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

[KaldeaSahaline]

Players will always find a way to exclude others and it's in SE's best interest not to put their big rubber stamp that that sort of mentality is okay.

Did you miss the fact that PF is incredibly exclusionary by nature and SE made it even more so in SB, thus putting their big rubber stamp on that mentality as being OK?

This game would only become more toxic with parsing and people would just stop including players who didnt quite make the bill. (Even if they are actually very good people.)

Do you mind linking to the study that showed without a doubt that parsers directly create more toxicity?

I'd be really interested in reading it if you had it. Or were you just posting from an anecdotal emotional standpoint?

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.

Bingo IMO of course. I said it in another post, we don't want to harass you about your numbers. We want you to see your numbers so we DON'T have to say anything to you about them. You'll see them and make the conscious decision to either improve or be excluded.

Exclusions doesn't have to be so badly connoted for the majority.

• Criminals are excluded from the general public
• People are excluded from being allowed to walk on highways
• JV players are excluded from Varsity sports
• Unqualified candidates are excluded from jobs
• Less intelligent students are excluded from good schools

Are these bad things too?