Quote Originally Posted by Seddrinth View Post
I think for every "know streamer" there are 10s of thousands of non-streamer players who just want to enjoy end game content and improve themselves. You just don't notice them because they mind their own business and don't bother other people. It's a bad message to send to new players that this game doesn't allow parsers, because they will not be able to find the programs easily. If these self-help tools were made available then you would be helping a lot of players better enjoy their gameplay experience.
Years of case studies of parse tools show they are very often used poorly and for shaming and it's the "Don't ask, Don't tell" mentality that stops the majority of that behaviour for fear of reprisal.

If we had an official tool, the shaming behaviour would increase exponentially. I still remember the huge discussion about it in Rift, when Trion caved and put in an official parser, it immediately started being used for bad.

"Don't ask, Don't tell" and unsupported is how it should stay.