Quote Originally Posted by Bobby66 View Post
Another issue is the game devs do foster this toxic causal mindset with their design choices. I understand that normal content should be able to be completed by a majority of players, but said content should not be able to be cleared with multiple players under performing. The reality is in FFXIV the standard of play that is view acceptable is clearing the fight. You could be dead on the floor the entire fight and the game will treat and weigh your into the same as other and thus count it is as a success.

Parsing at the core goes against this design choice. Induvial accountably when it comes to level of play is something SE has shown they do not want to foster in general community. Parsing will never been approved just due to this mindset alone. Putting aside the toxic issues and everything else.
Yep. Exactly. So instead, we have the process that's in vogue on the JP servers: silently disband, blacklist, be as passive-aggressive as you can because passive-aggression is seen as a virtue in FFXIV. Offering to assist someone? DON'T YOU DARE, HOW DID YOU KNOW THEY WERE UNDERPERFORMING, BAD!!1! Much better to snot something about the *party* being underperformers, and leave in a flounce. That's the TOS-respecting way to do it.

The former helpful approach? That happens in statics all the time. When you aren't forced to walk on eggshells around people because of a stifling TOS, you can actually learn and improve things. And who does the TOS force people to walk on eggshells around? Well, it prescribes punishment for calling out anyone for underperforming. Starts with a "T" and ends with an "oxic casuals".

This recent bit of drama is just something else. Before, You Don't Pay My Sub was the law of the land. Okay, you refuse to improve or seek out any information about improving and I can't make you, random stranger. Weird flex, but that's acceptably defined boundaries. Now it's "tools for improvement should be reported wherever they're seen, and the punishment doled out is justice served". Ah, you guys don't just not want knowledge, you want to destroy it in other people. You're zealous fanatics now. Got it. *sigh* okay, I'm done with these neurotics. I've had enough of the insane coddling for this neurosis codified into the TOS.