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

[Anger]

In light of the recent TOP issue and concerns surrounding the legitimacy of their clear - would you be opposed to anticheat software scanning your system for addons/parsers/plugins?

This would help enforce the total and categorical ban on any third party programs used.

[Eorzean_username]

The second SE starts scanning my PC with weird invasive rootkit stuff is the second I get over any remaining FFXIV habit that I have left.

[Saranade]

The second SE starts scanning my PC with weird invasive rootkit stuff is the second I get over any remaining FFXIV habit that I have left.

Yet you are comfortable installing "free" software add ons, as if there is no worry about viruses or rootkits there. Ah the third party crowd, this game may as well be dead now.

[JOsha]

Yet you are comfortable installing "free" software add ons, as if there is no worry about viruses or rootkits there. Ah the third party crowd, this game may as well be dead now.

Almost all plugins are open source, their code is readily available on github. You can go read it for yourself, If they shipped with a virus then everyone would know. If you have 0 idea of what you're talking about, you probably should not.

If anything I'd go so far as to say that they're safer to run than the game itself, since the game is not open-source, you have no idea what SE could be running in the background.

[Oldschoolegamer38]

The second SE starts scanning my PC with weird invasive rootkit stuff is the second I get over any remaining FFXIV habit that I have left.

whats the matter, afraid of getting busted? I for one will do that if SE made it mandatory!!! separates garbage from the real skill players

[Oldschoolegamer38]

Make it easy.. throw in an anticheat and don't even announce it and see who gets busted, if they are clean no problem, if not buh bye...just end these silly childish word games they play on the forums to justify there actions...I personally don't care about privacy or your performance if it means everyone is on the same level...at this point because it goes to show you cannot be trusted, so why should everyone else suffer because of a small % of players who cheat and admit it on here with BS psyop word games be given any leeway they also bank on you screaming then 5 mins. later to walk away as if nothing happened and it's back to business as usual for them while everyone else has more rules to adhere to...

[JOsha]

I personally don't care about privacy or your performance if it means everyone is on the same level

Absolute Clown Statement, I'm Sorry.

[aveyond-dreams]

I would sooner see them implement the sorely needed QoL features that the game still lacks to this day.

[BaconBits]

I would rather shove a rusted nail through my hand than have to deal with some janky anti cheat system.

[SaitoHikari]

I'm pretty sure Yoshi-P has enough experience playing MMOs to realize that adding any kind of scanning will only achieve 2 things.

1) It'll be a major annoyance to the entire playerbase, possibly resulting in performance drops

2) It'll push the entire third party scene underground, and start an arms race with them.

SE isn't going to do it, when there isn't really any benefit to having it, beyond just simply saying that they have it. They would sooner axe future development of Ultimate raids than to waste resources on this stuff.