An Alternative? to parsers..

[JunseiKei]

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.

One of the last interviews recently to ask Yoshida about parsers, to which a friend was one of the lucky few to be present, he said Yoshida's face went serious and said, in firm English, "No." That same friend wants in game parsers and he pretty much said, yeah, we're not going to get them just from how Yoshida answered, it's beating a dead horse.

Also, the in game culture stuff you quote is stuff not supported by SE. If it ever interfered with SE's business, they'd ban it. As it is with parsers; you get caught talking about it in game and get reported, you get suspended.

Right now, Yoshida's stance is very anti- parser.

People run into low-performance players EVERYDAY and say nothing to them because its just duty finder.

But people want to hold low-performance players responsible for their mistakes at high endgame content (Extream/Savage/Ultimate).
Is that considered harassment?
Do you prefer that we ignore the bad players and just keep wiping content until they get bored and leave?

Is wasting everyones else time considered OK? /think

Honestly, I'd sooner adopt the JP style of things: if you can't clear the content after so many tries, disband. It's not like I could help someone improve if they play a class I'm not good at, so even if I wanted to help them, I couldn't. However, I also don't want my own time wasted. Just appeals to me as it doesn't break ToS and my own time wasn't wasted.