Discuss: Are DPS meters bad for MMOs?

[Gilraen]

It is a double-edged sword.

On the one side we have those who use parsers, be it against the ToS or not (It is, for now.). When they do, they point it out to the player with the low dps which leads to rejection of the player with the lower dps.

You started good... then you said this.

The REAL problem is that the developer, in this case being Square Enix, do not allow parsers so that players can improve and figure out why their damage was low.

Making an official parser isn't going to stop the prior from happening. In fact, it will become more rampant as it'd be a part of the game and it will be expected that people use it to the exclusivity of most other means of learning, like actually running the dungeons. Alot of the dungeons have mechanics that actually punish damage races, that actually require you to spread the damage out and, heaven forbid, STOP attacking! This reliance and abuse of parsers is what Square is trying to avoid and I'm glad for it.