Parsers make you stupid

[ivyblue]

I play monk. Lately in A4 I am trash talked for being low in DPS. Notes for A4 say do not get close to others due to splash damage, that slows me down. Run away from the leg to get the giant flowing balls, one, two balls because I changed to Fists of Earth (oh no the monk is in fists of earth let's trash her), sometimes 3 balls or not oops I'm dead. Yet you, parsing tank are still on the leg wailing away. Then the dolls, oops gotta stop and go save the clerics cause you, the parser buddy of the tank have got to keep that DPS up for your parser. Then of course time for the ride down the tube. It's not about DPS it's about mechanics. Probably why we wipe.

Why not.. Make a cross server blacklist. Make a blacklist that works in the group. Make a mute function so people do not have to listen to being trashed.

I watched a video with Yoshi talking about parsers and saying "We are all adults here" well, NO we are not ALL adults. Even the adults aren't adults.

[Atrious]

Parsers are nice, but give people tunnel vision. I used them in WoW forever. But I refuse to use them here. I enjoy this game for what it is.

[Onikimaru]

Parsers are nice, but give people tunnel vision. I used them in WoW forever. But I refuse to use them here. I enjoy this game for what it is.

Then the people using them shouldn't be using them, obviously. It is fine to use a parser as long as its for personal progression, not to stare at.

[Averax]

It's hard to believe that 2015 was 5 years ago.

[Madepossible]

Yoshida just needs to step up his game and exclude any third party software usage outside the game. As a PS4 player, I would have loved to have a Parser program to see how much dps I pull on a job specific class. Not only will I actually hit the dummy more often, but I will also learn how to maximize my dps to the full extend. I don't care about other people's dps, so basically I don't need to ''see'' their numbers. So Naoki Yoshida, if you actually CARE about your fans, please do the right thing and give us the option of a Parse program.

[Seoulstar]

Yoshida just needs to step up his game and exclude any third party software usage outside the game. As a PS4 player, I would have loved to have a Parser program to see how much dps I pull on a job specific class. Not only will I actually hit the dummy more often, but I will also learn how to maximize my dps to the full extend. I don't care about other people's dps, so basically I don't need to ''see'' their numbers. So Naoki Yoshida, if you actually CARE about your fans, please do the right thing and give us the option of a Parse program.

That will cause A LOT more harm than good Im afraid.

[Ryel]

That will cause A LOT more harm than good Im afraid.

Sadly nearly every other MMO in existence would disagree with this statement (WoW being one such) as this is one of the few games on the market that doesn't actually allow them to be used.

The only reason it "might" cause an issue at this point would be due to the rather large awakening, and subsequent backlash it might cause amongst the players against such features, but that too would eventually pass.

In the end it would actually help more than anything if the majority of endgame is going to continue to be designed with strict DPS checks in mind, nothing bad can come from educating your playerbase.

[Seoulstar]

Sadly nearly every other MMO in existence would disagree with this statement (WoW being one such) as this is one of the few games on the market that doesn't actually allow them to be used.

The only reason it "might" cause an issue at this point would be due to the rather large awakening, and subsequent backlash it might cause amongst the players against such features, but that too would eventually pass.

In the end it would actually help more than anything if the majority of endgame is going to continue to be designed with strict DPS checks in mind, nothing bad can come from educating your playerbase.

As much as I would love to agree with you. I'm afraid most of the people in this community would just simply use it to abuse other players. Oh wait, that is already happening here.

[Ditto]

As much as I would love to agree with you. I'm afraid most of the people in this community would just simply use it to abuse other players. Oh wait, that is already happening here.

I can put the word 'most' in front of things too as if I have accurate statistics of the entire communities attitudes, based off of a couple people from group content, spread out days apart from one another, being douchebags.

Oh, and something or another about a parser they had been using at the time using it's parser mind control effect and turning you're every day nice person into a douchebag. Cause the FFXIV community without parsers is all sunshine and daisies, ya know?

[Chevrefoil]

Sadly nearly every other MMO in existence would disagree with this statement (WoW being one such) as this is one of the few games on the market that doesn't actually allow them to be used.

The only reason it "might" cause an issue at this point would be due to the rather large awakening, and subsequent backlash it might cause amongst the players against such features, but that too would eventually pass.

In the end it would actually help more than anything if the majority of endgame is going to continue to be designed with strict DPS checks in mind, nothing bad can come from educating your playerbase.

And having playing all of those MMO's with parsers, I feel that damage meters (non-personal ones) do much more harm than good in a community. Considering the climate in FFXIV, having an easily available damage meter woudl make it even worse.