Damage Meters

Actually players started leaving WoW during WOTLK when LFD was introduced, and easy mode raiding was introduced.

Then a small minority whined about cata heroics and raids so blizzard nerfed everything then started losing subs by the millions.

WoW losing subs all coincides with blizzard dumbing down the game.

It's not dumb at all. A parser is a third party program that operates outside of the game by "parsing" or seperating out in-game combat logs and doing the calculations separate from the game. This way there isn't a glaring bar or scrolling number log or something on your screen encouraging you to DPS MOAR or Player XXL33t will beat you! and would, in my opinion, create a buffer for those reflex "n00b!" responses.

But if you have a genuine concern, it's always there telling you the break down of what you need to know.

Is this not true with most games though? If you’re not performing at a certain expected level of skill or competence, the game will turn on you, you will fail and the game will cease to be fun.

On the other side of the coin, if you perform at, or above the expected level of skill or competence, the game will reward you for your efforts and you will have a positive experience.

But we all know that it will be used to judge others and keep people that dont do better then the ones using it out of content.

I agree, catering to those of us who actually enjoy a story driven mmo and aren't looking for a competitive sport is playing to their strengths and to the same folks they spent a lot of energy marketing to....they didn't advertise or brand this game as a hyper competitive mmo for the serious gamer who strives to be first to the top of the charts.

Arent there lots of moms for hardcore serious competition level gamers?...... As far as I know this is the only story driven emotion based mmo and I hope they always focus on that and let the hardcore gamers migrate to the games designed for them rather than messing with this game that works so well for so many.....if losing all the hardcores means the game folds that would bebtoo bad but in mymopinion it would be better than losing the current focus.

The problem is, players in WoW were expected to perform far above what was actually required of the instance. Playing a DPS character became more about doing everything possible to inflate the meters than about enjoying the game. Even if bosses were rolling over and dying with no problems, that one guy on the bottom of the meters got berated even if he was doing more damage than the instance was balanced for.

I hope to never, ever see damage meters in this game.