Would you like an in-game parser?

[Reiryuu]

Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive? What if some find measuring their performance fun?

So... because some people find measuring performance fun, all people need to have their performance measured even if they don't find it fun? I don't think any of us have said stop using your parser to measure and improve yourself if that's your thing. Just don't use it to measure others if they don't want it done. That's been my entire argument this whole time and many of you just scoff us off as "you must be bad, so you don't want to be parsed."

There are times when your parser numbers aren't going to tell you the whole story about someone. There are some people who will just look at the numbers-- just like the people in this thread who say "oh, anti-parser must be bad player" (and there are many in this thread alone), and abuse it. Can't you have your cake (which you currently do and are enjoying) and I have my cake (which likewise, I have and am enjoying) and so long as I'm not shoving my cake down your throat (let's call this the people who spam blizzard I in lvl 60 dungeons) you don't cram yours down mine (we'll call this the people who rage if you're not at 100% optimization) and we'll call it even?

This happened today. I was about to log out and this soul sent me a tell. if a guy likes his goddamn pancakes, doesn't mean he shouldn't eat them because you don't like them at all. Should we take care of your feelings because you don't like pancakes? Hell no, I want to eat my pancakes.

It's always unfortunate when something prevents someone from having what they want. But he seems to be wanting something to measure himself, not something that will measure others.