Would you like an in-game parser?

[Asmodai]

Why ? Because you say so ?

Because not seeing yourself progress means you may as well be playing a puzzle game or mario paint. There is a reason why no rpg's or at least any rpgs that are even slightly popular do this. Or why damage is listed for every weapon in the vast majority of games. People like seeing it.

Actually, I really doubt that is the majority.

The poll on the front of this page says otherwise. 2/3 of the people who cared to vote voted against your thought process. I'm sure youre going to say "250 votes out of 600k players proves nothing" and I would respond that the random selection of individuals would equate to a valid opinion poll.

You mean how he mentionend several times that he doesn't want to give people parsers because some of them will use this for harassment ?

You can pretend he said that all you want, but it isnt true. What he said is he didnt want to make an official parser but he did say add-ons are going to be put in. As for add-ons with DPS meters he said the below.

YoshiP: We’re not going to say we’re forbidding players to use that kind of tool if they make it, but I think that’s really up to the community and players for that decision.

[Jynx]

The poll on the front of this page says otherwise.

That's a hilariously slippery slope if you want to try and defend forum likes to a objective view of the player base. Even as a guy who has threads with several hundred likes I'm well aware that the forums opinion doesn't reflect the community as a whole.

The forums group is a pretty committed group of players and the type who know what a parser even is and how it can be used for good purposes. The majority of players in the game wouldn't even know what a parser is even if it slapped them in the face. It's these players and the small subsect of core players who would abuse this and use it to harass players rather than use it for personal gains. You overestimate the ability of players to use this tool for good instead of ill.

[Asmodai]

That's a hilariously slippery slope if you want to try and defend forum likes to a objective view of the player base. Even as a guy who has threads with several hundred likes I'm well aware that the forums opinion doesn't reflect the community as a whole.

The forums group is a pretty committed group of players and the type who know what a parser even is and how it can be used for good purposes. The majority of players in the game wouldn't even know what a parser is even if it slapped them in the face. It's these players and the small subsect of core players who would abuse this and use it to harass players rather than use it for personal gains. You overestimate the ability of players to use this tool for good instead of ill.

Well, that's what we have to work with. Maybe we should be pushing SE for an official poll.