Quote Originally Posted by Boblawblah View Post
I'm just imagining a bunch of adults sitting around bickering about how much dps they do on a video game and it's kind of funny.
You don't need to imagine: it's happening live! xD

Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
This thread is living proof that parsing has become a cancer that’s progressively getting worse as the practice becomes more widely accepted. And part of this is the passive-aggressiveness that comes from the community because parsing is banned. Either ban it entirely or accept it officially and let us become competitive like WoW. Having this grey-area cop out isn’t working anymore.

Sadly, I know FFXIV is on the wane and devs don’t want to put too much effort into a title that’s on its way out, but *anything* would be better than this.
Oh can it with the sob story about the game and parsing, will you? Nobody will play the violin for this, you can curb the drama. The community's always been passive-aggressive, it didn't need parsing to bring it to the limelight. Parsing isn't killing anything. Parsing's always existed, and plenty of people accepted its existence before. It hasn't stopped groups from forming, it hasn't stopped crap from being cleared, it hasn't stopped anything. And just as how it exists, people can use it to be jerks, but they also use it to improve and figure stuff out.

Not to mention it's helped people understand how to balance and minmax things if they so choose. No one, and I mean NO ONE, will give you a hard time as an AST for not giving a card to the DRK on his opener. Because nobody cares. Those who do care do so for a reason, and their immediate thought ISN'T to come after you for being a gray parser. And if they kick you out of PF for it, then find another one because your playstyles don't match. Simple as.

I'm not a raider and even I bloody know this.