Why are low standards for dps acceptable?

[Lego3400]

The more I think back about it, the more I'm amazed that such mentality is stronger in sub-based games than in free to plays. For all my experience in F2P, I have never met a player not performing at the max they could. Some had strange or atypic builds BUT they were trying their utmost because they didn't want to be a bother to other players.

On the contrary, every sub-based game I tried is plagued with slackers. Why is that ? Do people enjoy paying 15$ a month to NOT play a game as greatly as they could when they do it for free ? What the heck ?

People that play F2P games tned to enjoy a much grinder game. Techinally speaking a player of this game could avoid the grind almost entirely if they don't level up extra classes or instead level alts instead. The only times you would need to grind are really the exp droughts at high levels. I personally play this game for it's story, which is above and beyond many other recent FF games due to being a bit more "Classic" in nature. The fact that it's fun to play and I have an excellent FC based around a single common trait most of us share only makes it more fun.

And yet we're getting training halls which are a dps meter, although not a precise one. SE's actions contradict your claims here.

What is condemned and banned concerning parsers is NOT their use (all of the raiding groups publicly use them and show them on clear vids and such) but when you use it to trash someone else. Which is just being a dick anyway and would get you banned for harassment all the same

The training halls would be for the Personal improvment crowd I mentioned. They're still actively against showing you other players numbers for the exact reasons I mentioned.