Quote Originally Posted by Awful View Post
Then I don't see how it's an issue with parsers per se if you don't raid or do high endgame content you're not even actively hounded for your DPS or performance since the only reason you'd know is if you went to FFlogs, typed in your name, and saw you were parsed. It doesn't even mean anything in low end content/leveling what people complain about is using your actual abilities in a group setting no one cares that you were grey in an expert, no one cares that you're 100% in an expert people just gauge it because they like to see where they stand I've never seen it as a shaming tool.
See that's the thing. You don't have to understand my apprehension, and I really have nothing to justify to you or anyone else. To me, it's those not following the official TOS that need to justify to the rest of us why others should be parsed without consent and have to opt out if we don't like it. Whether it causes me any additional annoyance, harm, etc is really beside the point.

Not to mention you can just hide yourself and no one will even know you exist or do any kind of battle content if you prefer that, I don't get how it's an intrusion when you don't even know if you're being parsed even if you turned it off of your profile. Besides in dungeons and such you can tell who's not pulling their weight very easily (DPS that don't AoE, Healers that spam Cure II and don't DPS, tanks that pull the world and use 0 CDs and 1-2-3 bosses) the games very team oriented just like any other MMO.

Sure, and I have hidden it. Why should I have had to though? Now cue people being suspicious and claiming I have something to hide, as though having something to hide is even an inherently bad thing. I have blinds on my windows too. And if you can pinpoint most problems by just eyeballing them then what's the need of a parser anyway?