add an in game parser please!!!

[Andrea]

"Please add in another way to make people elitist."


Yeah we don't need that... a damage meter of any kind promotes bad behavior.

A chat box promotes bad behaviour, we need to remove this from the game ASAP. Without the chat box there will be no way people can be meanies.

[Kuwagami]

A chat box promotes bad behaviour, we need to remove this from the game ASAP. Without the chat box there will be no way people can be meanies.

The internet promotes bad behaviour. For the sake of the children, we should shut it down for good.

[Andrea]

The internet promotes bad behaviour. For the sake of the children, we should shut it down for good.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!! FFXIV should just change into a single player game tbh

[RickXRolled]

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!! FFXIV should just change into a single player game tbh

But then people would still whine and complain that they paid for the game and the post game challenge fights are to hard and need to be nerfed.

[RocheKat]

A chat box promotes bad behaviour, we need to remove this from the game ASAP. Without the chat box there will be no way people can be meanies.

A chat box is required for the game to function at a basic level. A parser is not.

Sorry but I have played WoW so I know exactly where dps addons go. It is not needed, it will only make the community worse... why waste resources? If you are skilled at any level where a parser may help you should be able to figure out if you are doing good damage or not. If you are not skilled then a parer isn't going to help because you haven't even figured out the basic rotation.

[Colorful]

A chat box is required for the game to function at a basic level. A parser is not.

Sorry but I have played WoW so I know exactly where dps addons go. It is not needed, it will only make the community worse... why waste resources? If you are skilled at any level where a parser may help you should be able to figure out if you are doing good damage or not. If you are not skilled then a parer isn't going to help because you haven't even figured out the basic rotation.

Waste resources? They already have a parser in their development builds as shown in a screenshot not too long, the only thing that would need to implemented is an actual UI for it, but that shouldn't be a problem as I'd imagine their UI team isn't exactly constantly active. Also, you can play the entire game from the beginning to end without using chat, excluding those quests that have you type things. Remind me, how is that required for the game to function?

[RocheKat]

Waste resources? They already have a parser in their development builds as shown in a screenshot not too long, the only thing that would need to implemented is an actual UI for it, but that shouldn't be a problem as I'd imagine their UI team isn't exactly constantly active. Also, you can play the entire game from the beginning to end without using chat, excluding those quests that have you type things. Remind me, how is that required for the game to function?

So you learned all the fights in the game without any communication from anyone? That is rather impressive...

Oh and parers use resources... a lot of resources.

[Colorful]

So you learned all the fights in the game without any communication from anyone? That is rather impressive...

Oh and parers use resources... a lot of resources.

99% of the game's content doesn't require proper doing of mechanics other than "Move out of this big orange AoE", all challenging content I've done is learnt through written/video guides. You know why we fail a lot of that content? That's right, a lot of it has to do with poor DPS. If you mean resources CPU wise, then PS3 can either be singled out or it can implemented with 4.0 when the PS3 is likely to be dropped.

[Priya]

Oh and parers use resources... a lot of resources.

Do you mean resources like machine resources (CPU, memory, internet etc) or developer? If you mean the former, I'm no authority, so perhaps someone more knowledgeable than I can say how much they tend to take; I was always under the impression it wasn't too hard on a machine. If you mean the latter, perhaps SE can go the same route as Blizzard and let the community develop addons/parsers similar to what ACT already is. I think that uses less developer resources as all they need to do is make sure things don't go too far (e.g when Blizzard broke AVR because it was too invasive and trivalized heroic Rotface's slime mechanics).



Edit: Whoops. I meant AVR.

[Yahallo]

Oh and parers use resources... a lot of resources.

I used a parser in WoW. I saw no real increase in resource usage at all.

If that isn't good enough for you, I asked a friend who uses a parser. He said it at most takes 80 mb of ram (the game's minimum requirements asks for 2 GB of ram btw) and rarely even registered on CPU usage and when it did it was at most a measly 1% (this was gathered via the task manager). Parsers are incredibly light weight. A lot of the data that would be collected by a parser is already collected by your battle log tab in the chatbox; a parser would just use that information and calculate some things and print out the numbers that it came up with and a computer that can run FFXIV can easily do basic computation.

Do you mean resources like machine resources (CPU, memory, internet etc) or developer? If you mean the former, I'm no authority, so perhaps someone more knowledgeable than I can say how much they tend to take; I was always under the impression it wasn't too hard on a machine. If you mean the latter, perhaps SE can go the same route as Blizzard and let the community develop addons/parsers similar to what ACT already is. I think that uses less developer resources as all they need to do is make sure things don't go too far (e.g when Blizzard broke AVR because it was too invasive and trivalized heroic Rotface's slime mechanics).



Edit: Whoops. I meant AVR.

I wouldn't even think it would take a lot of developer resources. I am pretty sure they already have their own parsers for testing purposes. All they would have to really do is give it a nice UI and look, something they already have a lot of resources for like font size and type for example. And even if they don't, addon support. Didn't they say they would eventually put in addon support?