Quote Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH View Post
My apologies, but seeing as people are already trying to kill any sense of meaningful support in favor of keeping incredibly blase higher numbers buttons with the new cross class system, I have very little expectations that dps meters would be used in anyway that would be constructive. But hey, I have no faith in the community whereas you seem to.
I'll trade you my faith in community for your faith in development, if you've still got it.

Seriously though, I don't think there's anything bad to come of making a game's playerbase more realistically informed and accountable. I will agree however that information accelerates change, and one (less attractive portion) of such is the narrowing of choices considered feasible. As conventions become more deeply established I will also agree that playerbases seem to somehow lose common sense or adaptability as soon as anything occurs outside of said conventions.

But, I'd argue that a playerbase that can better make use of information is also more capable or thinking for themselves, and adapting said thinking. Increased information may be a double-edged sword to some degree, but the its progression is by no means fatalistic.