Re: Regarding the Use of Third-Party Programs and Player Safety

[ZXN]

I am genuinely curious if there are actually a ton of players that are really surprised by how Yoshi-P and the devs/Square Enix are "handling" this situation because it really shouldn't be that surprising given their track record when it comes to anything 3rd party related.

Yes, this time around they flat out said they were discussing the request to remove/delete the tool and/or pursue legal action, which sounds good on paper, until you realize this is a whole pile of nothing for the time being.

Big Cheez said it earlier-

...It isn't displaying "a segment of an FFXIV character's internal account ID", they send the whole ass account id to the client, raw and unencrypted and it isn't "used in an attempt to further correlate information on other characters on the same FFXIV service account", they just use the whole account id that they're being given to look up other characters with the same account id.

This is the devs refusing to acknowledge that this is even their own fault.

Obviously nobody should be expecting a thesis about this situation from the Producer/Devs, or have them go "Yeah we fucked up badly with how we implemented the new blacklist system and how it does it's thing, our bad" on a forum post, but it does seem like currently, with what they have told us, that they have kinda settled upon the mindset of "This entire issue is entirely because of 3rd party programs" without even understanding why this is an issue to begin with. This ultimately is a result of how their blacklist system currently works, and if they are going to get this 3rd party plugin deleted/removed, but not fix the core issue with the blacklist system that allowed this plugin to do this stuff in the first place, then this is just a complete waste of everyone's time. Like great, they get the plugin removed but keep how the blacklist currently works exactly the same. Enjoy someone else making the exact same plugin, again, that will do all the exact same stuff this current one is doing, again, and we repeat this cycle.

Right now, to me, this "Regarding the Use of Third-Party Programs and Player Safety" is fucking worthless, and is just a bunch of standard, generic PR fluff that is just to appease players because they HAD to say something at this point given the traction is has gained both here and on the JP forums.

No amount of 3rd party plugin bans are going to fix your system's shit Yoshi-P, only you can your team can do that, so do it.