How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[KaivaC]

They would have to hire more people to deal with all the nonsense from people being jerks about parsers. Bear in mind that I am very much for personal parsers. I really don't see the harm in letting people know where they stand as long as that information can't immediately be turned on people. Sometimes you get to carry really bad players and that is life in an MMO. But it seems really unfair that console players have no way to gauge their performance without someone else parsing them.

I also think, in addition to personal parses, that the game should give a basic rating to performance, just because contextless numbers are kinda meaningless. just a bad/decent/good rating, though they would have to be really careful with how they word the hey you suck message.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Musosai in the initial Samurai quest comment on the skills that you were using in your fight against him? Couldn't something like that be implemented in-game with an official parser similar to the screen after every PvP match?

I don't think they would need to hire many more - people would just need to actually report harassment (I should probably take that advice too, but I generally don't like stirring up trouble for any reason in case of backlash).

Actually, now that I think about it, there is a site that analyzes a log you've submitted and it gives you tips on areas that you can improve in, and areas that you're generally doing pretty well in. Would it really be that hard to implement something like this in game? More so than fflogs, this other site that I've been using seems like a goldmine for self-improvement.