Quote Originally Posted by Deithwen View Post
Providing an in game parser is not "allowing douchy behavior". It also doesn't prevent people "To have fun" because "It's a game".
If someone wants to use a parser for their personal improvement, and happen to play on PS4, they can't right now.

And yet you use those statements as arguments against parsers and if there was a logic behind.
No, of course one thing such as an in-game parser is not enough on its own, even as it gives elitists a means to say "This is in the game now, so you better learn to use it!" Can you say in utmost honesty that no such thing will happen? Some folks already try to lord it over other people, which is presently against the game's Terms of Service, and for good reason. Then there is the all likelihood that the one thing--the in-game parser--is part of a slippery slope that I'm sure other more experienced MMO players can tell you about.

Things that elite players and wannabe elitists alike both want added or taken away.

Less time and resources given to non-raid content, save for generic collectibles, fetch quests, et cetera, because the already limited size of Team Yoshi is too focused on providing for the one type of player as opposed to the millions of players who enjoyed the game until that point.

What I stated was not an argument but, rather, a summation of arguments, oversimplified, to yield something resembling my opinion on the matter. From Yoshida's comments on parsers in the past, I suspect that he's in the same line of thinking there. In fact, he quite possibly has more details in mind than I do on the matter, just like other more experienced players of MMOs.

Again, a parse is fine as a tool for self-improvement, but there are people who can and will abuse the parser to the nth degree should we have an in-game parser. There are people already who try with fflogs. Not one person, but several people. Give them an inch/ilm, and they'll take more than a yard/yalm. Once they do, then things will become progressively worse for everyone else.

That's all the more I'm going to say on that.