Quote Originally Posted by Staris View Post
voice chat is third party program and not authorized... [snip]
Why must the Internet always degenerate into ad absurdum arguments? None of those are designed to modify the Game or gameplay, nor do they utilise any information generated, derived or displayed by the Game.

SE have made it fairly clear that, for the time being, parsers are against ToS, I don't see there being any dispute there whatsoever. Now, a DPS dummy would be good - achievements can be used to prove you can hit a certain threshold - but given the hunts and players' attitudes during those, I can understand a certain reluctance to allow parsers.

Personally, having raided at endgame in other MMOs (not started in FFXIV, so this is theoretical), I don't often find use for a parser. I find the only real use being dummy training to see if a different gearing/rotation is beneficial (in theory). I've nothing against them, just don't really see the need beyond a dummy test.