SE's most difinitive statement yet on parsers

[Appleh4x]

You keep telling yourself that. Keep justifying parsers by saying you know people that use them.

It doesn't matter to me because pre-parsers to current parser usage behavior is obvious.

See, you just proved how much you don't know. Pre-parser behavior? Parsers have been around for FFXIV for 10 months now and you are just now running into people being dumb about them.

If the organization that is hosting the races has a no stopwatch policy, then yes timing the sprints is cheating. In XIV they want everyone to feel like heroes, them giving you access to a tool that will let you point out to those "heroes" you are screwing up, and here is the proof isn't something they are going to do.

What kind of organization hosting a race wouldn't have it timed? This is just a terrible analogy. Every MMO makes you feel like a hero, and almost all of them have built in parsers or app support. The people pointing out you are a bad DPS and saying they are parsing you are just harassing you, and they would be harassing players regardless of third party software.