Fixing Player engagement DEV pls consider

[Penthea]

Also, since this is casual content, if you don't get a medal because others were doing so impossibly bad that run you could never recover you could just run it again, they are not something extremely hard to get or to farm necessarily.

Do not underestimate how prickly some people can get over feeling like their time was wasted because of someone else.

I do not see a witch hunt for players happening if they didnt get a medal because of them in that one Nier raid, although theoretically a player can still receive that amount of hate from simply wiping the raid a million times right now, in which case it is a reportable offense to the GMs of harassment and they already have the tools to deal with those types of toxic players."

I didn't say there would be a witch hunt, but some people would certainly make comments that could easily start drama, and given how SE handle disputes surrounding performance it's very clear that they much prefer if nothing in the game points fingers at anyone, so I seriously doubt they would introduce a system in which it can be super obvious person A won't get gold because of person B. From this alone I would be surprised if this feature was introduced. It would go against why SE are so adamant about not having an in-game parser.

Sure some people use parsers right now and they do lead to drama sometimes but they're not part of a reward system in the game. The game doesn't give you less or lower quality loot because you parsed low. However with your suggestion the game would and if a person feels like it's someone else's fault that their performance is graded low they're not always going to be quiet about it.

Yes we have tools to deal with toxic behaviour but prevention is better than cure. But that's not even my chief concern.

What I'm mostly concerned about is there are so many variables to consider when grading performance especially how someone else's mistake can be the reason why you do not perform well. How do you program software to know that a person didn't stand in the spot everyone agreed on? You can't. Unless the software is sophisticated enough to read the chat and know exactly what the text means but programming something as advanced as this would be a tremendous feat which frankly isn't worth the time and money for something that isn't even vaguely a core feature of the game.