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

[Simple_Barghest]

Did someone put their hand up your butt and make the puppet talk also didn't realize only 1 person IN THE WORLD used steam

It's funny you talk about hands up people's asses, considering you're basically demanding people readily submit to cavity checks.
After all. "If you're truly innocent, you have nothing to hide, so stop hiding and stop resisting."

[Mcg55ss]

It's funny you talk about hands up people's asses, considering you're basically demanding people readily submit to cavity checks.
After all. "If you're truly innocent, you have nothing to hide, so stop hiding and stop resisting."

You're dumb enough to think an anticheat is the level of intrusive as a cavity search. Lol lmao holy crapt that might be the dumbest thing on the internet today

[Simple_Barghest]

You're dumb enough to think an anticheat is the level of intrusive as a cavity search. Lol lmao holy crapt that might be the dumbest thing on the internet today

And clearly you've never had your personal information stolen or a motherboard fried because of shitly-integrated anti-cheat software, so we should all just bow down to your all-encompassing experience.
Sidenote: Looking at Square Enix's track record the past, I dunno, two decades? 14 works despite its company, not because of it.

Edit: And you know what, sure. I'll concede my point was over-dramatic. But frankly this shite authoritarian rhetoric constantly goes over the same talking points every single time. It's never just one instance, it's always "SUBMIT TO AUTHORITY OR BE GUILTY CRIMINAL."

[SieyaM]

Isn't that the main function to stop piracy not an anticheat mostly

Denuvo, by it's own description, is an anti-cheat anti-tamper program

[Denji]

The innocent have nothing to fear. I support it.

ayo look up the genshin impact rootkit

[Troxbark]

Yeah, let's also have SE implement a system to monitor our Discord calls, text messages and browser history to prevent possible bad behavior, defeat evil, and save Narnia.

What a braindead take, lmao.

[Troxbark]

I'm fine with anti-cheat if they implemented it.

The people bawking about it don't realize they've already played games with anti-cheats (hint: it's a lot) or they're actually cheating.

[Troxbark]

Possibly the best things for MMOs going forward would be for FF14 to come down hard and ban them. The game would collapse and all future MMOs made would look at it and see that mod support is the future of gaming.

Or it would help SE be able to pick and choose which mods they allow, giving them ability to crack down on larger concerns and white listing others. (wow has anti-cheat. Shocker, I know)

"no add-ons allowed" is a result of not having a system to be able to enforce anything other than all or nothing.

I don't think add-ons are a big enough issue that it requires such enforcement but also don't see an issue if they choose to implement it either.

[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.

[Kaurhz]

Nope, and a thousand times nope.

I don't necessarily have an issue as such, but it's more about what this option represents. It's effectively the nuclear option of everything they can take, and one that ultimately would put a stopper to a lot of QoL feature updates (A few QoL features have been derivatives of things that I would say people have possibly used third-party for), and similarly this basically puts a knife in the jugular for accessibility - I personally find accessibility as a genuine concern (Not how friendly the content is to enter, but more from a visual design perspective)