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

[Ryvaku]

The only time Square Enix should add such a program to scan for plugins it when the devs for said various plugins go more invasive like the Gshade dev team did.

[Larirawiel]

I'm sure you dont mean to concern troll but that really is the risk of the people installing mods and not anyone else's. It is also kind of an ironic thing to say in a thread about introducing an anti cheat software which needs even more permissions on your system, just look at valorant's anti cheat. If giving vast permissions to a program is a concern to you then you have to be against anti cheat software. The permissions given to anti cheat software in general has in the past already been exploited in the case of genshin impact's anticheat.

It is true. I am also against anticheat software. Because it installs a Ring 0 driver/kernel module. A Ring 0 driver has way more permissions than the Administrator account. And anticheat software was already hacked:

https://www.techspot.com/news/95781-...ansomware.html


A bad programmed Ring 0 kernel module can also easily cause BSODs, it can badly interfere with antivirus software etc.


Cheers

[Padudu]

The only time Square Enix should add such a program to scan for plugins it when the devs for said various plugins go more invasive like the Gshade dev team did.

Yeaaaah, no lol. Also, GShade isn't a plugin.

[Zebraoracle]

Unfortunately Hikari is not so wrong about stealing credit card information or hacking your computer. There are some reasons why ACT has to be started with elevated rights. And if an application has Administrator rights then it can do literery everything.


Cheers

The problem is he actually has zero idea how ACT works and is just throwing out wild accusations and unhinged statements.

[solimiano]

What you are doing here, essentially, is arbitrarily accusing every world first, and indeed every raider to have ever completed Ultimates, of "cheating" without having any way to prove it. Stripping away those weapons without proof is a surefire way to kill what few Ultimate teams there are out there. Besides, even if they are utilizing third-party tools, exactly how does this make their achievements unfair if darned near everyone else in the raiding community is also using or benefitting from them?

What you are failing to consider is that players rely on tools like ACT telling them their numbers so they can determine the correct way to play and gear their jobs. At present, endgame content is tuned in such a way that not having access to this information would in fact make it virtually, if not impossible to complete. Even players that do not themselves run ACT are almost always grouped with people that do, and thus they are able to see their numbers when they get uploaded to FFlogs. The theorycrafters that provide us with so much information about rotations and stat weights are also highly reliant on tools like ACT.

Additionally, I would note that all player data gathered by ACT is already available via combat log if you want to spend twelve years sorting it out and doing absurd amounts of math.

Noone needs ACT, if noone can clear a fight without it, awesome, square enix will keep adjusting the fight until it is at the right level and can be cleared by X amount of people.
Now if everything and everyone can clear a fight that means square will keep increasing the difficulty, in turn increasing the cheating...
They just create a fight that's impossible to be cleared normally, so they could easily ban everyone that clears it.
That is an amazing anti cheat.

[Midareyukki]

Noone needs ACT, if noone can clear a fight without it

That's not what the assumption is. No one says you need ACT to clear a fight.

I know you guys fish for attention like crazy, but holy hell there isn't even any bait on the hook at this point.

[Kazhar]

Noone needs ACT, if noone can clear a fight without it, awesome, square enix will keep adjusting the fight until it is at the right level and can be cleared by X amount of people.
Now if everything and everyone can clear a fight that means square will keep increasing the difficulty, in turn increasing the cheating...
They just create a fight that's impossible to be cleared normally, so they could easily ban everyone that clears it.
That is an amazing anti cheat.

You assume ACT has any impact on the difficulty of content.
Why?
Do you even know what it does?
Maybe you anti-mod fanatics would start getting some credibility if all your attention wasn't focused on the most inoffensive of the bunch. (and crying about accessibility plugins of all things) The one even Square Enix thinks isn't that much of a problem as long as it's not used as a tool for harassment.
There are zoom hacks, splatoon, cactbot, and actual botting which plagues the raid community, cheats that actually trivializes content but you can't stop talking about ACT of all things. What a sad joke.

[solimiano]

You assume ACT has any impact on the difficulty of content.
Why?
Do you even know what it does?
Maybe you anti-mod fanatics would start getting some credibility if all your attention wasn't focused on the most inoffensive of the bunch. (and crying about accessibility plugins of all things) The one even Square Enix thinks isn't that much of a problem as long as it's not used as a tool for harassment.
There are zoom hacks, splatoon, cactbot, and actual botting which plagues the raid community, cheats that actually trivializes content but you can't stop talking about ACT of all things. What a sad joke.

You are the ones trying to justify one addons, on my side there are no addons, you only use official software from square.
I wasn't the one that said "At present, endgame content is tuned in such a way that not having access to this information would in fact make it virtually, if not impossible to complete."
If you can't complete it its all for the best. That means eventually square will make the difficulty accessible to those that don't cheat and use add-ons.

[Midareyukki]

You are the ones trying to justify one addons, on my side there are no addons, you only use official software from square.
I wasn't the one that said "At present, endgame content is tuned in such a way that not having access to this information would in fact make it virtually, if not impossible to complete."
If you can't complete it its all for the best. That means eventually square will make the difficulty accessible to those that don't cheat and use add-ons.

People: "Without this information being available, clearing raids will be harder."
You: "Aha! So you can't clear without ACT!"
People: "...I mean, I can just plot the Battle Chat log onto an Excel Spreadsheet. Would take more time, but essentially it's the same"
You: "B-But you said no ACT right?"
People: "Oy, world's greatest parent, do you honestly see ACT anywhere in our sentences? We're talking about the information, regardless of what organizes it."
You: "So ACT!"
People: "Bleeding hell..."

...

Honestly, I'd teach my son how to read and have comprehension skills before trying to instill blind morals. Because this? It ain't it, sister.

[solimiano]

People: "Without this information being available, clearing raids will be harder."
You: "Aha! So you can't clear without ACT!"
People: "...I mean, I can just plot the Battle Chat log onto an Excel Spreadsheet. Would take more time, but essentially it's the same"
You: "B-But you said no ACT right?"
People: "Oy, world's greatest parent, do you honestly see ACT anywhere in our sentences? We're talking about the information, regardless of what organizes it."
You: "So ACT!"
People: "Bleeding hell..."

...

Honestly, I'd teach my son how to read and have comprehension skills before trying to instill blind morals. Because this? It ain't it, sister.

If you are putting 3 months of your personal time on an Excel spreadsheet to try and go over the logs of one battle I'll commend your effort, as soon as you use and add-on, I'll report your cheating.