The real question is it really optional once you put it in the game?

I have played several F2P games that have a public parser for each instance and those games can be pretty toxic. But at the same time there are also other ones where you can choose to hide your numbers from the rest of the group, which in many cases you still get grief from others for not sharing.


The only way it could work in FFXIV is if they were personal parsers.