Story Dungeons / Testing Solo DPS Mechanic

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Some of you people are seriously obsessed with this whole DPS thing. I'm not even being facetious or hyperbolic. You're obsessed.

Every time I come to these forums, there's threads, and post upon post of people going on about needing a parser. I've seen threads that have nothing to do with any of that, somehow get dragged into "why XIV needs a parser".

You're obsessed.

"Numbers!!!! Numbers!!! It's all about the numbers!!! I must know the numbers!!! Give me the numbers!!! All that matters are the numbers!!! I don't care that we're downing the enemies and clearing the content! That's not what matters! What's matters is the numbers!!! Numbers, SE! We need the numbers!!"

Are welogging into a game, or a Graphical Online Math Simulator?

With how outright obsessed - and calling it obsessed is not an exaggeration at this point - some people are with needing to know the numbers(!) around here, does anyone really believe that these people want them provided for purely benevolent reasons, and that it won't be abused, or used as a divisive way to separate the community?

And don't say "no no, we won't abuse it like that!", when people are freely suggesting wanting it as "a way to know who the bad players are". People are already showing their intentions, and don't even know it. It's like a kid standing with one hand in a cookie jar, insisting he's not trying to take a cookie.

People are insisting the abuse won't happen. Thing is... it already is happening. People already find ways to divide the community and play the "us vs them" game in this community. People are already using the unofficial parser to bash other players and tell them how bad they are, and/or kick them from groups. That cat is already out of the bag, and saying it "won't happen" is moot. It already does happen. No need for SE to support and endorse the behavior by giving them an official one.

Besides, those who really "must know the numbers!!!" ("for their own benefit"... of course), already have a way to find out. Yes, I know, it's not permitted, so you can't openly tell someone how bad your parser numbers say they are without risk to your account. There's demonstrably good reason for that.