| Originally Posted by Nakti |
| Personally, I don't even use a Windower just because I like things simple and clean. There are things I'd like SE to add (like allow <calls> in /echo), but I just send them suggestions rather than adding a 3rd-party program. |
I feel the same way. I would
love to be able to window or minimize FFXI, but I won't break the ToS to do so. I realize that folks tend to aggro to that kind of sentiment, but that's just the way it is. Every time I log on I agree to a set of rules, and when I give my word it means something to me not to break it.
Now, while I do consider it a violation of the ToS, I choose to overlook it when it comes to friends and such. I value their friendship, and that's more important to me than a matter of moral clarity. I realize that not everyone puts the same value on these things than I do (and certain people put a lot more! ^^), so I just ignore it.
The problem with windower, though, is that it is fed by a very progressive mentality. It started with people being frustrated that SE gave them no way to window, so they made a way. Then you couldn't see party TP and alliance MP, so they made a way. Then you couldn't tell distance from target, so they made a way. Then they didn't like the macro length restrictions, so they made a new macroing system. Creeping, it goes further and further towards the gray areas. Already windower macros have been used to bot summoning/enhancing/healing skill ups.
That's what comes of accepting gray areas. On the whole, I think cheating of all kinds (botting/speedhacking/the wait time hack/the PM2-5 exploit) has become slowly less and less of an unacceptable behavior. Unless something happens to shift the mindset of the entire playing population in a better direction, I really fear that it will just get worse and worse until eventually it kills the game completely.