How would an optional, official parser be toxic?

[JunseiKei]

So you see your presence here solely as a PSA?

Even if one may have good reason to believe that, like certain other aspects of the game, the above stance lacks comprehensive thought or is in some way errant, it is worthless to discuss such things, even when that falls well within the parameters of these forums' purpose?

This thread is not titled "Is XIV likely to see an official parser?" The question, if one were to interpolate liberally, is whether it should. And the direct question... is the name of the thread.

I get the realist angle. I do. But your applying your fixation to a question to which it is irrelevant.

I ... wouldn't consider myself a public service announcer, just someone who remembers when parsers were "okay" and then suddenly it was turned super hush-hush.

I also wouldn't say it's worthless to discuss things, only an acknowledgement that there are those here that will argue simply for the sake of arguing (which I'm sure some would consider me on that boat) without care of what SE's stance is. It's also an acknowledgement of not entirely wanting to press for something that has come back over and over with a no (with increasing levels of disapproval or otherwise not wanting to address the subject) from SE's side.

To answer the thread's title: the players are what would make the parser toxic, but inherently, it would not be.

The koike incident is not based on parsing it were some jerks who planned to harrass a person and streamed it live to the world.
6 people griefed an offical staff member by ridiculing her actions and sexually harrassed her, the mentioning of DPS numbers was just a little part of that and not even more than a sideline.

You realize they went into her party with the intent of harassing her and making fun of her right at the start? They didn't start making fun of her just because "parses". They would've done the same without parses. Also, prove that sexually harassing her was just because of parses.

Can you people just stop grabbing anything you can and attaching parses to it, just so you can say "parses are the demon itself"?

I'm aware that Koike's incident was not about parsing, but that does not negate the fact that it was a tool that was used to help accomplish that group's goal. It comes down to jerks being jerks and giving them a tool to give them another way to be a jerk. It doesn't matter it was a "sideline" - it was there and it was used in a manner SE is trying to avoid be used.

JohnSpawnVFX, kindly look at the picture as a whole. Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, main focus or not, parsing was used to attack someone publicly. No matter how you intended to look at it, it puts tools like parsing in a very negative light. One that won't be so easily forgotten by the company, especially given it was one of their own staff members.