Whilst skimming through some of the more recent posts, I read something that gave me a thought. I can't find it, however I think it was something along the lines of, we should add a parser and just see how the community reacts. I don't want to speculate into this area though, I want to, think of the reverse scenario. Take WoW as it is now and completely ban all parsers. Nothing officially supported, nothing unofficially supported, what would the community do? As an extra thought, what if they had the same policy as FFXIV, you can use it, just don't harass others with it. Again, how would the community react?

I cannot answer this question, I have never played WoW, so I have absolutely no idea how bad/good they are in terms of parsers except the anecdotal statement presented by other people. Obviously, there is going to be a range of answers to this, however, it could paint a picture of how ingrained the parser is on WoW and how much it does affect the community as a whole.