I want a damage meter!

[Berethos]

There is no real harm in being able to study what you're doing. If your doing it to improve then where is the issue? D:

Which is probably why they turn a blind eye to the use of ACT (streamers actively use it, visible for the world to see, and nothing happens) as long as you're not using it to shame or belittle someone. They get that it's a useful tool, they just don't believe in making it an officially supported feature, created and maintained by them. It's even possible that it might be officially allowed as a third party mod if those were allowed, and those mostly aren't because PS4 doesn't allow mods and they want to keep parity between platforms.

Course...guess what other major MMO has devs that refuse to implement a built-in parser, created and maintained by the dev team, because they don't want to enforce dps meters as a way the game itself judges the value of its players? Here's a hint - their company name rhymes with Lizard.

[RoyalBeef]

because they don't want to enforce dps meters as a way the game itself judges the value of its players?.

If you design your game's encounters around having to do X damage in Y minutes, thats what it boils down to tho. Players looking at parses and a player only being worth the DPS they bring is merely the natural, logical reaction to that formula, from the game's perspective it's kinda "working as intended".

[Berethos]

If you design your game's encounters around having to do X damage in Y minutes, thats what it boils down to tho. Players looking at parses and a player only being worth the DPS they bring is merely the natural, logical reaction to that formula, from the game's perspective it's kinda "working as intended".

Which the devs know and understand, and why they turn a blind eye to it in this game and why it's allowed via the modding API in Blizzard's flagship MMO WoW.

The point I was getting across, though, is that BOTH companies do not want to have a developer created and maintained damage meter.