An Alternative? to parsers..

[Kyuuen]

Over exaggeration and anecdotes based on heresay that people like to constitute as facts. That's all it is. People can't prove it because it isn't happening to the degree that they claim it is.


They get off on making baseless claims and anecdotal evidence into facts, saying things like "The game will implode with toxicity like the bubonic plague and destroy all we hold dear" if SE releases official parsers.


It's hard to take anything people that are antu-parser seriously anymore.

Yes, here say most likely from people who got to experience the toxic environments that Skada and Recount (parsers) brought with them during the heydays of WotLK (Wrath of the Lich King (WoW)) or some other game. You can hand wave peoples experiences as anecdotal evidence till you're blue in the face, but it does nothing to diminish their experiences and concerns of what parsers could potentially bring into XIV.

And seeing as Yoshi has expressed equal concern about parsers, I'd say he's all to familiar with the concerns that people keep bringing up; considering he himself has played WoW for some time, that you dismiss as anecdotal.

[MoroMurasaki]

And seeing as Yoshi has expressed equal concern about parsers, I'd say he's all to familiar with the concerns that people keep bringing up; considering he himself has played WoW for some time, that you dismiss as anecdotal.

This needs to stop being quoted. I may make an entire thread dedicated to this in the future if I keep seeing it. Lets review the reasons why this is honestly just the dumbest argument against parsers...

1. The comment people are quoting is years old. Opinions change.
2. Not everything Yoshi says is true forever - let's talk about how FC and personal housing were supposed to remain separate or how we were never supposed to have auto-demolition.
3. Yoshi's priorities as a game developer are different than anyone playing this game. He wants your money and also the money of a ton of other extremely casual players. If people are getting told they suck after every dungeon they might not enjoy playing as much which means parsers/this grading idea could lose him business.
4. Yoshi's opinion doesn't matter when it comes to in-game culture. We create the culture. Why is Balmung the rp hub? Why are there player-created rules against recruiting in the NN on some worlds? Why have the dev team been forced to tacitly allow parsers on a 'dont ask dont tell' basis? Because players decided these things entirely independent of dev intervention.

Just... just stop this. It is pointless. So obviously pointless.