Quote Originally Posted by origamikitsune View Post
Cons:
Easy Mode / You don't have to learn your job as well / The game plays itself
It encourages people to watch numbers instead of the game
What is the point of even having hate, if everyone knows what it is?
*It doesn't make the game easy mode, it's just displaying information.

*If anything it more easily gives players an accurate means of seeing how well they are playing their class/role in terms of enmity generation.

*You have to glance at the meter for half a second and you know what's going on. That's like saying because a car has a speedometer it encourages you to watch that instead of the road.

*What's the point? So everyone knows. Whether or not they displayed it in-game, if the info was made available people would generally have a good idea if they wanted to.

Even if you know what the numbers are you still have to then act on that information and appropriately manage your hate. It's not like seeing a number does anything aside from inform you. With that information you then have to make the conscious decision to generate more or less hate or maintain your current rate. If you're gaining too much you have to use skills to lower it or slow down your attacks. You still have to know how to do that, people who don't aren't going to make good use of the information.