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

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How are you going to google something that doesn't exist without a parser? You going to trust some random guys feelings over mathematical data you can verify yourself?

If I happen to play on console or had no desire to download a third party program I would follow the guides and information on internet. Also people have put together decent rotations from just class previews, they are far from perfect and if say SE blocked ACT tomorrow and a new class came out. The theory crafting community with time would come up with an on point rotation. Granted it would take a little more time for the community to come up with said rotation but I am pretty sure they will be able to do it. People are funny like that, if they want something bad enough they will figure it out no matter how long it takes. Parse makes the gathering and viewing of data easier, but I am pretty sure those work on said programs know how to view the data without the use of a parse so in short they would still have access to that data.

End of the day ACT is not going anywhere we will still have access to the tool. I just highly doubt SE will ever release any official means of tracking performance especially after one of their hosts for nico nico was more or less bash their sub-par numbers. Granted it is one case I highly doubt Yoshi-P will be forgetting said case anytime soon. Maybe if powers shift and Yoshi-P is moved to another project we might get an official one, but while he is behind the helm I highly doubt it.

Granted that shafts console players, and players that wish to refine their play without the use of third party tools. I still fail to see how that is SE problem. We have an option available to us, while it may not be readily available to everyone that is not SE problem. SE tends to stick to their guns no matter how pointless people feel about it. I mean I would love for them to bring back the chat feature in PvP and be able to mail between my own characters on a server. More or less many have shown neither action does much of anything to counteract the issue they were put in place to combat, but we still have said limitations.

I mean unless by some means everyone can prove that the whole community wants this and the whole Koike incident never happens again I do not see us ever getting an official one. I would like to have an official parse, but I also do not see the point we have ACT and FFlogs an official one would be nice but not necessary.

Also If the person really wants to refine their rotation and play that much they will find a means, even if that means bugging a raid buddy to parse them.

Though thankfully from what I can tell not many are asking for them to be removed, I certainly am not. Sure I would like for FFLogs to be opt-in instead of out, but I do not want it to be removed.

Maybe if we asked them to release a parser on mogstation we might get an official one that way.