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

[Aylis]

I answered as best as I can (am pro-parser) and I look forward to the results!

I would like to add in though under the topic of personal experiences with parsers and active harassment twords either others or myself. Totally outside FFXIX because I play other games that do have an active public parsing system built into the games. In those games never have I once seen harassment of others or been a victim myself of number harassment. The only occasions where convos creep in of "hey your numbers are kinda low" is when it pertains to the most upper end raids. Which is understandable, for basic content, most generally don't really say anything about others numbers.

I almost wonder if that's why parsing toxcity exists here, simply because the numbers for everyone ain't shown. While in the other games where they are shown, it almost triggers a mental thing cos nobody wants to be "that player" when numbers are shown and it shows who's not pulling their own weight. I do far more content in those games then here and because of parsers and shown numbers, things like ice mages, voiceless bards and dragoons with broken ankles really just don't exist. Everyone pulls their own weight as best as they can.