Final Thoughts

[CorbinDallas]

I'm my experience, you aren't called a bad player for not parsing, you're called a bad player for...being a bad player.

[KageTokage]

I'm my experience, you aren't called a bad player for not parsing, you're called a bad player for...being a bad player.

Some people can be short-sighted and reference a player's past logs on FFLogs improperly and draw a wrong conclusion for it.

IE, I had some rather rudely conclude I wasn't ready to beat OS4 on the basis that the only parse I had ever logged for Exdeath was from my very first sloppy clear where both tank and healer mishaps had caused me to die multiple times. He didn't even bother considering my DPS in the current attempts which was more then good enough (Though that group never actually reached Neo Exdeath due to other underperformers).

I didn't, and still don't actively log parses so anything that's posted is strictly from other players which in turn paints a rather inaccurate picture of how well I actually perform, but I honestly don't care.

[Ilan]

I'm my experience, you aren't called a bad player for not parsing, you're called a bad player for...being a bad player.

But you are not allowed to tell that to a player because that makes you a toxic elitist who only parses to harass others!

To the OP: Parsing is not cheating, its a tolerated 3rd party tool as long as people don't get harassed about their numbers. If people permanently tell you that you are a bad player, you should think about it if they are not maybe right and try to improve yourself instead of calling each and everyone a cheater or toxic if they use a parser because you don't have to parse to see if someone plays bad.

Hunt radars and gathering bots on the other hand are cheating and SE should do something about that but that is not really happening which is sad.