Survey: Community Opinions Regarding Parsing/Parsers in Final Fantasy XIV

[Istaru]

I can’t be honest and finish your survey as written. I wanted to, you’re one of the few that I really like here.

I am indifferent to parsers.

I have seen terrible players perform terribly over many years and quite simply, I have given up on this community in this regard and simply don’t care anymore.

As such, no matter what, I just don’t care. I do not expect the playerbase as a whole to improve of any significant amount. A parser, group, personal or otherwise is not going to change my lack of faith that the effort to implement one is going to do much of anything. There are too many people who know they aren’t “optimal” and they simply don’t care. Rather than continue to get aggravated by them, I have chosen to throw my arms up and just stop caring. It’s either that or full on quit for me at this point.

They have spent a bit of effort to lower the floor so people can perform better, and that hasn’t helped. It aggravates me, I liked some of those complexities they removed. Adding in a parser to tell people that they are doing poorly won’t help either.m

If you get bored and want to discuss further, I did friend you on Discord some time ago.