Quote Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra View Post
Calling the community victimized means what exactly? You're showing your bias I'm afraid with that comment. The dev's understand full well what the effects are from the effect they've had in other mmo's. No I don't support parser, not in the least. I think that's pretty evident.
Except they don't know what it has done to other MMOs aside from anecdotal claims. Square-Enix realistically knows about how it influences other games and their communities as much as the average FFXIV player does. There are people who claim for instance, WoW parsing totally ruined it and people are awful, but then there are people who claim that isn't the case, it's great to be able to parse whenever and that people still play as they want.

I'm calling it victimizing because when someone tells me, "I don't want parsing because someone might yell at me," vs "I don't want parsing because I don't want parsing," the former is the mentality of a victim. The latter just means they don't want it. Either way is their right, but I call it like I see it.

My bias is not showing, I have said in previous parsing threads that I don't care either way. I never parse outside of my own static so whether or not it's officially supported is truly and ultimately irrelevant to me. You are just making assumptions and running with them. You say that the "parsing brigade" only wants to see their own side, yet just because I said something in a way you didn't like you suddenly believe I am biased despite having nothing but an assumption. You know what they say about assuming, right?