Thank you Yoshi for your stance on DPS meters

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I feel one of the problems is that their focus seems to be on a tool they think might create toxicity, rather than the individuals who are toxic.

It's a bit more than that. It's also a cultural thing like I mentioned before. While other countries like to talk to a player (and usually in a way that involves bickering) the JP playerbase just generally apologizes for their mistake and the group often comforts the player. They move on. If the performance is not going well regardless if it's a tank/healer/dps not performing. They still congratulate people for trying and disband.


In the case of exceptionally (though I'm not entirely sure what their standard is met when they decide that) bad players due to their culture, JP players have a board like 2ch (which is a third party they really have no authority over it) and will name those players. They go out of their way to shame the person including doxxing (revealing address and personal info) making sure that person is isolated from the game by targeting others that may talk with that player and doing the same, They hope that person basically NEVER logs in again or worse commits suicide because of cultural demands and pride.

There was a recent case of this happening to a player which I think SE handled horribly but I digress...

That's not something other the NA/EU player base would necessarily understand and grasp.

I did state earlier as well since people were hyperfocused on DPS, I asked should the meter then be ONLY for DPS, which there wasn't a really good answer, because it's entirely possible that the DPS could be doing the expected damage but it's the TANK (or healer - but they generally have more levity towards whether or not a healer should DPS to begin with). is not doing the optimal rotation and is causing a chunk of damage to be lost. People will blame the wrong thing if it's only for DPS.


Yes, Yoshi P isn't stupid and KNOWS that for the raiding scene ACT is useful, but if you are in a culture where that kind of pressure is baked in you're going to be more sensitive to how toxic it is versus a culture that engages in more bickering but at the end of the day considers harassment minor - and don't go out of their way for the most part to get someone to kill themselves over performance of a game. Like I said earlier the Koike incident that came up in game was a harsh reminder for Yoshi P on how scary that conflict can get for JP. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...arser/ddxxeua/

So do you release a copy of a JP game without an official parse?

I think people misinterpret me for being against parsing and getting better at performance due to how incredibly snarky/negative the replies have received. I'm actually not, but it's the way those replies are being made is why I SEE why we're never gonna get a parser.