Would you like an in-game parser?

[CookieMonsta]

Actually, Preypacer hit the nail on the head on what the example was meant to show there. I don't want to fuel the fire so to speak, but since it was my example and my point to be made I feel I had to chime in on that.

Is the only worth of other players the number they make when they press buttons? That seems like a pretty shallow game to me. Why have a game with pretty graphics, music, story and animations and such like that at all? Why not have a giant black box with boxes all over the place and see how fast you can press the buttons in the right combination to make the number as high as possible?

Until all content in FFXIV no longer have DPS, HPS and Tank checks..... Yes if it means you clear the difficult content you signed up for or not. Otherwise, its a pretty pointless waste of time.

No seriously, I don't get why people simply don't understand that to clear a fight like A3S, A4S... hell even A7S you NEED numbers. You HAVE to burn down that boss HP pool, you HAVE to heal that amount of damage, you HAVE to absorb that amount of damage. This is goal oriented content we are talking about. You have a goal and this is the requirement to meet that objective and a parser is the impartial objective measurement instrument. While it is murkier to argue whether a parser is needed for less taxing content (as most of this stuff is journey/story oriented), my complaint is one of accuracy.

Chances are, the official parser will have access to the internal data of the game thus making the parse a lot more accurate. ACT is an approximation at best and while FFLOGS is accurate, it is also retrospective.

There is also the question of accountability. My biggest complaint for the anti parser people, why are you so afraid of accountability?
Healers + Tanks have had to deal with accountability from day 1, with the kind of logic the anti parser people throw around, we may as well remove the HP bar, MP bar and Emnity meter.