Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
This topic always goes the same way.

"Dps meters will create toxicity!"
"But toxic behavior is against ToS?"
"People will bully others!"
"But they can't, it's against ToS..."
"Statics will exclude everyone!"
"But everyone who raids uses fflogs anyway, lots of causal statics exist and it's been fine?"
"Toxicity!"
"But...?"
"Toxicity!!!!"

There's no argument here and logic has been presented a million times. The simple fact is underperforming players don't want their performance to be visible. Even if no one bullies them, they hate that others are doing better or being presented with proof they're holding a group back by not trying or caring. So they want to stick their fingers in their ears and pretend numbers don't exist. And that's the environment SE wants to foster, because in their eyes those players are potential customers and they can just push the better players to carry them.
No, many of us who are against parsers in game or open parsing arent hard against parsing all the time and have probably added up our battle logs ourselves from time to time to see how we perform or which DPS we might want to use in certain content.

What we dont want is for a situation where gamer(tm) types are giving sprouts and people who are cutting their teeth at harder content shit over their parses in ARR/HW/SB/ShB content. Or rolling into casual fun runs and lambasting people. Which is exactly what would happen.

If you regularly runs blinds it can be a nighrmare not to have some idiot roll into the group gabbling on about the guide and wondering why people havent got a walkthrough open on another screen, or enter a blind prog and are surprised to learn that you actually have to set aside an hour or two to actually prog the damned thing.

Imagine giving those people an in-game parser? It would be a right pain in the arse.