Quote Originally Posted by Penthea View Post
I'm just going to give up on this thread. No one wants to face the fact that parsers are tools that can fuel multiple things, including toxicity, because they're being wilfully narrow minded and only thinking of how it can benefit themselves. I hope SE don't catch on to the "there will always be jerks" justification that allows people to shrug dismissively at the bad side effects of something, because then the game would be headed down a dark path.

Fortunately for me I won't have to deal with much or any parser toxicity if the game gets an official parser because I raid with people I know and it's rare when we pug, and if we do we hold a great majority in the group. Judging from many of the comments here I should also have the attitude of "but I'd use it properly so let me have it" given I can easily avoid seeing the bad side of it.

But clearly looking at the big picture is discouraged so...yea. I'm done. Have fun with this endless argument which has turned into little other than an echo chamber. I look forward to the many clones of this thread in the future. Probably some by Kaiva again as he seems to enjoy bringing up divisive issues.
So by your logic, would you also support eliminating chat from the game? I mean, there's people shrugging dismissively at the bad side effects of it. And you can replace chat with any other feature of the game (PF, Roulettes, Cutscenes in MSQ Roulette, etc)

I can assure that if people took that stance ("but it might cause problems by a fraction of the population") regarding anything, we'd still be back in the Stone Age in regards to development.