Quote Originally Posted by JunseiKei View Post
To be fair, the Feast chat was absolutely horrendous. I can't believe some of the messages that were being sent when SE was pushing Feast really hard. Screenshots from friends from what they experienced, just from lapse of judgement on their part. The vetern XIV PvPers were not at all friendly by any means to having new blood competing if they were stuck with them on the same team.

I mean jeeze, I remember a friend being upset and posting a screenshot of someone telling her to uninstall and hang herself because of a loss. Told her to report the player, but the fact it was even said is just astonishing.

About the topic, I don't care about parses. I take issue when people use it as a leaderboard or to bar people from content they can do. In some other thread, I had talked about Aether having a few PFs with number/log requirements to join. People came back and said they've been online all week or something and said they never saw anything. I hadn't taken screenshots because I generally don't for those sorts of things and my comment basically got talked down to a 'pic or it didn't happen' status.

Late, but they do exist:

This was earlier today on Aether. This is the kind of stuff as to what makes me not like parsing (actually, it's more FFLogs than parsing, because of the leaderboard-like settings that some people seem to like pushing). I fully expect a 'their party, their rules' or 'make your own party' statement to be typed, or something to do with play styles. My main point to this particular screenshot is to have grey DPS means you have cleared the fight (it just means you might not have had a particularly good comp to boost your numbers) or haven't quite the gear to get better numbers. That speaks nothing of your competence. :\
You get grey DPS by underperforming or repeatedly dying. You can have decent gear and a mediocre comp and still achieve a decent rating on the parse. They're free to make what rules they want on their PF entry, that's the entire point of having the freedom to make your own PF whenever you want. If they're going to look at like one grey log from one clear with someone dying a bunch or whatever to get a grey parse then they're not people you want to associate with. The same thing everyone has said already. The tool doesn't make someone into an asshole, they were already an asshole and they would've found another way to judge people. They would've cranked up the item level and then people would post a screenshot saying the item level is too high.

Be thankful they even checked the parse, they could've enforced a meta comp and then people would complain they can't go as SAM or BLM or whatever, there will always be a new thing for someone to blame or exclude. Be thankful this time it's something that can be factchecked. Repeated grey parses? No good. A grey or a few greys where you can identify it wasn't their fault? Fine. People have the right to decide who is in their party for whatever reason they want - even your choice of race and job combo.