Letter to Mr. Yoshi

[Ultima]

Sorry, too many comments. I picked one, but my answer works for all.

I disagree that things wouldn't change if parses were allowed. A game that focuses on competition (highlighting the players that do more damage and giving notice of the ones who did the least) is not going to be the same as it's right now, nor are people going to be as quiet if the game itself is giving them green light to judge others. Again, I find FFXIV relaxing because it doesn't focus on competition but on team work (unlike the previous game I played, which felt vastly different), and it doesn't pressure people to meet any sort of weird standard beyond the minimum to take bosses down. This is just my personal opinion, of course, but I can understand where Yoshida's coming from.

You have no proof that things would change if parsers were allowed because they already exist and are seen on-stream by the developers when doing content, a grand sum of people use them or benefit from their existence due to the resources created from the data. The game doesn't become competitive by showing that Shoeless Jim is doing 6k DPS and Sally Skillclick is doing 3k DPS. What it does is it that makes people wonder why Sally isn't giving her best for the team? You know, that thing that teamwork is founded on? You're suppose to give all you can and then some for the sake of the team. You have a distorted idea of teamwork if you think the bare minimum is acceptable in a team and I would not want you in my group because that is not relaxing. Having people who are so lazy that they don't want to strive to do the most they can for the team is incredibly stressful because it means I have to pick up the slack on content that has been current for months. Doing the same piece of content over and over, we naturally want to get it done faster and faster until we've reached the fastest we can.

That doesn't mean I'm going to kick people and demand the best of the best, it means I want the general community opinion to be "I am playing with 3/7/23 other people, I shouldn't waste their time by just doing enough to clear the fight." You can pass a course with a C, but I'd rather we all aim for an A and be thankful when we achieve a B when it was difficult and all strive for an A when it's brainless like "Expert" Roulette is. I'm sick and tired of people disrespecting me and everyone else by refusing to learn their rotation or to even use their AoE skills during a MASSIVE PULL or even refusing to use the ranged/mage LB when called upon.

When you're in a team and one person is just sliding by or mooching off your efforts, you remove him or in a school setting you tell the teacher that they're not working and they straighten up or they get an F, be thankful that SE doesn't just Duty Fail people for being slackers, though I wish they did when someone is netflixing.

Added bonus: People who play brainless jobs like SAM where they've had their rotation since level 50 and still can't maintain it by EXR are an example of why people are removed from groups.