Console Players don't need Addons

[Avenheit]

So why do you?

no, they need frame rate XD

[Hysorn]

Does anyone need chat bubbles to play? No. Does anyone need big numbers in front of their skill to better visualize it? No. Does anyone need to see shields on top of health bars? No. Does anyone living outside of US/Europe needs XIVAlexander to play? No.

But all of these things makes the gameplay more comfortable. Chat bubbles makes talking to people in crowded areas easier, big numbers in front of skills makes visualizing when a skill is about to go off CD easier and has been implemented by games a decade older than FFXIV, shields on top of health bars simply makes the information more comfortable to look at in the middle of a fight and finally XIVAlexander makes the game actually playable on countries that Squenix hasn't bothered to add servers to. I mean, you play any job, especially casters or jobs that requires lot's of double weaving at 250+ms and tell me how good of an experience you're having.

But here's the worst part, all of these could be added, yet from the pattern I am seeing here, Squenix is quite masterful at creating excuses to not implement QoL stuff unless pressured. If independent modders can do that, surely a multi-billion company can as well.

[DiaDeem]

Nobody needs addons.

You don't also really need Netflix or Spotify...

[Eclipse4598]

For the accessibility options they provide making doing colour based mechanics a less miserable experience. Could I clear without them? Yes. Would it be a less enjoyable experience? Also yes


Do you need a phone? Do you need a computer? Do you need FFXIV? No you don’t just because something is not 100% needed does not mean people shouldn’t have it

[Absurdity]

I love it when people who don't do that content and are definitely not in a place where they can criticize someone else's gameplay make these statements.

You don't need 3rd party tools on your console? Have you ever actually looked up a rotation for your job? Have you ever looked up what substats you should use, what GCD you need to run on and what gear pieces you should go for?

Where do you think that information comes from?


Ah yes, "learn your rotation by playing the game", because that totally seems to work for all the people repeating that argument. No, freestyling on samurai will certainly not work if you want to do anything higher than maybe extremes.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Have always played on PC. Never installed any mod into game.

Don't know rotation. Learn it by playing game.
Don't know where to stand for mechanics during fight. Learn it by playing game.
Want to know how your DPS compares to other party members. Why does it matter as long as the content is cleared. As a DPS you can generally tell where you stand by your rank on the enmity list. There isn't a need for exact numbers during the fight. I generally see parsers more often used by people trying to e-peen or using it to berate players that are below them on the parse.

The thing is, this only mostly applies to lower end contents. The gap between low end to high end can be seen as ”Nothing really matters.” then flips abruptly into ”Every little thing matters.”, there is no in-between.

In the latter, there is something inherently wrong when a red job is only contributing 10% higher total damage than me, the green job.

Toxic individuals do not need parsers to berate another players. I have seen—albeit as rare as parsers malding—some funny individual that berates a dps for being consistently lower than a stance-less tank in enmity order. Should we take away enmity order list from the game, too?

[VirusOnline]

What if

What if

They don't want you to have that information and have designed encounters entirely around you not having said information?

bruh the combat log.
im dying.

[YukikoKurosawa]

bruh the combat log.
im dying.

Imagine caring about parses in normal content. You assume I go into laughably easy content I've cleared numerous times over giving a remote fuck. Why don't you check how many times I died or failed mechanics, the only thing that actually matters in low end content.

And then after you do that, log off.

[Padudu]

Imagine caring about parses in normal content. You assume I go into laughably easy content I've cleared numerous times over giving a remote fuck. Why don't you check how many times I died or failed mechanics, the only thing that actually matters in low end content.

And then after you do that, log off.

[VirusOnline]

Imagine caring about parses in normal content. You assume I go into laughably easy content I've cleared numerous times over giving a remote fuck. Why don't you check how many times I died or failed mechanics, the only thing that actually matters in low end content.

And then after you do that, log off.

ey this wasn't about parsing in low end content
your entire argument hangs upon the pinnacle of "you're not supposed to see data"
when in fact that data has always been available - the combat log

the game has always been parsing you
does the bar chart make it worse ? xD