In competition with myself: a request for PERSONAL parsers

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So your beef with the proposed personal parser is that it fails to force anyone to care about their performance. Sorry to tell you but there is no magic cure for that.

That's not my beef with it. I just dislike things that are only done half-way. There is zero conclusive evidence that a personal parser would be more accepted than a normal parser by SE. You might as well go all the way. Square Enix has the final say-so, regardless of community feedback. Even if 99% of the community said they wanted a full blown, normal parser tomorrow, if the shareholders felt they wouldn't lose money and the dev team didn't want it anyway, it wouldn't be added. They've already proven that time and time again, with many things that are constantly requested either to be shoved under the rug or completely ignored.

Seeing party members' dps is not actually going to reveal anything more about performance than what a player can voluntarily find out by using a personal parser.

This is flat out untrue. The more skilled a Ninja is, the more DPS the entire party will be doing. Do not forget that buffs and debuffs are part of rotations, and that usually doing them as optimally as possible lines up with high and/or good DPS. If a bad ninja is in the same exact party as the good one (more specifically, with the same other 7 people in the same piece of content without the good ninja), the party will inevitably do less damage because of it.

This is a game based on teamwork. It is not a solo-player game.