Third-party Tools Can Negatively Affect Players Not Using Them

[Caseal]

SE should just not generate any data for output, and lock that entirely away... then those third party programs got nothing to read from and the only viable option is if you can beat the dummies set out for it to see if enough damage can be achieved.

It would be welcomed and mostly due to that what we see above and the problem is going to be bigger, when the XBOX crowd comes around.

Fair and square lock it all away, however if FFXIV becomes all Cloud Gaming, then the problem would solve itself, and then we we will have pages of so called "elite" people claiming the game is to hard for them to do.

You don't need the data from those logs and whatever whenever it get to it, other than not trusting one and another, it is a typical western and especially NA thing.

that's the funny thing, act doesn't read data that is outputted normally, it forcefully extracts data from network packets
if sqex were to hide combat logs it would not hinder act in any way

[Themarvin]

that's the funny thing, act doesn't read data that is outputted normally, it forcefully extracts data from network packets
if sqex were to hide combat logs it would not hinder act in any way

It would, if you are not producing any numbers to read from, removal of the battle log and its way to store data on your PC.

[Mosha]

It would, if you are not producing any numbers to read from, removal of the battle log and its way to store data on your PC.

It doesn't read from the battle log it reads the network packets removing the battle log would have zero effect on how ACT gets its data. For example: the battle log doesn't log the player's position but ACT is able to capture that as proved by the replay feature on fflogs.