Quote Originally Posted by Semirhage View Post
And so instead, we have the toxic casual playerbase demanding that nobody be *allowed* to crunch their numbers, lest the sky fall.

The point of what I said, which flew right over your head, is that the toxic casual community is fantastically hypocritical in their need to play a videogame, complain -endlessly- about letting people enjoy the parts of it they enjoy, and then immediately turn around and scream BURN THE WITCH! The moment someone dares to, oh, I dunno, enjoy playing something in a different way

The evil "elitist" wants to tabulate their numbers as part of a quest for improvement. A toxic casual wants to prevent the evil elitist from doing this, because that quest for improvement may make them look *gasp* incompetent by comparison. That's literally it, all else is what-if fearmongering that conveniently ignores both the fact that harassment is ALREADY against the TOS, and that toxic casuals blithely bitch about "elitists" all the time without censure.
IMO most people don't want meters in game because they would actually realize how terrible they are playing. Which is meaningless in normal content since who cares, tanks and healers can duo it together. But still when you see somebody doing 47% of the damage in a dungeon where as you are hovering somewhere around 20ish% you might be cursed with the thought that you might be doing something wrong.