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

[sharknado]

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.

Many games scan for processes or for changes in their data files on launch. It doesn't really affect performance nor move apps "underground". Blizzard has a long-lasting experience with this - they banned assets change because aside from looks it could be used for cheating. They also look for running cheating/decompiling apps while the game is running. The downside is that some games go overboard and scan your system while having escalated permissions which allows them to do way more than described.

And hardcore competitive games often do not support non-default display aspect ratios.

[Ranaku]

It's kinda silly to me that this question comes up every couple months or so, someday people learn that stuff like anti cheat software is illegal in japan. Same as modding btw.

Until then we will probably have people ask for this over and over again, completely oblivious to the fact that SE can't do that out of multiple reasons, be it millions lost in stock and well subs cause it would destroy every community that freely advertises this game or well lawsuits cause anti cheat software (crazy i know not the whole world is just bound to US law lol) is maybe not that legal, especially in japan where...well...the game comes from.

But i have to say it is funny to see this discussion every time this happens.

[Payadopa]

Innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around, yes.

[caffe_macchiato]

anti cheat software is illegal in japan.

The FFXIV forums are the only place on the internet where this claim is brought up. Can you please provide a citation?

Also, it’s legal in Japan for a game to read its own files, per the post right above yours. Yoshida designed FFXIV around WoW. How is that possible if WoW is illegal in Japan?

[keichirou]

Honestly i have nothing to hide so i wouldnt care if they did, let them scan away.

you have absolutely no idea how anti-cheat software works

As long as it doesnt interfere with my quality of gaming like causing lag or whatever.

believe me....
this will be the least of your concerns...

[Nanne]

people learn that stuff like anti cheat software is illegal in japan.

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Li...eat_technology
Quite many Japanese developers there (Its a list of games that use somekind of anti-cheat programs)

[Pratini]

I wouldn't mind to be honest.

[Arrius]

I really hate this "if you're innocent you should be fine with it" mindset. How about no, the majority of us aren't doing anything wrong so don't punish us because of a select few?

"Rather let a thousand innocent die than letting a single guilty one escape.", and all. Infamous quote from the Warhammer universe.

I can see that people like to have certain mods as a QoL update.
But if you give them a inch, others will take a mile and start making mods that begin to be straight up cheating, like seeing otherwise invisible AoE markers and such.

Would it be unfair for the QoL mod users to also be put under the hammer as the obviously cheating ones? Maybe.
Yet in my opinion they need to be all reeled back in and firmly reminded of the rules regarding mods and add-ons, and they should expect no mercy or leniency if they do get caught.

You saw it already regarding toxic chats and people who wouldn't stop being horny in their adventure plates. And SE will continue to grasp around the banhammer harder from now on.

[Bongaboi]

SE is not HoYoVerse. This is different.

[Pratini]

WoW has an anti cheat on its client and I have never heard of it causing any issues.

If blizzard can do it, pretty sure SE can do it as well.