Quote Originally Posted by Welsper59 View Post

Regarding the evidence, uhmm... have you ever played games with parsers and paid attention to group chats or shouts? Have you ever played WoW back in the day? Have you ever paid attention to the constant bickering that happens even here in-game about performance? It doesn't happen all the time, but it certainly does happen. That alone could possibly be reason enough for the devs here to not want it beyond what we currently have.
I know your question wasn't targeted at me but I feel like answering it regardless. I have played several games with DPS metres, including WoW way back when. I did experience threats to the point of someone saying they were going to hunt me down, some people saying I should kill myself, etc. I don't think the 13 year old me took that very well haha, but regardless I moved on with my life and that actually got me to look into what I was doing wrong. Not to mention they were very few and far between, other than when I first rolled a Holy Paladin and didn't heal in the dungeon because I didn't know I was supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing, I was standing in every fire possible, but eventually due to people yelling at me, I learned to improve. This has toned down significantly, the last time I played WoW and intentionally tried doing the least amount of DPS possible in a leveling dungeon to see if the community was as toxic as everyone on the WoW forums was spouting, nothing. Nobody gave a rat's ass because it was getting done.

I guess what I'm trying to say, people are going to be rotten about it and that's unavoidable, but it does come with its benefits. I think today's crowd is far too sensitive to big bad mean words said over the internet, but it gives people room to improve. I'd likely still be clicking a 3 button rotation thinking I'm doing fun, when really I'm not. It's not bad to give people that push, right now I'm too afraid of pointing out someone's poor DPS and giving them tips if they're a Ninja due to the fear that I'll get reported and smacked with a temporary ban.

I'm not making this look good for pro-parser side, am I?