Would you like an in-game parser?

[Seraphix2407]

Now, think on the casual palyers, This ones can improve, but some of the, just no, doesn' have time or they jsut want run a dungeon and do others things. This casualsprobably will rerepsent the 50% of the total players. Do you think is a good idea harras them in this way? If they see the game turn into a DPS race, they probalby won't continue playing. THat's less moeny for FFXIV. Guess who will pay the consequences and who will lose content...

I simply don't like the word elitist or casual, even that I've used the words few times in my post in this thread, just because people use them so they know who I talk about. I have people who study, works and do gym everyday. I have people who play 3 hours a day and study and do other stuff rest of the day? Does that mean they are casual? Keep in mind these players I talk about have beaten midas savage 1-2-3 hell even some beat m4. Some of them only log on to raid and that's it and raid days? My own group we do it 2-3 hours a day for 2-3 days a week. Because we simply have our own things to do to, but we are on midas 4 savage. Does this mean I'm casual? Because last time I checked beating savage (from what MOST people say) I'm a hardcore player, I'm hardcore for beating hard content. Nope nope. And then you have those who barely does battle content on my server and everyone on my server knows who and they know why they don't do it. RP, using the game as facebook/skype, crafting, vanity etc, you name it. Then you have these players who are logged on MORE than me? So they are hardcore because they log on more than me? As you mentioned they do few dungeons then do other stuff. We all know ''casuals'' represent a high majority of the playerbase, but also we know raiding scene isn't that big in this game either but there are serval reasons for that, because the game isn't built to have the biggest end game sceene either, due to lack of money to make the content and who know's they might keep it this way to focus on ''casuals''.

Anyways my point is, many people including myself don't care who RP, uses the game as a chat program or simply just won't do battle content, which I'm PRETTY sure many doesn't care about either.
I'm only mention those who actually wanna do primals or savage but can't pull their class/job off. There is this person who got into raiding midas savage 2 weeks ago. She works alot, needs to take care of her own mom, wake up super early everyday. Guess what, she beat midas 1 in a few days being only on for max 6 hours a week. 6 HOURS?!?!?!?.

I don't think putting a parser in game is not gonna make it worse for those who doesn't even do battle content or rarely do them as you mentioned. This game is even far from being a heavy battle content game anwyays. It's the same thing, weekly stuff>cap>log out. This game has much more focus on many other things which myself and very, very, very many likes to have in game. Even the top raiders or midicore ones just do weekly kills or some progression of they still on it then log out. Saying it will happen again, parser making the game worse like every other MMO is , to be honest bit silly.
I never played WoW and keep in mind that game is heavy on parsers and the game is still floating it's way. Maybe it's not good as it used to be due to content or how they deal with things? But I know for sure many still play it these days. That's like saying you are to expected bad players because 50% of the players are being bad in other MMO's. Which goes back to why we want a parser, since it will improve players. How can people fear of something when majority here even say they are doing good, but are afraid of it? To me it makes no sense. Hell there are people who post on reddit or here who even say they have to improve but it's hard to know when they are in actual CONTENT DOING A FIGHT, who would love a parser. What about those? You want them to stay on that level? Because I'm pretty sure and aware a huge part of the community would love to improve how they play. Isn't that why most play the game for? Be good at it?
And no money for content? Barely been any battle content, so I wouldn't worry about parser taking over the game, if I were you.

Sorry for the long reply.

Edit. And I just noticed we are on the same sever. Go to limsa and see who sits there 24-7 doing RP or just use the game as a chatbox. No one cares about those people because none of them do battle content. EVERY server has those players and no one care's about their numbers because they don't do any of it or just barely. Saying people would harrash them because of a parser, is something I dislike to see. I know many of them and I don't bother talk to them about battle content or even raids, because they have no interest for them, so please don't say people will turn into assholes to those people because of a parser and you know very well it's true.

edit: Haha, I just noticed you are in the Owl's FC in the same ward as mine

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Love this post, it's pretty good. I have to agree to it. Problem is as you mentioned, you can't say people are doing low before it's a harrasment. You have to sshh shh about it. Having a offical parser it would easier and better for players to discuss about the matter, rather than being quiet about it. I rarely want to call out out, unless I know the person wouldn't get offended by me saying ''hey your dps is low, may I help you'' In fact I've gotten reported for that. So I need to be quiet about it sadly.