They Should Add An Official Damage Meter With One Condition

[Avenger]

People seem to not understand yoshi has never once changed his position on damage meters. He seen in another game what it can lead to and does not want it here. It's a horse thats been beaten to death since 2.xx patch series. If it hasn't change since then, don't expect it to anytime soon..

As I understand it, they (devs and/or Yoshi-p) did suggest early on (e.g. at fanfest 2014 or something) that they were considering a client-side scripting/add-on feature for FFXIV (which may have even been in development at the time, e.g. allowing users to write lua scripts which would be executed by the FFXIV client) and that it would enable the creation of DPS meters as well as quality of life features. Post ARR however, they 1) never delivered that feature and 2) made it abundantly clear on multiple occasions that they never intend to provide a DPS meter because, although certain players would enjoy it and possibly benefit from it, Yoshi-p and company are 100% convinced (based on evidence from other MMOs as well as their own thinking over many years) that it would be used for bullying, exclusion, and even more of an overemphasis on efficiency, and therefore can never be added to FFXIV as an official or permitted feature.

In spite of groups of vocal players beating the dead horse for many years, they have not changed their position and are probably unlikely to. The closest thing we're likely to see is Stone/Sky/Sea type DPS challenges.