Absolute frustration at not being able to see my own DPS (ps4)

[Toguro]

I understand what Yoshida is saying when he thinks the community wouldn't be able to handle an in-game parser responsibly. He's most likely talking about NA and EU. I wouldn't be surprised. With games like DC Universe Online around with EXACT public in-game damage parsers(It gives you the exact number, not a rounded one. It's a calculator), I have a feeling on what the community turn into if it was added. People getting kicked for low heal or damage numbers was a daily thing. Getting fired on for having low dps. There were DPS requirements: "LF Gadgets DPS MUST DO 1.5mil DMG G2G". DCUO was built around the dang scoreboard(parser) and it probably has the craziest community ever.

I can see a personal parser helping but then be easily abused because y'know... we're us.

PF: "LF ilvl195 DRG 1.4K DPS IF LIE KIK AND BLACKLIST"
Join party: "What's your DPS average?"
"What's your DPS average?"
"What's your DPS average?"
All day. I don't wanna hear that mess. I'm fine with the enmity list. If there's an ilvl209 monk(In Savage gear since they do tend to be better than non-endgame 209's. Just observations) and I'm getting more hate on the boss as an ilvl200 DRG, I'm just better. That's that.

I don't really want it that bad or need it. To be honest being a PS4 player and ilvl200 beating full ilvl210 + Thordan weapon guys makes me feel good inside...


And most of them didn't use enmity-reducing skills. One NIN threw a smokebomb on me once... still beat eeem doe. Most BRDs/MCHs and SMNs/BLMs I go against don't use them. I never see DRGs doing Elusive jump.

If you're in Void Ark on... the 3rd boss. You got a MNK in half ilvl200-210, never died once and is in 6th or 7th place.. no parser required that player is just bad..

For those that say an in-game parser wont be that bad, as a veteran DCUO player, played for 3 years, an in-game parser definitely CAN have a bad effect. Remember, the PS4 player base is a very large one, and the ages of these people probably...vary. Not only that, DCUOs community including the forums revolved, rotated, orbited the scoreboard system and it has a big PS community. There were no cross servers when I left(late 2014) and the community...sigh* that community. People were kicked, fried, cooked, virtually smacked or whatever for not doing 1.5mil DPS in certain instances. If you did more damage than a scoreboard chaser(that's a real thing in DCUO... the majority of people even in PvP) then you were kicked, fried, cooked, virtually smacked or whatever for doing more damage.

For those that say parser could help bad players, the scoreboard did not help players in DCUO. Alot of people quit because of it. And also, if that ilvl200 DRG is #4 on the enmity list and no Elusive Jump was seen that day or a heavy thrust or a DRG attacks, what makes you think that DRG is going to go out of their way to use a personal parser? People don't even listen in DF or thank you when you give them help. I wont vote kick a bad player if someone else puts up the vote.. its not right.


I have mixed feelings for an in-game parser.. but leaning towards not wanting one. I have never been called on DPS and have never used a parser because well.. I can't. But adding the parser to PS3/4 is indeed, alot more people with access to that and I'd say console gaming in general can be more "toxic". Not sure though. Never played a PC game.