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

[Awha]

Define "average player". When the spread is so wide the term doesn't have a lot of meaning.

Going forward I think we will have a better idea as to what they view as average. Though from how they have handled things so far I think they want to make savage content more accessible, and will shift to ultimate being the new form of hardcore endgame content.

So in your point of view, if someone wants to play his job perfectly, it has to be because he is a long time player who has nothing else to ? And he is a try hard losing nerves?

Does it really sound that weird that someone wants to max out his gameplay without being treated as a try hard who should go play another game ?

To be fair not many care if you personally want to play your job perfectly. Many of us in this very thread use ACT. Issue is what a lot of people are saying is asking for an official parser is a waste of breath. As long as Yoshi-P is still in charge of FFXIV I highly doubt he will ever forget the Koike incident and he will use that one case of bad apples to defend his position of no official parser.

Thankfully we have ACT, and I get that screws over console players and players that do not want to use third party programs though clearly SE has expressed they do not care. If those players truly wish to refine their play they will do it. We have options available to the community use them, while many may not be viable to some that is not SE's problem.

[Deithwen]

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I wasn't specifically refering to my case.
I was pointing out the fact that he basiacally put all people who want to actually improve and play their job to their maximum potential in the same back of try hard people who have too much playtime.

Moreover, that Koike incident has nothing to do with parsers. There were just elitist that acted like pricks in the most disgusting way. I fail to see how parsers can be taken for responsible on this incident. Chances are they would have probably done the same thing without ACT.

[Awha]

I wasn't specifically refering to my case.
I was pointing out the fact that he basiacally put all people who want to actually improve and play their job to their maximum potential in the same back of try hard people who have too much playtime.

Moreover, that Koike incident has nothing to do with parsers. There were just elitist that acted like pricks in the most disgusting way. I fail to see how parsers can be taken for responsible on this incident. Chances are they would have probably done the same thing without ACT.

As many have said including myself yes said incident would have happened even without a parse, but do you honestly think Yoshi-P sees it that way? The man before said incident has been vocal about his disdain for damage meters all this incident did was cement his feelings and provides him with an example to justify his stance. As many have already said this is the hill they choose to die on. Unless we as a community can break the stigma Yoshi-P has over meters or offer to buy meters off the mog station lol will be never get an official one.