Quote Originally Posted by Dualgunner View Post
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Pro-parsers bring anecdotes and assumptions. Anti-parsers bring anecdotes and assumptions. Because fundamentally neither can bring any evidence to the table.

Every time anti-parsers bring up community damage which has been felt in other MMOs the pro-parsers bring up the feel in this game... which is anti-parser by design. "It does not happen here so its ok to bring in parsers". Of course it does not happen here, when barely anyone outside of world first raiders uses them. Compared to the other games that anti-parsers draw on where nearly everyone is told to install a parser, and the very problems they bring up become prevalent issues to the point the only way to have any decent community is to literally try your best to isolate off in a guild and only do guild member runs. Building that safe space wall against a terrible community. Which you can just look at WoW, one of the big examples. Overall its a terrible community of elitists and jerks that parse everything, even content that does not "need" it, and use said parses as an excuse and validation to attack others. Then you have the smaller guilds where people get together and it seems like the community is not so bad, because all they ever do is play together in their small tight community and basically cease paying attention to all the others around them.