Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
It makes perfect sense, mods are against the ToS, none of them should be subjected to "special treatment" just because the people who hated Mare love a different mod instead.

If these people are adamant that the ToS MUST be upheld, while citing things like "it breeds toxicity" or "it makes the community look bad" then Mare should have been a double-homocide with ACT filling the other grave ... and yet oh boy look at all the people trying to make excuses for why THEY should be able to break the ToS and behave inappropriately while they do it. Because let's be real, the people mocking Mare users sound exactly like the kind of people that would mock people for low numbers too, it's the same kind of "high horse holier than thou" attitude.
I understand your concern, but you're comparing stealing a loaf of bread to committing a violent crime. Both are technically against the law, but they aren't treated the same way, and it's the same with the terms of service. Square Enix isn't going to handle every violation with the same level of action.

Think of it like how RMT results in a permanent ban on the first offense, while using bad language in chat usually gets a warning instead. Both break the rules, but the severity and impact are completely different.

Players who harass or mock others over numbers (or just poor performance in general) already get banned when reported. Yoshi P has openly said multiple times that parsing is not tolerated, and players caught using these plugins do indeed get banned. That's not in dispute. But to claim that se's legal team will pursue the devs of parsing tools in the same way they went after Mare completely ignores context.

Mare was targeted because it stole assets from other games, monetized se's assets, and exposed minors to potentially explicit content. That's a legal and reputational liability for se in a way that a combat log reader simply isn't.

So while your frustration is understandable, the argument here feels more driven by emotions than logic. Parsing tools and Mare aren't remotely the same situation, and treating them as such misses why se acted the way that they did.