Quote Originally Posted by Sonatia View Post
The language used by pro-parsers in this thread is pretty much self-explanatory and self-evident. Calling people "clowns", "softies", "baddies" and the like for disagreeing, telling them to just "get over it" in regards to extreme verbal abuse (victim blaming much?). All arguments for parsers so far have yet to be articulated in a civil and constructive manner. And yet you wonder, with people like you being pro-parser, why the devs are against officially endorsing it?
As I have said many times before in threads like this, SE are never going to give us an in-game parser until the community can prove to them that it would be very rare for it to be used as a tool to needlessly insult someone. And looking at this thread it is clear the community still hasn't reached that level of behaviour. I don't think it ever will.

We don't have an in-game parser, most players don't even use a parser, and still in the forums we very frequently see people being incredibly rude towards those they think are below them. Imagine what it would be like if every player had access to them. Well I don't need to imagine because I have seen it and it's not pretty. One of the things that drove me to leave WoW is how unnecessarily hostile people can be towards one another regarding performance. And I wasn't even the target of the hostility because I am a good player. Just watching it was enough for me to get sick of it. Seeing how well behaved the FFXIV community is by comparison is one the major reasons why I dropped WoW in favour of this game.

Also parsers won't magically improve the average skill of the playerbase. I played WoW for a very long time and I met loads of terrible players, some of them even used parsers! If someone doesn't want to or is unable to play better a parser isn't going to change that. Those who want to improve always eventually do. I have seen in this game players without parsers improve their performance solely on the drive to become better. They used only the tools the game gave them to improve.

And frankly it's clear from some of the comments here that some people want an in-game parser so that they can be free to say the words they say here about the general playerbase directly to players they encounter in instances. It's because of players like them that SE absolutely refuse to give us an in-game parser. But these people won't change because they think they're justified in tossing out insults. So we will never get a parser.