New ToS gives hope for official DPS meters?

[JackHatchet]

I don't see why Square Enix would go through all the effort and money to draft a a new Terms of Service if they weren't going to back it up with stronger enforcement. Unless you think it was just a scare tactic, but I don't think Square-Enix would do that.

[Penthea]

I don't see why Square Enix would go through all the effort and money to draft a a new Terms of Service if they weren't going to back it up with stronger enforcement. Unless you think it was just a scare tactic, but I don't think Square-Enix would do that.

Because the ToS is a contract. It enables SE to take actions in any way they please as long as players agree to it, and they have to in order to play the game. It doesn't mean that SE are going to automatically back it all up with a new or better GM service, or a new or better report system. It simply grants SE more freedom to do more stuff. Literally nothing about updating a ToS obligates a company to change or improve their workforce or the software they use to work.

In short, you're jumping the gun. You're basically assuming some changes in how they view acceptable behaviour means they're restructuring the report and GM system in a huge way. When the most likely result is the only change we will see is that GMs will now take action in some matters they before did not, but in the exact same manner as they have been with other issues.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see restructuring and improvement across the board. But I'll believe it is happening when SE explicitly say so. A game company updating their ToS without changing any software or how their workforce is managed is actually pretty common. So unless SE say more, don't expect more.