Lack of damage meters is why this game is getting boring

As far as swtor's survival is concerned addons are needed to continue to maintain its "hardcore?" demographic. Without something to measure your performance against someone else takes away the competitive aspect of pve and leaves you only to be judged by the quality of your gear which is not an accurate observation.

Each day I find myself logging on less and less. A few weeks ago I was taking time off from work to play. Now I log on to do my pvp daily and that's about it.

I think it all boils down to this: I've already decked myself out in Champion gear. I've already done a fair share of the end-game operations. It's all boring now because there's no competitiveness. I need to feel like I'm competing to have fun, either against myself or others.

For operations, I already feel like I'm doing the best I can do, but I really have no idea how good that is. Bosses die, so I know it's good enough, but knowing that I'm "good enough" isn't all that satisfying. It's like taking a test, and the teacher telling me "You passed" instead of "You got a B". If I'm going to spend time preparing for and executing something, I want to know exactly how well I did.

For pvp, the only way to be competitive is to either compare medals or damage at the end, which we know is skewed data. There sorely needs to be some sort of ranking or rating system, where you move up if you win, and down if you lose, and then try to match warzones in a way that it's an even match based on these ratings. The current system of a plain ole' FIFO (first in, first out) queue leads to randomly balanced games, which makes some games too easy, some games impossible to win, and some games just right. This may not be the best solution, but the completely randomly balanced games has to go.

For operations, I already feel like I'm doing the best I can do, but I really have no idea how good that is. Bosses die, so I know it's good enough, but knowing that I'm "good enough" isn't all that satisfying. It's like taking a test, and the teacher telling me "You passed" instead of "You got a B". If I'm going to spend time preparing for and executing something, I want to know exactly how well I did.

You can just measure your competitiveness (is this even a real word?) by following websites that tell which guilds have killed what bosses and when.

Or were you talking about it within a raid? I've never seen anything good come out of within a raidgroup competition. It only leads to stupid mistakes when people just want to top the meters.

Imagine in the olympics 100m sprint, they didnt time the people......... well by some peoples arguements here we can just say... uhhhhhhhhhh we dont need it we can obviosly see who won

I don't care about world firsts or all that jazz. What I care about is bringing as much to the table as I possibly can when I walk into a raid. For short I want to be as useful to the party as possible. And allowing me to measure the dps I put out with different rotations, different builds and etc allows me to bring that kind of quality to the group.

Not having a dps meter is like not asking for a carfax report.