Dam. meter

[SaitoHikari]

As much as I want it to happen, and hopefully in a way that actually improves the community, it's never going to happen.

One has to remember, people have already abused parsers in this very game, without the developers ever encouraging the use of them. Historical precedence already shows that every other game that has an official one tends to have generally crappy communities. If FFXIV implements one and it turns out this game's community follows the same path, it's not something that can ever be rolled back or 'fixed'.

What did I mean by that very first sentence? Let's have the below excerpt explain.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ingame_parser/

“Koike incident”

A female player and celebrity named Miyu Koike, who also happened to be the host for FFXIV’s official Nico Nico channel show, had an incident she attempted to recruit 7 other players to play with her (this was broadcasted live at that time). Abyss of Darkness, a world 3rd Japanese group for Final Coil clear then sneaked into the party (6 of them), streaming themselves through an unofficial channel and then made fun of Koike through slanders, spinning the boss around, and made fun of her DPS performance. Worse, Koike was also sexually harassed when the party disbands.

This prompted the Japanese community to punish the group sending hundreds of naked Roegadyns (Hageruga Matsuri, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOkhhTUjJi0). As a result, these trolls ended up changing their names, servers, deleted their Twitter accounts, issued a non sincere apology through their Nicovideo live broadcast (which further angered the community).

Finally the group ended up a temporary ban given by the lead community representive, Foxclon himself.
The incident did not end in a sweet note however, therefore the group is currently monitored.

The above incident is probably a HUGE reason why we won't ever get a parser, even though people can debate on how much parsing actually mattered in that incident. There's no arguing that it was a factor, though - and we all know by this point that the developers have a higher chance to act towards something (or not at all) if it's an issue within the Japanese community, and this happened there, on an EXTREMELY public platform no less (Nico Nico is essentially the Japanese YouTube, and the victim was an official host for Square Enix). And the developers are probably incredibly miffed (and hugely embarrassed) that something like this ever happened in the first place, and once again, without them ever doing anything to have encouraged it in the first place.

Don't forget, humans as a collective group are quick to act shitty before everything else.

(And I guess if you really want someone to blame, you should take a flight to Japan and punch the gonads of every single member of the raid group that took part in that incident.)

[Dualgunner]

-snip-

Now see, I'd never heard of this. This adds a lot of perspective to their decisions. While I still disagree with that decision, now I have what is probably a far more solid answer to the reasoning they have for this decision. Thank you.