Quote Originally Posted by Taika View Post
How does that have anything to do with parsers though? Seems like a question of really unbalanced gear design.
I think the point was without parsers the players wouldn't have been aware they could be lazy and still perform well the rankings so wouldn't have changed their play style.

Having played WoW I think parsers caused just as much trouble as they helped. In static raid groups or as an individual they helped but the ability to display the results in chat frequently ended up more as griefing than help in PUGs. I also saw people I knew to be good players kicked just because they had a bad fight for whatever reason. I'd have no problem with a built in parser if it was only for the individual and the only way to see an aggregate for the player base would be on external websites that do rankings voluntarily.