The Real Problem with Parsers

[pandabearcat]

The real problem is people still don't, after 55 pages of this thread, know how to separate players from tools.

Or tools from tools.

You know what I mean.

And that the problem is players and not parers. Also a lot of playing the victim lol.

[Anze-chan]

That just took me forever to read, but it seems like a lot of people are arguing with nothing but based assumptions on how the community will be reacting to parsers when they are out. I've been playing this game for a while now and I can't believe how SE is spoon-feeding their playerbase on every single level. And if I have learned anything from the past year, it's that SE doesn't meddle when it's a player/player perception issue, they only care when it's game/player issue. Right now this parser thing seems like a player/player issue and the only reason why SE would do something about parsing when reported isn't because it's being used to confront people or whatever, it's because of the third party tool and that breaks their rules. Once parsers are a part of this game officially, people will have to learn to deal with it.