It's official Parsers are illegal in FFXIV

[Dervy]

They have to say that due to ToS but even Yoshida understands the use of parsers and said in an interview to not run around telling people you use it.

Thank you. If the producer of the game himself said, just use them at your own risk and don't mention it to others in-game, then why is everyone crying a river about it?

Everyone should've known parsers were against the ToS day 1, don't know why people are still going on about this topic.

They need to keep parsers under 3rd-party tools, as one parser which I will not name, went over the line with a certain "tool" which is no matter however you look at it, a hack. If they didn't put strict rules

Neither do I but because 1 person can do certain amount of damage with a certain class/job. When someone else that uses that same job can't do the same. Certain people tend to just straight up put them down or leave the group.

Which is where the problems lies. It gets taken to these extremes just to rush BiS gear and tome farms.

Because players don't research and learn to play their jobs correctly. Trying not to sound elitist here, but if players don't put the time into learning their job and how to correctly play it, then they're also probably not as commited towards end-game content. It's this reason, why players have such a ridiculously poor tolerance towards others, as well as these insane artificial ilvl requirements.