Summoner needs a fix or a new reason to play it.

[Carighan]

I think a big problem is people care too much about fflogs and damage meters. This game really does need an anti-cheat because the community is extremely negative as a result of obsessing over stuff that really doesn't matter. If you are in a group that is playing the content well, none of this will ever impact your ability to clear content cleanly. If you need a job to be on top of damage meters to enjoy it, maybe you should uninstall the game and spare the people who actually care about what matters your presence.

Oh definitely, but it's also a hard issue to fix.

In games that tried to, players will bend insanely around corners to still try get it done. I've seen everything including OCR-aquisition of the damage numbers above an enemy's head in games that had no easily accessible way of getting the damage otherwise. Wanting to optimize and hyper-optimize is in the nature of players of MMORPGs after they've played for a while.

At the same time, the effect is vastly blown out of proportion, not helped by charts such as the statistics quoted before where most players see this giant gap between classes, missing that they're actually all damn close together, the X-axis just doesn't start at 0.