So this game has dps checks but we can't talk about our dps in game?

[Michieltjuhh]

What you are NOT allowed to do is to use it as a blunt instrument to scream abuse, epithets, obscenities and harass OTHER players.

Parsers have a long and storied history of flagrant abuse and misuse. Yoshi and his team DO NOT want to see that toxicity in FF 14. Neither do I ...having had a gutful of that back in another MMO. Their policy is clear cut, specific and has valid reasoning behind it. I agree with that policy 100%.

You DO have a tool to measure your own performance. You do NOT have the right or license or permission to use said tool to "correct others" or " to educate them". If they wish help, they will come to you, or to others.

Nothing but Square Enix's stance on harassment is stopping players from using the third party parser to do any of the above. And having it as a toggle option in-game to make talking about it no longer taboo (and help the players who are worried about downloading it right now / don't know about it, also figure out their performance), doesn't have to change Square Enix's stance on handling harassment, thus nothing will change.

Use it to your hearts content but LEAVE OTHER PLAYERS ALONE. It cant be any clearer than that.

If a party finder group for a Savage boss has duty completion enabled, with the intent of defeating the boss in the description, and someone joins it and does insufficient DPS to beat the enrage timer Square Enix themselves inserted into the game, then their insufficient DPS should be a valid argument to get them removed from the group. So no, other players shouldn't be left alone if they openly accept being judged by joining a group where their DPS is an important factor to being able to beat the content that group set out to do.