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

[Auden_Lhant]

I completed the survey . I wouldn't mind an official parser I would love to know how I'm doing before joining in content, as I wouldn't want to slow my group down. I've always been open to advise but sadly due to players lashing out, not many give advise anymore at least that's how it seems to me. Having a tool to help me improve just sounds like a great idea to me. There are people who will abuse it sure, but the players who do can be reported, no point in punishing everyone because of a few bad apples.

[Gleipni]

Hey Op,could we have a peek at the result ? to know the tendency

[KaldeaSahaline]

So you just admitted why you do not see the mass toxicity because of Parsers ? I really do not get the point of your post, sorry.

You responded to a statement I made to another poster.
They said:

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.)

To which I said:

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

That's when you responded:

Play wow, or hell it even happens in this game time to time even though it is supposed to be "not allowed"

So now that we can see the breadcrumbs let's analyze it. You were implying that WoW was more toxic, to which I offered a dozen or so albeit anecdotal responses demonstrating that I experience more toxicity in FF14 than WoW and explained the reasoning for it.

So yes, in essence, strictly speaking from my own experience, parsers have led to a much better gaming experience for me, across MULTIPLE MMOs, not just one, in over a decade of gaming.

Liked your post and sorry if I sound like a broken record to some. The big thing I feel now, after connecting the dots sort of speak, is it is possible they feel would lead to a lot of reports to deal with. If they have a limited size GM staff, it means they need more GMs. I feel this game has a really small budget, leading them to design measures to limit GM calls and limit harassment.

Anyways, ya I liked what ya said

I don't know their budget. What I do know is that they definitely have a lot of dev staff (as was evidenced in a very thorough reddit post that showed FF14 had the largest modern MMO dev team). I can only assume that based on the size of the dev team, that they probably have enough GM's to handle the requests as well. There's unfortunately no way to know for sure.

You are living this game, slow down bud or give a mmorpg a break.

What do you mean "living this game" slow down or give a break? I play on average 3 hours a week... How much do YOU play?

If you are doing well enough and know your job, why do you even need a parser? If that would happen to me, i would be proud of myself i did something on my own, and recommendations would seal it even stronger, because i know and they know who was the best.

Because the only reason I got this good and learned the job was because of the parser. God knows where I'd be without it, or where the community would be without the guides created via hours of testing and tuning with parsers.

[Sylvina]

Where is the "I'm Pro parser but only if its personal only and not displayed to other players" option?

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Took the survey, I think the results will be interesting to read.

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They shouldnt become an avenue for harrasment or
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Harassment is already against the terms of service.
A parser doesn't change that...

[RLofOBFL]

-Anxiously waiting for results-

[Jijifli]

Where is the "I'm Pro parser but only if its personal only and not displayed to other players" option?

The Pro Parser one has a section where you can say you just want a personal one. It has a list of different kinds to see what people want.

[SenorPatty]

Harassment is already against the terms of service.
A parser doesn't change that...

I think they (the anti parser crowd) already know this. What thet will not admit is that they view even the most neutral of callouts harassment and since SE puts neutral callouts at playstyle differences level, it can't be sanctioned.

So imagine for them, a neutral callout but this time specifically listing what they're doing wrong with hard evidence is even worse.

That's their "parser harassment"- the kind that they can't handle and know they can't get people banned for.

[CatStarPrime]

When you do this again can you explain what you mean by indifferent? I think that would of fit some people here better that picked something else.

I am likely an "indifferent" -

I'm "one of those" - I play because this is Final Fantasy. I'm here for the story. I run each dungeon and trial required to advance the main story, once. I don't go into the Extreme and Savage content. I don't run roulettes. I'm happy wearing the best-available HQ crafted gear.

I do my homework - I practice my role, and my rotations, and read the forum for tips, tricks, and advice. I study game film

I am not a bad Summoner. I care about being at least adequate.

But past advancing the MSQ, I don't have any higher goals.

So. It's likely no one will ever log/parse me, with my one-and-done playstyle. And I will certainly never parse anyone else.

[Deceptus]

Filled out, hope it helps you with your data.

From a casual who doesn't do savages, is a dungeon hero, and dabbles in Ex's.

Cross posted to /r/ffxiv to attempt to get you more data.