[dev1058] Say no to the hate meter.

[kukurumei]

You can see what happened when you show the enmity meter in WoW/clones. Developers just work around it to the point it's worthless or completely standard.

In WoW you have fights that are plain old "tank and spank" because everyone can calculate their hate and always be one step above. (aka min-maxing the hate meter)

or

You have fights that constantly screw it up, making it worthless, like hate resets, attack lowest, attack random hate, hate deducting, etc.

Basically it's more or less worthless in hindsight unless they make it a "fuzzy" hate meter. One that doesn't really show enmity, but enmity-ish responses. Usually reserved for animations (which way he's facing etc).

Since FF14 is so cheap when it comes to animations, a fuzzy hate meter will prove useful...though really weird...like a big pointy arrow at the person it's attacking...is practical...but really dumb.