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

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That reddit thread is plagued with so many disingenuous assertions and assumption is hurts to read. One I find particularly egregious:

We already have people who use FFLogs to exclude others from PF farm parties (exactly the other behavior Yoshi-P expressly feared and wanted to avoid); even if the overall playerbase skill did improve, the behavior of these sorts of people would not. It's not "we don't care about PS4 players", it's "we care about not losing players due to others' poisonous behavior and we aren't going to officially enable those actions by providing ingame tools." Right now, they can ban for acting like that by using your parser as a TOS violation. If they implemented one ingame, they'd have no recourse to fall back on.

Bullshit. Unless they abruptly rescind their harassment policies, anyone crossing the line would be rightfully reprimanded. Instead, we have silent kicks or party disbands because we can't mention who the weak link is. I suppose I'll never understand how people can make such a quantum leap in logic. "SE will completely ignore their own harassment policies and allow toxicity if an in-game parser were implemented."

I find it funny and semi ironic someone being semi-passive aggressive is trying to argue there is no issues with parsers.

And I tire of you repeatedly reading only what you want to. No one, ever, in any of the what, four parse threads that have been on the main page over the last month, have claimed parsers have no issues. Only you have insisted this nonsense. We all acknowledge there will be abuse, just like people abuse Vote Kick and etc. What we actually argue is the positives will outweigh the negatives, and bad applies should be properly reprimanded.