I just wanted to point out a double standard...

[Althea]

To be honest, you're not going to find a very reasonable reply here. FFXIV is this really awkward combination of modern MMOs, and a final fantasy MMO. I'm kind of with the OP on this one, though.

This game has DPS checks, with content that's moderately difficult. If somebody was to tell me I wasn't doing enough DPS, it's going to actually mean a lot more to me to give it a value. For example "your dps is too low" tells me very little. If somebody told me "you're around 200 dps, when we really need 400 dps to down this boss", then I know how much I need to improve by. If I actually have a DPS meter, I have a way to measure my own performance, and gives me a way to actually determine if using a different rotation, or gear sets gives me more or less DPS.

I understand that a fair amount of the community just kind of wants to loldps and do content for the story, but if you're going to make fights with DPS checks, then tools to know how much DPS you're actually doing seems really invaluable. I heard they where going to let us measure our DPS on target dummies - which is nice, but target dummies don't fight back. They don't put fire under your feet, they don't force you to target switch, or AOE. So really, this isn't a good compromise.

tl;dr: If the game's going to have DPS checks, then having a way to measure DPS makes sense. If they don't want DPS meters, then they should remove the DPS checks on bosses.