Quote Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho View Post
Not true. Can't you see why parsers would turn a large number of people off? I can't speak for everyone; but, a lot of us FFXIV players came over from WoW, a game which embraces the use of parsers.

It is common to have people post their DPS numbers into party/raid chat after every pull. It is not uncommon to be called a scrub or worse because you can't match the dps of someone twenty ilevels above you.

So, it's not parsers will hurt someone's feelings. It's that they will irrevocably change the game's community and atmosphere for the worse.
I think I'm missing something from your post.

WoW is a game that embraces the use of parsers. So wouldn't a lot of players coming from WoW be okay with use of parsers? Wouldn't they have naturally brought such a community vibe with them?

If you're claiming they came here to get away from the parsing nature of WoW...got any evidence for that? I only have anecdotes myself but a lot of my friends from WoW hate this game's policy on parsing, and left WoW for XIV because they hated the way gear was treated (something about an accessory that has an rng loot drop chance, but can account for 10+% of your dps, I'm not too clear on the details having never played WoW myself).