Quote Originally Posted by Welsper59 View Post
The fact they don't officially support it is SE's tool to help prevent bad behavior on that matter. If someone calls you out on your poor DPS and mocks/kicks you unjustly for it, namely if they actually reveal your numbers or mention parsers, you'd have the opportunity to contact a GM about it and have this person suffer the consequences for their behavior as a result of third party programs. This is something you would NOT be able to do very easily if parsers were officially allowed. Situational mocking of someone is not an offense that violates the ToS just because you hurt someones feelings of their gameplay, afterall.
My point is that it isn't objectively preventing anything at all. Groups will disband and reform without the low parsing dps, no harassment needed.

The point here being is that it isn't the "third party programs (parsers)" that SE is banning you for in this instance it's because you used it to harass someone. Square knows well that people use parsers and do not care, they just don't want you harassing people with it. But even with all of this there is still not a valid reason to not let a person see their OWN dps numbers. None at all.

"This is something you would NOT be able to do very easily if parsers were officially allowed"

^^ This is nothing more than assumption and there is no objective proof that allowing a person to see their own dps will make it "harder" to stop people from harassing each other. It's a non-sequitur. Harassment has and will be dealt with the same way it has always been.