Terminology. Why does it bug me and others?

[Ultimaetus]

Communication
1. The act of communicating; transmission.
a. The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior.

Everyone knows what these terms mean, being hipster about it is childish.

[Dianoia]

Communication
1. The act of communicating; transmission.
a. The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior.

Everyone knows what these terms mean, being hipster about it is childish.

Childish
2. marked by or suggestive of immaturity and lack of poise
b. lacking complexity

Ironic.

[sQQuare]

A minority (FF community) is always more protective about its right to be different or what distinguis them for the larger masses, this discussion about DD or DPS etc reminds me of how the EVE community would erupt in flames if you said "quest" instead of "missions".

Not to accept what could be described as "synonyms" in the much greater community of MMO's which expand far wider then any single game makes you small and ignorant.

[Ixsiehn]

oh god, now we have terminology nazis, what has the world come to?

[Cahlum]

The term DPS annoys me but as SE has decided to use it we will go with it. Apart from that we should use terminology from previous Final Fantasy games as you know this is a Final Fantasy game.

[Vektrat]

From what I've gathered and heard DD was only widely used in FFXIV (or more precise, DPS was not used in FFXI).

I've been using DPS in every game, I've seen every person use it, and I'm talking about EQ as well (pre-FFXI); in fact, pally was also used there, before WoW and FFXI.

This probably has to do with your nostalgia and inner-hate (or looking down on non-FFXI players) towards other newer games you couldn't get to play or despised the community.

In fact I hate it when I see "Heal looking for ___" or "Looking for Heal", it not only makes no sense but also sounds really wrong (no grammatical coordination whatsoever?), I assumed this comes from FFXI.

[Cahlum]

That did not come from XI. No one runs around shouting healer or dps lfg
As an example of a shout for an event called Voidwatch in XI
VW Qilin (Do you Need it?) 4/18 WHMx2 BRDx2 PLD NIN BLMx2 MNK SAM (Can I have it?) /tell <me>

[Yahavage]

Someone got really arsey with me when I said 'dd' instead of 'dps.' I lost a lot of sleep that night D:

[Snorgrind]

as for damage dealers i use DPS because Im used to DD being "direct damage"

and pally should be called stunb*tch

[Callidous]

Could someone explain to me what's so terrible about "toon"? English isn't my first language, so perhaps the reason I don't understand the problem is that something is lost in translation.