State of the Game: Personal Player Feedback and Stats on PvE Content [No Parsers Plz]

[Malzian]

So first let me say this -> PvP != PvE

They whole reason stats like that exist in PvP is because that content is inherently competitive and that kind of information is the heart and soul... the ultimate objective of PvP.

PvE is entirely different in that you're not meant to gauge your ability in the same way. Where in PvP is important to know how well you handled yourself against entirely unpredictable opponents performing unpredictable actions, in PvE your handling opponents that have very specific patterns and tells that you need to learn and the measure of how well you did is how far the enemy's life bar went down.

You simply cannot compare a game like Overwatch to XIV. It's like comparing apples to chickens, they're not even both the same class of thing. In PvE content unless you are hardcore, World First min-maxing you don't need all that information and for 99% of the player base providing that information would actually be too much. You would overload people and make them feel worse about themselves in the long run since there is a near 0% chance that they won't look to compare that information if you handed it to them.

The truth is that the people who need this information, they ones who can really squeeze the most value out of it, are already getting it through other means. Whether that means running a parser themselves or having someone else run it for them especially since the most popular one out there gives you all of that information. On top of that, if you have your game client or the server tracking all of this data and presenting it to you at the end of every run you're going to introduce a lot of extra computing work which will invariably introduce lag in the game.

Those are my thoughts on the matter, feel free to agree or disagree, but for most content you're playing you don't need this information and by advocating that we do you're only furthering the idea that this level of detail is important which is ultimately what causes the grief you want to avoid.