Change DPS forever, this cannot continue.

[DragonFlyy]

DPS is Damage Per Second.
Thats not a role, thats an action/verb.

All other classes are named by their role not what they do in it.

Please change DPS to DD.

DD - Damage Dealer.

The purpose of a language is to get other people to understand you. DPS has been the term since Everquest days. We all know what DPS means. DPS is both a noun and a verb. Language evolves.

I fear that moniker has been hijacked since it was first introduced in...UO I think? Back in EverQuest it just meant your character. We also used Damage Dealer, too, since that was ye olden times before parsers were really a thing and the damage of the party was not as important since the tank, healer, and crowd control were much more important. We actually used to make fun of people if they just zerged something like when a bunch of guilds got together and tried zerging The Sleeper by dying and respawning over and over and over. It is funny how things like that evolve.

Started EQ in 1999 when it released and on my server we used DPS not DD.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

Language evolves.

And some of those mutations are horrible, disgusting, ilogical, unethical and deserve nothing but to be exterminated, relegated to the millions of dead words. DPS is one such a thing.

Plus at this point, you're not fighting only against FFXIV users on this, you're fighting almost all of gaming.

Reason and truth are not popularity contest.
Imagine that, gamers and the gaming industry being wrong, what a surprise.