over the years) as pre-nerf Pepsi Man was back in Heavensward. That thing was the slayer of FCs. SE even apologized for it. One can only imagine what something that monstrously overtuned would look like with today's standards of mechanical complexity.

[HikariKurosawa]

What are you people afraid of square enix finding on your computers? PDF?
In all honesty though, it is really weird how one extremely vocal and toxic minority of the community is holding the entire game hostage by saying they will quit if square enix enforces their ToS that you are legally bound to following.

I think that all the damages caused to rule followers should result in compensation. Like, why is my experience ruined by rule breakers? I am following the rules because they are what they are. Why am I made to cancel my sub because people are bullying square by saying they will quit if cheats are disabled?

They are losing subs either way, they should side with those who want to play the game for what it is, rather than those who complain about what is and change the coding of the game to suit their personal ideals/cheats.

[Renalt]

Anybody want another billboard incident?

All dem mods and managed to make herself super ugly.

That's a talent.

[VerdeLuck]

At this point it seem SE really only cares about addon usage in world first videos and when it makes the news. There was a prominent member of the parsing and raiding comunity in NA who got caught red handed both using and developing cheats for other players and nothing happened. They even admitted to it and a whole lot of nothing happened, they're still allowed to keep their omega weapon and spot in the world first race.
I guess at this point I have to change my mind about 3rd party addons, this situation seems like a full on go ahead to put whatever you want on your game as long as you aren't a world first raider and don't get caught, cheat all you want.

What's the point in me progging Ultimates for dozens of hours for a clear when I can just installl automarker, cactbot, and splatoon and clear in a day and a half? I get the same result, SE won't punish me, they sure don't even punish members of the press circuit who get caught using and benefitting from these, so why should I adhere to playing vanilla without addons? I wouldn't be opposed to having anticheat but without it and in the current situation why would anyone not install everything they can? it's not like there will be any actual consequences.

[HikariKurosawa]

At this point it seem SE really only cares about addon usage in world first videos and when it makes the news. There was a prominent member of the parsing and raiding comunity in NA who got caught red handed both using and developing cheats for other players and nothing happened. They even admitted to it and a whole lot of nothing happened, they're still allowed to keep their omega weapon and spot in the world frist race.
I guess at this point I have to change my mind about 3rd party addons, this situation seems like a full on go ahead to put whatever you want on your game as long as you aren't a world first raider and don't get caught, cheat all you want.

What's the point in me progging Ultimates for dozens of hours for a clear when I can just installl automarker, cactbot, and splatoon and clear in a day and a half? I get the same result, SE won't punish me, they sure don't even punish members of the press circuit who get caught using and benefitting from these, so why should I adhere to playing vanilla without addons?

Best to just quit the game. It is safe to assume that everyone who has an ultimate weapon cheated to get it. There is no more valid prestige left in the game. The other thing is, it's kind of a security risk for people to be able to just mod the game freely without any program scanning their client for malicious code.

Since they don't do it like blizzard does with their official API, there is a ton of sketchy stuff that can happen and does happen. All of these addons might as well be virus carriers because it is all done in the shadows due to being officially against the rules. It's really weird how attached people are to cheating in this game, and then they go on to say that it's a security risk to have square enix using a client based scan system to detect if the game is being tampered with. These people are probably already fully hacked because of the third party sketchy addons they use.