Quote Originally Posted by DenebPunkin View Post
People have stated a positive outcome.. not positive outcomes. The negatives FAR outweigh any "positive" it "may" bring to the table. You want DPS to get better, have Yoshi P force them to go through tutorials that show them the simple rotations, the positionals required and the weaving of skills between other skills. To assume that by adding an app that throws numbers out will somehow magically make all DPSers better is a false conclusion. And as you said, jerks will be jerks.. and now you are giving these jerks more tools to be even bigger jerks with.
Did you read Stupiduglytaru's post? Because I've also been met with instances like those, where the lowest parsing person will blame a wipe on someone else, and in their instance, thankfully, someone with a parser was there to prove that taru's DPS was the highest. More often than not, actually, the worst player in the group is often the one who has been the first to point fingers after a wipe, or blames their death on anything but themselves, be it lag, a tank, or more often, a healer. Adding a parser would help console players mess around with their rotations in fights to see what gets them the best DPS, help healers see how much they are overhealing, as well as see damage taken, would allow people to discuss why and see what was the problem in a failed DPS check when every member was alive instead of wondering what went wrong, and disprove low DPS group members who point the finger at other DPS jobs for their own lack of responsibility. None of those are "mays", those are all facts that you can reinforce with cold hard numbers. The downsides? Adding a parser "might" make already-toxic players more toxic, yes, but again, that's a hypothetical situation, and many of you are making this situation to be MUCH more prevalent and often than it is actually happening, and the only way to really find out is by implementing this tool to be used on consoles as well. Again, you can still report people for harassment, that won't change.