How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[Liam_Harper]

I don't think people realize that right now public parsers are a thing and legal. People have and use ACT and Enix's stance on that is go for it as long as you don't use it for abuse. The only difference is that it requires downloading a third party program, not everyone knows about it and PS4 has no access at all.

This means a portion of the playerbase has access to your dps and has done for a long while. The difference with not having an optional ingame parser is that currently you don't have access to your own dps or theirs or any other info. I can't see how an optional parser hidden to other players would be more toxic than the current situation. Right now, the abusers have the tools and the rest probably don't even know ACT exists.

Enix really need to be consistent on their stance on this. Either ban ACT outright or embrace the fact that parsers exist and players like having data, instead of this clunky in-between where both they and we all pretend it's not happening and everything in ff14 is happy bunnies and cooperative friendly groups. And if they want friendlier groups, actually do something and crack down on harrasment reports.