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

[Aneshda]

Everyone has something to hide.
If a program can scan your computer for FFXIV mods, it can also find all sorts of other files on your computer in the process.
Embarassing love letters?
Nude pictures of you and your SO?
Credit card numbers?
And so on.
Are you sure you want them to be able to see all that? Because if they can find your mods, they can find anything else on your computer as well.

Well as I wrote, I have nothing to hide, every little Info about me, my Bank Accounts and what not, is not on my Computer.

[LittleImp]

I wouldn't mind at all.

It would piss off a lot of extremely annoying people, so it'd be a win-win.

[Rolder50]

It'd be a waste of developer time for something people would just find a way to bypass anyway.

[DragonFlyy]

No it can't, anticheat only focuses on
-what you're currently running in the task manager
-what's touching the game's install folder
-what's touching the game's memory
-encrypting and preventing decryption/snooping on network packets the game uses
Anticheat doesn't go in and snoop around your computer. People have some strange ideas about what anticheat is

And Anticheat is 100% defeat-able.

[Absimiliard]

And Anticheat is 100% defeat-able.

It can also be a lot more invasive than the person you replied to is letting on. There have been numerous instances of people getting banned off of games/platforms just for having memory editing tools on their PC, for example. False positives are a very real thing, and they can be an indicator of an anti-cheat scanning far more than what it's claimed to.

But you know what? Screw it. I wasn't in favor of it back when this thread was first made, but I've changed my mind since then. Let's get us some anti-cheat up in here. It should be entertaining. Extra points if it can kill that one tool - it'll make at least a quarter of the game's raiders completely unable to function.

[CaedemSanguis]

Im playing on console, but still im against it, ACT and FFLOGS are a good way to know how experienced someone is, and it dont bring any toxicity as it's forbidden in game

[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