Yoshi-P basically said he does not want parsers because there is this group that would abuse it.

On the other hand, when the question about stats was asked, the reply we got was that they will leave that to the community to figure it out since it belongs in an MMO. How are we supposed to test stuff w/o a parser? Does he really think the info we have now come from people checking and calculating the battle log? Does he really think we "estimated" that DRG dps was too far behind compared to MNK (and NIN when it came out). Do you really think they never see how at this point 9 out of 10 streams also stream a parser? I think they hid behind the "abuse" argument long enough now.

A parser would make people far more aware of the imbalance we face at the moment (melee destryoing casters in general) and of course make people more aware of their own DPS which could lead to more cry threads. I think this is the bigger reason they don't want it.