I hope they never release a DPS meter

That's just it - modern dps meters are really mislabeled because they do all that, not just parse dps. Essentially, if it shows up in the combat log, it gets parsed and shows up on the meter. Its not just about damage.

Pretty much this

Effective tool creation and use is the only difference between intelligent creatures like human beings and apes. And you know? Some apes are even capable of that. Crows, too.

I can use a knife to cut my steak, or I could use that same knife to stab somebody. Should we get rid of all knives?

Possibly the biggest load of trash I've read on these forums so far.

I've seen so many people throw around the word lazy in their posts when it isn't warranted. Stop having rose tinted glasses and nostalgia tripping about how apparently everything was harder "back in the good old days". The same people constantly spout "Go back to WoW if it's so easy!!". Jesus - This game isn't so hard either.

My signature is my only other contribution I have to this thread. Stop being bad.

You also had a way, way smaller player base who were probably much more passionate about the game. Times have changed, so have the tools we work with.

Gratz on picking up on the most extreem example while ignoring the good replys. Poor show

Thats because its true...

I don't know about this ^ maybe the last gen of gamers but I'm pretty old and have been using meters for over 7 years now. That may be true some time ago but a gamer who's been playing for half a decade or less has always had meters. Meters are now a integral part to any game. Even your combat log is a personal dps meter or a crapp way to compare ur dps to another plyers if u sit and go over results so in a way its already implemented just in a non practical way by the devs.

We get rid of the RPG, if nothing else, unless you want to roleplay a calculator. Obsessive quantification has replaced the way numbers connect you to the action, as they turn into the action itself. What used to be a game of adventure, turns into a game of numbers. And that's no longer a fair representation of traditional adventure, it's a fair representation of a genre that has turned into a game of numerical dissection.

Numbers was always supposed to connect you to the action, but now the action is dictated by numbers. Which kills off anything but a red line going from A to B. It becomes a linear track, following the shortest route possible. And so dies the spirit of adventure, drowned by the calculated approach. And yet, interaction holds room for so much more, all killed by the mechanical approach.

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So you are telling me that we can discard interest and passion, and go for the most mindless approach instead, relying on tools, webpages and the work of others, instead of playing the game and find out for ourselves? The times have indeed changed.

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