Gear Score, in my ARR?

[Antipika]

Hey,

Noticed that Gear Score was present on the game version that was shown at 25th anniversary event:



For those not familiar with Gear Score : http://www.wowwiki.com/Gear_score

What are your thoughts? Do you think people will heavily rely on this in order to invite (or refuse/kick) players with bad gear when doing certain events? Right now in MMOs, when gear is being tier'd, gear score (when it exists) or tiers are used in order to filter out players when tackling content. (i.e. : "Looking for 2 DPS for [name of dungeon], T2+ geared only please !")

So far in XIV, this is very rare, no one is asking you to have Darklight armor, relic, double meld etc. to do content.

I know this forum is usually hostile to anything that is "coming from WoW" even when there is no reason to be hostile. But even myself who usually is fine with "WoW things" (and even a min/maxer raider on top of that), I'm not really fond of Gear Score.

Gear, no matter how good it is won't make people play well :|

tl;dr: Gear Score, good or bad addition.

Note: Gear score on the current UI may only be a place holder and won't be implemented in ARR. This is still in devellopement after all. We had luck stat in XIV Alpha, it was scrapped enventually.