DPS: Why is it so dang taboo?

[Genaxx]

If you asked me when I was six who the fastest person on the planet was, I would have told you it was me. I ran like the wind and I knew it, and when you run without a stop watch or against other people you take it as fact. It wasn't until my first track meet as a kid that I found out maybe I could improve, mostly cause coming in third and seeing the backs of two other people ahead of you makes it rather obvious. We don't have that in XIV, cause outside a third party tool we are racing ourselves and winning to the surprise of none. The game needs a way to tell people their results, even if it's a score card handed out by the server after exiting the dungeon.

Motivation doesn't mean much if you already think you're at the top of your game. What we have now thanks to a lack of feedback from the system is a bunch of people thinking they are a carpenter, but they are putting in screws with a hammer.

I believe this is the real issue, lack of feedback from the game. No one has ever been shown that they are performing badly whether that be from parsers, a grade at the end of a dungeon, based on the current party or the server average. It's the mentality of 'well i've never been told I was a bad player so theres nothing wrong'.

They need to see hard facts from the game, not people they're paired up with in the DF otherwise its just seen as an attack. You never hear scoreboards being toxic or elitest do you?

Im sure if anyone run dungeons and saw at the end of almost every run;
'Average DPS rank for your class: B'
'Your DPS rank: E'

They would start to think wow it wasn't people just being nasty, i'm doing quite badly compared to everyone else, I should step up my game.

And I believe that this shouldn't be something optional like S3. It should be private to the player at the end of every instance based on your job, level, ilvl and the server/data center average.