Quote Originally Posted by Voltyblast View Post
Still the "issue" is that parsers for them could cause toxicity because other games did it and ruined their community
No one has any proof though. They vaguely mention "other games". One can assume they mean WoW, but things didn't get really bad there until Wrath of the Lich King when GearScore was invented along with the Blizzard given Achievements. Basically it was anti-DPS. Because ilvl was king. The higher the ilvl score the "better the player". Funnily enough though I would consistently out DPS highly geared players because I wasn't trash. I actually knew how to play my class and knew how it worked thus I did better. But it didn't matter. You couldn't join groups if you didn't have the achievement (You can only get the achievement by joining groups...) and you couldn't join groups if your ilvl wasn't some arbitrary number set by the raid leader who was usually just looking for a carry anyway.