Quote Originally Posted by Alien_Gamer View Post
So who's the bigot? The one that accepts others like parsers or the one that can't accept that others don't?
To requote myself in full:

Quote Originally Posted by Sebazy View Post
And yet, the point that gets missed and brushed over again and again here, is that for every petulant child with a parse window (and likely still going to be an petulant child without said parse window) that's needlessly kicking up a fuss, there's an order of magnitude more quietly getting on with their thing because they just don't care. It's bordering on a discriminatory stance. Bigoted and hopelessly out of touch with reality imho.
Dualgunner beat me to it, but aye, sorry if it came across as me calling you bigoted. That wasn't my intention <3

Rather, I'm referring to the view point that parsers make people toxic across the board, or at least in far far greater numbers than reality.

A better (and less offensive!) way to put my point forward might be as such:

The majority of parser harassment incidents are either here-say (My mate's brother's partner was in a party where someone got called out in Gordias!) or misunderstandings (Aka this thread and my Rabanastre troll). I'm not denying that parser based harassment doesn't exist, but rather that it's not actually all that common, if it was, you can guarantee this thread would be filled to the brim with screenshots of it happening.

On the flipside, I'd like to put this link out there. Note the sheer volume of uploads each and every day. I'd struggle to scrape together a handful of verified incidents where parser data was used maliciously, yet it takes me 30 seconds show literally thousands of occasions where it wasn't, on a daily basis no less.

Don't get me wrong, I love data and it's one of my favourite aspects of progression time, but I do agree with you in many respects. Thus my stance that simply incorporating the 3rd party parser into the game as is would be a mistake. The community isn't ready for that. If we ever do get one, it should be self only and absolutely discrete at least until the populace as a whole warms up to it.