Quote Originally Posted by Reih View Post
The moment a community starts gathering data to gauge players based on sent data from 3rd party app to differentiate between good and bad performance of a player and use this to form groups is where things get messed up. Sadly these activities are mostly used by raiders. I won't post any link to that kind of stuff. Raiders are discriminating other players by these means and so dehumanizing the game in favor of raw numbers. I do not think raiders and non-raiders can cooperate in this game due to such behavior. Even on trivial stuff like the latest dungeon or the current primal, there's someone that can't deal with that. When I play the game someone rages because one person can't keep up or is new to an event. There has to be a change in the community to "humanize" raiders and it has to come from the raiders. Either acknowledge that there's another kind of player base that can't keep up because it's on the nature of how people approach the game or avoid those players completely.
Way to paint in such broad strokes. Exactly where are raiders using parsers to openly discriminate against casual players? I am pretty sure parsers are never used to call players out at all since it's reportable.

I don't think any player should be forced to play with anyone. If you don't want to research your class and understand your rotation, go play with like minded people. Skilled players congregate in FCs and LS to play with like minded people. If that bothers you, then I don't know what yo tell you. People, in general, like to form cliques. It happens in real life, it certainly happens in-game.

I think you are just trying to use parsers as a boogie man for some other systemic problem. I personally have never talked about using parsers outside of my FC and that goes for a lot of my hardcore friends. I think you have had a few bad experiences and your letting that spoil your opinion of an entire game population that is extremely diverse.