Quote Originally Posted by Hayward View Post
You'd be wrong to draw that conclusion. However, someone ruining other people's enjoyment based on the slightest difference in DPS would fit the description of hyper-competitive to the letter. I'm no different from many normal gamers when it comes to wanting to make improvements wherever I can. Where I part company is the "dodgeball" mentality that poisons online communities (and school communities, for that matter).
People have said multiple times that they don't care about slight differences in DPS, and they definitely aren't out to ruin someone's enjoyment over it. I know that there's a few people out there that will sit and berate others in stupid stuff like Expert dungeons for doing low DPS. Those people are few and far between, though. Most people that use parsers don't do that. At worst they roll their eyes, maybe bitch to their FC or linkshell a little about getting 'that guy' in DF. I know I don't speak up about people underperforming unless it's actually keeping us from clearing the content (yes, it's even happened in Expert Roulette).

In short, I'm speaking about people who don't know--or, more likely, don't care about--the limits of competition.
What you're doing is painting with a brush that's entirely too broad. Or you're backpedaling. I can't decide which.

Quote Originally Posted by Andrea View Post
He comes across as being a hypocrite to me, but that may just be me..
No, it's not just you.