Parsers add replayability for casual players

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There's a segment of the community that wants everyone held accountable to their arbitrary standards, and parsers are their means to that end. Some people consider that toxic. It's not really an excuse; it's just a way of framing the behavior.

As for parsers themselves being toxic, you're basically just arguing semantics here. When gauging the worth of a tool you always have to look at who will be using it. Can you asses this game's community as a whole and honestly feel like parsers would be a positive addition?

I would actually enjoy having parsers standard in this game, but I'm not willing to take a disingenuous position to argue in favor of them. This community is one of the most bubbling under the surface toxic communities I've seen in any game. I completely understand why SE runs this game like a prison ward, punishes with an iron fist and won't give you kids access to any dangerous toys. It's definitely for your own good.

Tbh based off what I see the potential good in terms of offering the community a transparent means of having g proper discourse regarding performance. Though asking for my assessment is not a good call because I generally do not think a tool should be held accountable for the harm it may cause in the hands of people. I am in favor of lax restrictions across the board let people do as they please but have rules in place to punish those who misuse the tool with harsh punishments to act as a deterrent from such behavior. As mentioned I take the more reactive approach to punishment instead of proactive. Cause generally I feel of course depending on the context we generally in terms of FFXIV I do not think we have the means to properly make a judgement call on potential harm due to slight differences in terms of game balance and philosophy regarding encounter design.

With FFXIV class exclusion may not be as harmful as in other games due to generally outside out of a few cases like Bard even in that case no class within a role does not perform to such a large degree better then another that their viability would be questioned by the community at large. Generally in terms of META given this game now lacks many direct synergies as in other games the meta would not create such a massive difference in terms of ease of encounter like in other games. Also with the flexibility of job choice and gearing exclusion is not much of a concern. Still a concern but can we honestly say it will be as bad as it will be in other games? Personally I cannot make that judgement though I also think no can the other side.

Now in terms of pure raw numbers associated with the increase availability of the tool yes cases of misuse will go up, but I do wonder how large of a difference would be it compared to the amount of actionable reports currently. Then when accounted for such an increase of availability how large would the difference would be between both data points.

Though I do agree amount of misuse reports would go up but I do wonder how many of said reports would be considered action worthy. Though I get generally people are often more in favor of more proactive approach when it comes to things. I get it often easier to take prove me it wrong approach using other data points and other points of reference. Though I am often in favor of let us just test it and see what happens though I get doing that is not possible.