So, can we just ban damage meters already.

[xJimmehx]

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-Having better internet or pc is something out of SEs control. In game parsers are not.
They CANT ban it. They cannot detect it. If they try to write anti parser code, people will just make a different parser and they will be stuck in an endless loop of anti parse patches. FFXIV anti cheat will basically become malware and as others have said, SE would lose way too much time and resources to fight it.

-Allowing parses will not hurt the community so long as they still ban the players who harass others with them. Even with "guns" its the same thing. Lawful citizens should be able to protect themselves from being killed in their own homes. Removing weapons from lawful citizens doesnt lower gun crime. Because...they're lawful citizens in the first place..? Taking them from criminals is impossible. The only thing you can do in this case is let citizens defend themselves and punish them heavily if they abuse their rights according to law. (in my area shooting a man in the back even in "self defence" is murder because he isnt attacking you if hes not facing you)

-The concept im trying to get across is this. If you do not have the power to stop the parsers from parsing but do have the power to ban people who are jerks to their fellow players, why should you punish the innocent ps4 players instead? Ps4 players arent calling out peoples parses. Hell, they arent even given the chance to prove SE wrong. Its as if SE thinks ps4 players cannot be trusted to play by the rules.

-People are only worried about the way they will be treated and the potential embarrassment. Not the tool itself.

-If you can ban the people who rudely shame others and embarrass them, why would you still settle for being punished for playing as a ps4 user when you can have both proper moderation of the parsing community AND a parser on ps4 which would level the playing field for both consoles and pcs? Why would adding a parsing system to a game increase the amount of harassment cases if they issue bans appropriately? We have parsers on pc and ps4 does not. Their are good and bad people in both communities. Why punish the good people who haven't even done anything when you can punish the bad people for shaming and kicking? Its like saying "Because some pc players are mean, instead of addressing their behavior, we are going to punish ps4 users." It doesn't make sense.

-I get it. People think that if you disallow users access to parsers, then that means less parsers overall so it also means less jerk parsers. But what it also means is no ps4 parsers at all. You wont affect us over on pc. So long as we "dont ask dont tell."

-Why is Ps4 incapable of "Dont ask, Dont tell"? Why trust us pc players but punish ps4 players?

-Imagine if they banned computers everywhere because a handful of idiots looked at minors on porn sites. Imagine if they banned all alcohol because some men get drunk and assault their wives. Imagine if they took all of our medicines from our hospitals because a group of people lie about being sick to abuse drugs or sell them to people who will. It doesnt make sense. Punish people for being bad people. Do not punish good people because of the bad. A tool is just a tool. Its how you use it that matters and quite frankly, as stated before, they cannot stop pc players. Pc is the prince and Ps4 is our whipping boy who gets punished in our stead.