They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[torrijas]

I don't personally care either way as I'm a casual player, but what would adding an official damage meter even change? People who do high-end content already have other ways of monitoring their DPS, so they don't really need it. And if you think casuals seeing how bad they are would encourage them to become better, you're sadly mistaken. If bad casuals were interested in improving, there's nothing stopping them; there are plenty of guides out there to help one become a better player. If they cared, they would have consulted them long ago. Seeing how bad their numbers are won't change anything.

Again, I don't care either way. I'm mostly just confused, because the damage meters are already out there, and whether they're official or not won't change a thing. It seems to me that really what some people want is for casuals to be confronted with their low numbers and then feel bad about them. I'm not going to judge anyone if that's what they want, but if that's the case I wish they would just come out and say it, since I don't really think anyone is under the delusion that "a HEALER's role is to HEAL >!!!" Andy over here is magically going to become competent just because the game told him he doesn't know how to press his buttons.

[Semirhage]

I don't personally care either way as I'm a casual player, but what would adding an official damage meter even change? People who do high-end content already have other ways of monitoring their DPS, so they don't really need it.

Some streamer got banned for having it. Not harassing anyone with it. Just having it. 5chan is babyraging that Japan didn't get world first in Ultimate, so they're reporting ACT usage on stream like a bunch of self-righteous crusaders, and Square is bending to their war cries because it's *technically* against the TOS. Yoshi has WATCHED streams with ACT overlays up. It wasn't a problem up to this point.

And now the toxic casuals are coming out of the woodwork, crowing that ACT has "always" been against the TOS, that anyone punished for streaming it "deserves" it, and all manner of stupid babble. Taking the previous "we'll have our stat tracking over here, you have your casual no-numbers gameplay over there" silent truce and chucking it out the window, going full mask-off and showing us all what they actually think. It's not the harassment they have a problem with. It's other people using the tool at all that gets their jimmies rustled.

Toxic casuals can't mind their own beeswax, and are weaponizing the TOS. May as well make a parser official then, if they're going to be so goddamn childish about it.