Letter to MR Yoshi: Why parses system is destroying the ffxiv world.

[KaivaC]

It is very hard to ignore the blatant ignorance that is spread over this topic.

The problem is the number of people who actually know how those tools work can be counted on one hand, and they're not accurate or reliable tools, but people want to believe they are so they can bludgeon other users with them. Everyone who doesn't like the site should explicitly optout of the site, and if people won't party with you for hiding parses, report them.

And now you have made your way into this thread. I swear, this topic draws in folks like this on an almost regular basis. I feel like this is FFXIV's version of Street Fighter. You know, with the never-ending sequels of the 90s. Super Parser Fighter II Anniversary HD Remix Ultimate Edition. No matter how much the bad guy loses, they still find a way to show up in the next battle to do the exact same thing (in this case, show that they are wrong).

So anyways, what is there even to report? If I do a PF, look up your logs without telling you and decide I don't want you in my party because you are only parsing greys (in this case, let's say you are a SAM whose averages 3K, and you've been doing Sigmascape savage since it debuted), your suggestion is to report me for kicking you without saying a word to you??? By this logic, you would rather the party is forced to carry you because you cannot get good enough to at least pull 5k? (I choose SAM specifically to illustrate something). This isn't the DF - why should I be forced to keep you in my PF where I am wanting to either get a speedkill, clear on the first pull, without having to go out of my way to make up for a 3K SAM? I chose this specific example for a reason, so if you choose to respond, please keep it within the confines of the example I laid out for you.

[Hakuro89]

And now you have made your way into this thread. I swear, this topic draws in folks like this on an almost regular basis.

It's funny you seem surprised that a thread demonizing parsers attracted Kisai to it. If anything I'm surprised it took this long for him to show up with a gallon of gasoline for this obnoxious grease fire of a thread.

[KisaiTenshi]

And now you have made your way into this thread. I swear, this topic draws in folks like this on an almost regular basis.

Nobody asked anyone in the thread to come to this thread. You can walk away without adding your 2 cents.

I'm objectively right about how the parsers work and the kind of damage it does to the game. If you don't see it as cheating, then you clearly don't enjoy playing games, and would be just as entertained by watching someone else play it on twitch.

Yoshi-P is not going to make "harder" content because the content was not designed to be played with cheat tools. You want to cheat, later claim the game is too easy. Maybe quit using the tools and you'll see where the difficulty is supposed to be. If anything the content is getting watered down because the parser users are falling outside the bell curve.

[Hakuro89]

Nobody asked anyone in the thread to come to this thread. You can walk away without adding your 2 cents.

Practice what you preach.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I'm objectively...

Wrong, arrogant, misinformed, ignorant, stubborn. There are plenty of adjectives fitting this sentence, "right" is certainly not among them.

An absence of parsers isn't going to make Sigma Normal suddenly challenging. You conveniently keep ignoring the aforementioned the Phantom Train example. If both healers primarily heal, one of them will be objectively useless. The fight simply doesn't do enough damage to warrant two healers. A parser, or lack thereof, wouldn't change that. In fact, nobody even cares to run parsers for stuff like this because they're entirely brain dead. But please, example how I can have six vulnerability stacks against the first boss of Hell's Lid and still not even take 50% damage from his "tank buster." Or how about Chadarnook Normal, where I elect not to go into the plane yet survive with half my health. How would deleting parsers from the game change how laughably insignificant those mechanics are? They aren't going to magically become more threatening.

How about Alte Roite Savage? The boss hardcore raiders downed in two pulls or less. He was so pathetically easy for a Savage fight even casual groups took a single lockout to kill him. This is before triggers, Cactbot or any of the actual tools you keep incorrectly referring to were even available. People can't make timelines or triggers for a fight they don't even know. He was just that damn easy.

[Ultima]

Nobody asked anyone in the thread to come to this thread. You can walk away without adding your 2 cents.

I'm objectively right about how the parsers work and the kind of damage it does to the game. If you don't see it as cheating, then you clearly don't enjoy playing games, and would be just as entertained by watching someone else play it on twitch.

Yoshi-P is not going to make "harder" content because the content was not designed to be played with cheat tools. You want to cheat, later claim the game is too easy. Maybe quit using the tools and you'll see where the difficulty is supposed to be. If anything the content is getting watered down because the parser users are falling outside the bell curve.

Hey hey, Kisai. If the game was so much better before parsers then how come ARR is widely panned as inferior to HW in terms of mechanical depth and gameplay? ARR 2.0 where the pinnacle of game design was "knocks you off a cliff XDDDDDDDDD"

[KaivaC]

Nobody asked anyone in the thread to come to this thread. You can walk away without adding your 2 cents.

But the real question though is are you M. Bison or Vega? That's what I wanna know. You sure pop up in these threads enough after every defeat.

I'm objectively right about how the parsers work and the kind of damage it does to the game.

Yeah, no. Objectively, you have an opinion. Objectively, you are talking out of your behind again.

If you don't see it as cheating, then you clearly don't enjoy playing games, and would be just as entertained by watching someone else play it on twitch.

First off, it's not cheating. It's been pointed out to you multiple times. Ain't no point in dragging this particular point out with you - if you haven't gotten it by now after being explained this simple idea multiple times, then you're just not going to get it. But hey...glad you can point out what I do and don't have enjoyment in. I'll have you know, modding Fallout 4 to have unique weapons makes it much more entertaining - is that cheating as well? Oh, by the way, I was very entertained watching Mr. Happy doing UwU progress. Just as twitch entertains millions of other people on a daily basis. Why you make twitch sound so bad just because you don't use it. The hate flows through you, Kisai.

Yoshi-P is not going to make "harder" content because the content was not designed to be played with cheat tools. You want to cheat, later claim the game is too easy. Maybe quit using the tools and you'll see where the difficulty is supposed to be. If anything the content is getting watered down because the parser users are falling outside the bell curve.

Umm...this came out of nowhere. Nobody really brought up harder content. Also, the harder content literally is Ultimate - they intend to continue these fights in 5.0, so what are you talking about? Also, content is getting watered down because it draws in casual players, and then a good number of those same players get complacent and whine about hard fights. I missed out on the whole whining about Tsuku, but back when I was still on this character, her Ex fight wasn't even that hard. Yet the casual base was whining for nerfs for her normal fight. And honestly, before I even discovered parsing, I found that release-date Shinryu wasn't all that hard. Yet players whined and complained for a nerf on that. Maybe, just maybe, there are a lot of casual players who just suck?

Ever think about that, in your never-ending complaints about the raiding community?

[MaloraYuki]

Nobody asked anyone in the thread to come to this thread. You can walk away without adding your 2 cents.

I'm objectively right about how the parsers work and the kind of damage it does to the game. If you don't see it as cheating, then you clearly don't enjoy playing games, and would be just as entertained by watching someone else play it on twitch.

Yoshi-P is not going to make "harder" content because the content was not designed to be played with cheat tools. You want to cheat, later claim the game is too easy. Maybe quit using the tools and you'll see where the difficulty is supposed to be. If anything the content is getting watered down because the parser users are falling outside the bell curve.

Once again I don’t like it so no one else should either! Lol why don’t you go cry somewhere else? Other people do like parsers it does help with personal improvement and is fun for people who want to play optimal and understand the numbers. And those “cheat tools” as you call them are used by world first groups that yoshida watches sooooo. Don’t like parsers don’t use them plain and simple don’t like fflogs don’t use it. Stop ruining everyone else’s fun because you are a cry baby.

[24spencer]

I'm objectively right about how the parsers work and the kind of damage it does to the game.

being objectively right requires objective proof, which you do not have.
you do not become objectively right just by saying you are.