Quote Originally Posted by Hausti View Post
Oh another parser thread. We absolutely need more of those. (/sarcasm)
You contribute nothing and are bumping the thread. This is counterproductive to your implied values.

aside from that, I'd like to restate. I WANT them to stop at personal. I want the choice to be a min/max-er or the choice to get into the insanity that is bleeding-edge high-difficulty run mentality to be up to the player.
Now in the past I've add my two cents and agreed that: People should be able to do this IF THEY WANT TO. It should be available across all platforms and nobody should be forced to participate.

A full parser but you can turn it off individually would be fine. A full parser but you have to mark it as activated for the PF. A full parser ONLY active in savage+ difficulty runs. Both fine.

A system that will force people across the board to post up easily antagonizeable numbers constantly is a poor solution for "these people are under performing". Negative reinforcement is one of the things I hate with a vengeance and that's how that will go down.
It's very rare for people to offer well thought out and constructive criticism in online communities. The people who DO are probably already using FFlogs and sharing information. Giving a tool to lay everyones shortcomings bare, without regulation or option is a recipe for many unhappy players. "I don't want to try new content with randoms, people are such jerks about it." "We don't have enough people to run *thing*, lets not do it, I don't want some jerk(s) giving us shit all night".
The amount of people I encounter who offer unhelpful and negative criticism in all games I play encourages me to strongly dislike anything that might give them ammo.

and before anyone suggests the common denominator is me and hey maybe I need to improve , I take criticism well. If it provides any kind of suggestion on how to improve I'll try it. Through this I learned how to tank better, and in many games I've significantly increased performance. But I've never been told "God, you're a shitty *class/character/job* and wandered off to go find out WHY that person has said that JUST from that comment. "LOL our dps has 200DPS lower than me and I'm healing". I'm not asking that person for helpful tips.