They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[Jason_Ashford]

What do you mean "start"? Toxic people have been doing this since day 1, parsers have nothing to do with people projecting their own insecurities.

Parsers don't create toxicity, toxic people will always find a way to be toxic (as is VERY evidenced by this community). There's no reason to be afraid of a troubleshooting tool because some people might use it as a way to be obnoxious, just like there's no reason to remove the inspect function for the same reason.

so your proposal is to add a tool that allows even more toxicity to enter the game? The second that parsing tools are added we will have a explosion of players complaining about being bullied and harassed for their parse numbers. the devs are *never* going to add a tool that will encourage further toxic elitism. it's time you open your eyes and see that what you want is simply never going to happen.

[DPZ2]

Sure thing I've never seen anyone post any dps meters from any content ingame let alone a normal 4man. Plus anyone comparing dps in sastasha is a idiot and has no understanding about the game thus you can just laugh and ignore their ignorant comment "assuming it actually happened"

I have. Back before the wonderful world of cut-scenes in the MSQ Roulette, at least one member of the party of 8 in Castrum posted numbers after the first boss. I assume they got the word to not do that, because they stopped doing so shortly thereafter.

No screen shots. I didn't figure it was worth reporting, and I certainly didn't take a screen shot. (Why should I?)

[Jason_Ashford]

Am I missing some context here or do you think every PF is a prog party?

No, it'll be more the opposite. the majority of pf parties will be "clear" parties with ludicrously high parse requirements or else you're either blocked from joining, or are kicked for even the most minor of mistakes. we don't need that.

[Saraide]

No, it'll be more the opposite. the majority of pf parties will be "clear" parties with ludicrously high parse requirements or else you're either blocked from joining, or are kicked for even the most minor of mistakes. we don't need that.

But that's already not how it works and we have all those abilities currently. There are a ton of prog parties made by people who themselves still need to prog. There are already tons of people getting carried through on reclears because while people see they play like trash it's not enough to want to kick them. There is never a guarantee that the next person filling that slot will be better.

[Kirundo]

so we have players who bully others and gatekeep content from lower skilled players, and to fix that you want to add a tool that will allow even more widespread bullying and gatekeeping? you say i'm the one under a misconception, but you have this delusion that adding parses will magically fix all the problems with PF parties and that we won't have an influx of toxic behavior. you cannot seriously be this naïve .

No, damage meter won't solve any PF problems. It's a useful tool for measuring performance in high content. And as said before I do not agree that we will have "an influx of toxic behavior".

[Hoodcat]

They already do that =p ever been to the aether discord? static recruiting casual, will go 5 days a week 5 + hours a day first 3 weeks most of us have 90 parses in the past.

I see the 2 wipes disband parties, even more now adays people mentioning in the PF they are checking logs. You know there are even add ons that show parses in a add on.

I dont think it would change much from what you see now, sure people will be a lil more open about it but not to the point of extreme people are makeing it out to be.


All this stuff litterally already exist behind closed doors

[Liam_Harper]

Honestly I think we're at the stage where they couldn't add a dps meter even if they wanted to because they've fostered such a strong anti-performance mentality, half their players would probably cause an uproar over it and act like the sky is falling down.

Yoshida simply intended to create an environment where players helped each other and were inclusive, but this has been abused by the "you don't pay my sub, I'll do what I want, anyone who disagrees with me is toxic!" type of player who sees the ToS as some sort of validation that they're in the right, it's a good thing to do the bare minimum because it's FUN and veteran players are inherently evil and need to be kept in check.
Every time this topic is brought up, everyone forgets harassment and toxic behavior are already against the rules. How can a parser create harassment when harassment over dps nets an instant ban? Why wouldn't the GM's handle it?

The game is already very toxic anyway. Instead of a straight up "you suck" that you can simply report and have the offender banned, FF14 leans into a passive aggressive "but you're lv90, you should know better", "ok, guess I'm solo healing lol", "ok, no one else has had a problem with me playing Ice mage, but guess you want to be elitist", "lol guess you bought that legend title" and so on, that's seen as perfectly fine.

[Jason_Ashford]

No, damage meter won't solve any PF problems. It's a useful tool for measuring performance in high content. And as said before I do not agree that we will have "an influx of toxic behavior".

hence why i said you are suffering from a delusion. We have enough toxicity in game as it is without giving more people an excuse to bully and exclude others

[Jason_Ashford]

They already do that =p ever been to the aether discord? static recruiting casual, will go 5 days a week 5 + hours a day first 3 weeks most of us have 90 parses in the past.

I see the 2 wipes disband parties, even more now adays people mentioning in the PF they are checking logs. You know there are even add ons that show parses in a add on.

I dont think it would change much from what you see now, sure people will be a lil more open about it but not to the point of extreme people are makeing it out to be.


All this stuff litterally already exist behind closed doors

and you want to give more people an excuse to be toxic?

[hagare]

I respectfully disagree with the whole argument that these systems create toxicity. Toxic people create toxicity and nothing will change this except for reporting.

And what about the thread? We are having a civil conversation. Or you think that this is toxic?

I didn't say parsers create toxicity.
I said it adds more stuff for dicks to be dicks about.
but if that's what you think we were arguing about. *shrug*
I'm out.