Parsers make you stupid

[Seoulstar]

Yoshida just needs to step up his game and exclude any third party software usage outside the game. As a PS4 player, I would have loved to have a Parser program to see how much dps I pull on a job specific class. Not only will I actually hit the dummy more often, but I will also learn how to maximize my dps to the full extend. I don't care about other people's dps, so basically I don't need to ''see'' their numbers. So Naoki Yoshida, if you actually CARE about your fans, please do the right thing and give us the option of a Parse program.

That will cause A LOT more harm than good Im afraid.

[Ryel]

That will cause A LOT more harm than good Im afraid.

Sadly nearly every other MMO in existence would disagree with this statement (WoW being one such) as this is one of the few games on the market that doesn't actually allow them to be used.

The only reason it "might" cause an issue at this point would be due to the rather large awakening, and subsequent backlash it might cause amongst the players against such features, but that too would eventually pass.

In the end it would actually help more than anything if the majority of endgame is going to continue to be designed with strict DPS checks in mind, nothing bad can come from educating your playerbase.

[Seoulstar]

Sadly nearly every other MMO in existence would disagree with this statement (WoW being one such) as this is one of the few games on the market that doesn't actually allow them to be used.

The only reason it "might" cause an issue at this point would be due to the rather large awakening, and subsequent backlash it might cause amongst the players against such features, but that too would eventually pass.

In the end it would actually help more than anything if the majority of endgame is going to continue to be designed with strict DPS checks in mind, nothing bad can come from educating your playerbase.

As much as I would love to agree with you. I'm afraid most of the people in this community would just simply use it to abuse other players. Oh wait, that is already happening here.

[Ditto]

As much as I would love to agree with you. I'm afraid most of the people in this community would just simply use it to abuse other players. Oh wait, that is already happening here.

I can put the word 'most' in front of things too as if I have accurate statistics of the entire communities attitudes, based off of a couple people from group content, spread out days apart from one another, being douchebags.

Oh, and something or another about a parser they had been using at the time using it's parser mind control effect and turning you're every day nice person into a douchebag. Cause the FFXIV community without parsers is all sunshine and daisies, ya know?

[Chevrefoil]

Sadly nearly every other MMO in existence would disagree with this statement (WoW being one such) as this is one of the few games on the market that doesn't actually allow them to be used.

The only reason it "might" cause an issue at this point would be due to the rather large awakening, and subsequent backlash it might cause amongst the players against such features, but that too would eventually pass.

In the end it would actually help more than anything if the majority of endgame is going to continue to be designed with strict DPS checks in mind, nothing bad can come from educating your playerbase.

And having playing all of those MMO's with parsers, I feel that damage meters (non-personal ones) do much more harm than good in a community. Considering the climate in FFXIV, having an easily available damage meter woudl make it even worse.