You're a Disgrace

[ICountFrom0]

I think you are looking for

[caffe_macchiato]

If youa've used TOS breaking addons or directly cheated for the Fall Guys event, I hope you get banned. I hope everyone knows it. I hope you are shamed for the rest of your entire life.

They can't get banned, but it doesn't matter. All Square Enix needs to do is mandate that their official launcher is used instead of XIVLauncher. Make sure that no third-party programs can authenticate the login. All of these plugins are only becoming wildly popular because of the launcher, including the Fall Guys one. Cheating would still exist but not be nearly as prevalent, and it would be non-intrusive to normal players. The quality of the game culture would improve overnight.

Of course, Square Enix won't do that either. Why would they? It's Square Enix. Who cares as long as the game prints money?

[Sindele]

They can't get banned, but it doesn't matter. All Square Enix needs to do is mandate that their official launcher is used instead of XIVLauncher. Make sure that no third-party programs can authenticate the login. All of these plugins are only becoming wildly popular because of the launcher, including the Fall Guys one. Cheating would still exist but not be nearly as prevalent, and it would be non-intrusive to normal players. The quality of the game culture would improve overnight.

Of course, Square Enix won't do that either. Why would they? It's Square Enix. Who cares as long as the game prints money?

Or because what you've just proposed is a problem somewhere between nightmarishly difficult and outright impossible while completely failing to solve the problem you think it solves.

SE's failure continues to be its complete refusal to invest in proper moderation for a worldwide audience. This is another facet of a very old problem coming home to roost, just like the server capacity debacles during COVID were. The most cost-effective way to deal with cheating is to produce a culture of unpredictable fear by doing the brute-force work of monitoring the tools space, figuring out where activity is growing, and then bundling up groups of people pushing it too far and knocking them all off in one fell swoop.

It's a well-worn strategy for a reason - fighting at the zero tolerance level is ridiculously expensive, ridiculously intrusive, and largely unnecessary particularly in the MMO space. Do it anything less than perfectly, and, well... remember when there was ransomware vectored through Genshin's kernel anti-cheat? (Which did very little in terms of productively stopping cheating in the first place?)

E: Also, the final stage could be pretty much autorun to victory from day zero. Very, very predictable once you understand the delays. Some of this definitely strikes me as reminiscent of the CC cheating screamfests - one twitter video of someone cheating was all every permabronze player needed to justify every match loss they ever experienced.

[NanaWiloh]

My Fellow FF players I have not be honest with you. I did guguegity Fall gus event, I goshmogited its parkouridiy with my afkguegus and I am sorry..

[Burmecia]

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People be making some mods and sh*t for this sillygoofy event?

[Absurdity]

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People be making some mods and sh*t for this sillygoofy event?

There's a 100 wins title achievement attached to a janky time-limited minigame, of course someone is going to make a 3rd party tool for it.

[Baxcel]

Seems like the King/Queen Bean title will be another mark of shame like PvP mounts or titles.. everyone will just assume you cheated even if you didn't..

[Bonoki]

Seems like the King/Queen Bean title will be another mark of shame like PvP mounts or titles.. everyone will just assume you cheated even if you didn't..

Its mostly a mark of shame in PvP if you have more multiple seasons worth of rewards. Especially with the increasing amount of cheaters it becomes harder to believe that you came out on top multiple times against cheaters without cheating yourself. If you have one reward though, it's easier to believe you sincerely grinded hard and got really lucky.

[Eastwall]

Seems like the King/Queen Bean title will be another mark of shame like PvP mounts or titles.. everyone will just assume you cheated even if you didn't..

Same as people will assume legend titles are from rmt