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[Shougun]

And quite frankly all of my arguments sums up just one thing. I do not want a parser especially when it is not needed.

Fair enough , for me parser is more of a means to an end (and I play casually so watching guides is enough for me to feel good that I'm not super bad, maybe just meh lol).

What I mean by this is that I see them adding a parser is most likely the path to addons, and I loved the QoL addons in WoW. Rather than asking SE to add a search bar into the inventory, and them reply "memory issues, can't" I'll just have an addon do it for me lol. I understand the concern that some addons may bring (DBM*) in which case if SE wants they could have a sort of Apple Store, but I'd still like to see addons. If parsers never get added I basically see addons as /never/ being added either because you'd have to make a pretty bad scripting language for players not to be able to make one themselves if you added addon support, so I see addons and parser being a natural chicken/egg sort of deal (I suppose they could purposefully ban reading damage chat logs but not other logs, but that seems a bit silly.. I'd take it over nothing).

*Although I would add that DBM and like mods make the game easier for casual player, new to MMO, and first time no guide blind run players, since they do things like remind you to stack and tell you to get out of the puddle you're standing in - basically its like if you had a good player sitting in the same room as you, they can't touch your keyboard but they could guide you not to die.. which is both a good and bad thing, makes the game easier and devs wont make it too hard on casual content so that wont change but it does require that the devs make harder content for the harder stuff lol (meaning if you dont use it you're looking at a taller wall). Also of course adding that some of these features are already present in one of the tools discussed in this thread, so its vaguely already here affecting gameplay just that SE has no idea when it is because they've asked not to be told haha. PS4 is not an issue to me since they can use mods (other games have made it work), perhaps Sony made them do a bunch of hoops first though lol.