Would you like an in-game parser?

[Ryel]

That would not be a "Compromise" one of two things would happen. The majority of the playerbase would use one option or the other, and the less used option would become useless to do any content. hilariously enough due to the ratio of people who want to "Get Gud" the option that got ignored would most likely be the DPS meter option making it only used in content that is already saturated in players using the third party equivalent that will most likely be superior to anything Square Enix would cobble together.

This is entirely possible, however seeing as the framework already exists in the game i see no harm in actually adding it and allowing the playerbase to have the option available. If what you say is true and it will be underused then so be it, but at least those who wish to make use of it will have the option unlike now, and those who are using 3rd party ones can continue to do so if they wish, it's not like we haven't had development time spent on things that are barely used in this game before (looking at you LoV).

I think it's better to add the option and let the players speak for themselves, don't you?

[Jynx]

I think it's better to add the option and let the players speak for themselves, don't you?

I think it's a gross waste of resources if that's the case!

[Lambdafish]

I think it's a gross waste of resources if that's the case!

For what reason? Because you won't use it? I think the glamour system was a huge waste of resources because I don't really care about my characters appearance, I think that making fenrir fly is a huge waste of resources because I don't have or want one. A parser is an extreamly helpful (if not necessary) tool for end game raiding, and fights are only getting harder and more dependent on high DPS (bismark, Thordan, and the entirety of savage come to mind). The fact that this thread exists, that it is so widely debated, and that in the original OPs poll, pro parsers are winning 3/1, shows that it is definitely not a waste.

[WeekendSoja]

The resource argument is purely for the fact that parsers are currently downloadable for free, no cost to the players or SE.

Whereas, I believe that there is currently no reskinning program that will allow you to glam, change race, and overlay mounts at your whim...others won't see it but you will...and I don't think there is such a program available for people...

Where it is true that opening parsers to the general populace would make people "transparent" and allow for more accountability, but the chances of people leaving the game because of this...is high.

Tl;dr Parsers are easily available so SE doesn't need to allocate man hours to it. Glam mods are no so easily available.

[Lambdafish]

The resource argument is purely for the fact that parsers are currently downloadable for free, no cost to the players or SE.

Whereas, I believe that there is currently no reskinning program that will allow you to glam, change race, and overlay mounts at your whim...others won't see it but you will...and I don't think there is such a program available for people...

Where it is true that opening parsers to the general populace would make people "transparent" and allow for more accountability, but the chances of people leaving the game because of this...is high.

Tl;dr Parsers are easily available so SE doesn't need to allocate man hours to it. Glam mods are no so easily available.

WoW is PC exclusive, which means that 100% of the playerbase has access to a parser if they really wanted to, whereas XIV is across the PS3 and PS4 where those players literally have no access to such a tool, putting them at a "disadvantage" to PC players if they ever wanted or needed to use a parser. People could cite FFXI as a game that didnt have or need parsers/addon support, but this game is far more akin to WoW in it's combat style and requirements than XI, and therefore we need to compare this as WoW if it had a console port that couldn't have a parser

I feel like I'm going around in circles with points being repeated... It's actually worse that some can access and some can't because it there is then an imbalance in the community, imagine if only PC players could glamour, it would be dumb and there would be uproar. The solution, using this logic, is either to ban all parsers, or make them available to everyone, and regardless of which one is right, one is most definitely easier.

Also, as for you saying that people will leave, I don't deny that there is a right and wrong way to implement parsers, but that's not the same as having one being bad.