Would you like an in-game parser?

[Dzian]

However, they had hidden their rankings, which means they were aware of their exceedingly low performance and instead of being honest about it, had chosen to hide it from others.

That also depends. All my stuff is hidden on fflogs for example. Because the things I'm in on there don't represent a full picture of my performance. There's 2 parses of Susan ex for example neither of which were terribly good long drawn out fights with lots of deaths and things from players not doing mechanics so my dps looks low and paints a bad picture.

Thing is I've done that fight some 70 times so 2 parses out of 70 doesn't in any way make for an accurate representation of my play.

And there's 4 v1s on there 3 are terrible because the whole group was bad and 1 was good.

And even though I do parse myself occasionally I do not upload to fflogs because I generally dont care about epeening my performance. Even the good v1s where I might be 1200 dps ahead of the rest of the group.

But again done that fight I dunno how many times now. So 4 uploaded parses doesn't paint an accurate picture of my abity there either.

In my view if fflogs is going to paint an accurate representation of my ability then I pretty much have to parse and upload every fight I do and to be honest I just can't be bothered with that hassle. And it's also impossible given I also use ps4 quite a lot So I just hid the whole lot simply because it's easier to do.

I know quite a few people who have done the exact same thing for the exact same reasons.

[Taika]

There's 2 parses of Susan ex for example neither of which were terribly good long drawn out fights with lots of deaths and things from players not doing mechanics so my dps looks low and paints a bad picture.

But if someone was to look at those parses, they would see the DPS and amount of deaths of everyone else in that group and would be able to put your performance in that context, right? They can also see when the fights were parsed (if it's a long time ago, you may have had more kills since then). And on the other hand, if you were to have several recent kills in really good parties and still have a really low performance, that would tell something as well. The numbers of course have to be put in context.

Of course people can hide their logs for other reasons than trying to hide the fact they're bad, but in my case example I'm fairly certain they were doing just that. In any case, I don't see any advantage in hiding them for anyone.